American Vacuum Society
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American Vacuum Society (AVS) is a not-for-profit learned society founded in 1953. AVS is a member society of the American Institute of Physics. AVS has approximately 5000 members world-wide from academia, governmental laboratories and industry. AVS publishes through the American Institute of Physics the Journal of Vacuum Science and Technology (JVST A and B), which is devoted to peer-reviewed articles, and Surface Science Spectra (SSS), which publishes articles with reference spectra of technological and scientific interest. AVS has 10 technical divisions and 2 technical groups:
- Advanced Surface Engineering Division
- Applied Surface Science Division
- Biomaterial Interfaces Division
- Electronic Materials and Processing Division
- Magnetic Interfaces and Nanostructures Division
- Nanometer-Scale Science and Technology Division
- Plasma Science and Technology Division
- Surface Science Division
- Thin Film Division
- Vacuum Technology Division
- AVS Technical Groups Division
- Manufacturing Science & Technology Technical Group (MSTG)
- MEMS and NEMS Technical Group
