The AVS Early Career Professionals Committee (ECPC) and The Journal of Vacuum Science & Technology A (JVST A) are planning an inaugural Special Topic Collection: Celebrating the Early Career Professionals Contributing to the Advancement of Thin Films, Surfaces, Interfaces, and Plasmas. This Special Topic Collection will feature articles on all areas that fall within the scope of JVST A, authored or co-authored by early-career professionals, scientists, and engineers who are currently working towards their Ph.D. or within 10 years of receiving their Ph.D.  

Topics covered include, but are not limited to:
  • 2-D Materials
  • Applied and fundamental surface science
  • Atomic layer deposition
  • Atomic Layer Etching (underneath Atomic Layer Deposition)
  • Electronic and photonic materials and their processing
  • Magnetic thin films and interfaces
  • Materials and thin films for energy conversion and storage
  • Photovoltaics, including inorganic and organic thin-film solar cells
  • Plasma science and technology, including plasma-surface interactions, plasma diagnostics plasma deposition and etching, and applications of plasmas to micro- and nanoelectronics
  • Surface engineering
  • Thin film deposition, etching, properties, and characterization
  • Transmission electron microscopy, including in situ methods
  • Tribology