American Vacuum Society

AVS: Science and Technology of Materials, Interfaces, and Processing (formerly American Vacuum Society) is a not-for-profit learned society founded in 1953 focused on disciplines related to materials, interfaces, and processing. AVS has approximately 4500 members worldwide from academia, governmental laboratories and industry.

AVS is a member society of the American Institute of Physics. AVS publishes through the American Institute of Physics the journals ''Journal of Vacuum Science and Technology'' (JVST A and B) and ''Biointerphases'', which are devoted to peer-reviewed articles, and ''Surface Science Spectra'' (SSS), which publishes peer-reviewed articles with reference spectra of technological and scientific interest. In 2019 American Institute of Physics and AVS launched jointly a new journal, ''AVS Quantum Science''. Provided by Wikipedia