Vacuum

Vacuum is an international rapid publications journal with a focus on short communication. All papers are peer-reviewed, with the review process for short communication geared towards very fast turnaround times. The journal also published full research papers, thematic issues and selected papers from leading conferences.

A report in Vacuum should represent a major advance in an area that involves a controlled environment at pressures of one atmosphere or below.

The scope of the journal includes:
1. Vacuum; original developments in vacuum pumping and instrumentation, vacuum measurement, vacuum gas dynamics, gas-surface interactions, surface treatment for UHV applications and low outgassing, vacuum melting, sintering, and vacuum metrology. Technology and solutions for large-scale facilities (e.g., particle accelerators and fusion devices). New instrumentation ( e.g., detectors and electron microscopes).
2. Plasma science; advances in PVD, CVD, plasma-assisted CVD, ion sources, deposition processes and analysis.
3. Surface science; surface engineering, surface chemistry, surface analysis, crystal growth, ion-surface interactions and etching, nanometer-scale processing, surface modification.
4. Materials science; novel functional or structural materials. Metals, ceramics, and polymers. Experiments, simulations, and modelling for understanding structure-property relationships. Thin films and coatings. Nanostructures and ion implantation.

The aim of the short communications is to enable researchers to rapidly share their most exciting work with their colleagues. The expected time from submission to final decision is approximately 6.4 weeks.

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Editorial board

Editor-in-Chief

• L.G. Hultman
  Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden

Editor

• P. Eklund
  Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden

Special Issue Editor

• J.S. Colligon
  Science and Technology Facilities Council, United Kingdom

Associate Editors

• O.B. Malyshev
  Sci-Tech Daresbury, Warrington, Cheshire, United Kingdom
• P. Mayrhofer
  TU Wien University, Wien, Austria
• L. Sabbatini
  University of Bari Department of Chemistry, Bari, Italy

Editorial Board Member

• G. Abadias
  University of Poitiers, Poitiers, France
• M. Anderle
  Autonomous Province of Trento, Trento, Italy
• S. Baba
  Seikei University Faculty of Science and Technology, Tokyo, Japan
• K. Baba
  Nagasaki Prefecture Industrial Technology Center, Nagasaki, Japan
• S. Baragetti
  University of Bergamo Department of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Dalmine BG, Italy
• L. Bardos
  Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
• M. Bartosik
  TU Wien University, Wien, Austria
• F. Berto PhD
  Norwegian University of Science and Technology Department of Industrial Economics and Technology Management, Trondheim, Norway
• H. Biederman
  Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
• W. Dai
  Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, United States
• Y. Du
  Central South University, Changsha, China
• R.G. Elliman
  Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
• A. Erdemir
  Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, Illinois, United States
• A. Goodyear
  The Open University, Milton Keynes, United Kingdom
• J.H. Huang
  National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan
• R.E. Hurley
  Queen's University Belfast, Belfast, United Kingdom
• A. Ignatiev
  University of Houston, Houston, Texas, United States
• K. Jousten
  National Metrology Institute of Germany Berlin Branch, Berlin, Germany
• D.S. Karpuzov
  University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
• R. Kersevan
  European Organization for Nuclear Research, Geneve, Switzerland
• S. Kodambaka
  University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States
• M.K. Lei
  Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, China
• K. Ludwig
  Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States
• R. Miles
  Northumbria University, Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom
• Y. K. Mishra PhD
  University of Southern Denmark, Mads Clausen Institute, NanoSYD, Sønderborg, Denmark
• A.Z. Moshfegh
  Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, Islamic Republic of
• D. Music
  RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany
• J. Musil
  University of West Bohemia in Pilsen, Plzen, Czech Republic
• V. Nagirnyi
  University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia
• H. Pedersen
  Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden
• I. Petrov
  University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Urbana, Illinois, United States
• H. Pouraliakbar
  WorldTech Scientific Research Center, Tehran, Iran, Islamic Republic of
• A. Prakash
  Renesas Electronics Corporation Tempe, Tempe, Arizona, United States
• C. Rego
  Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, United Kingdom
• A. Rossi
  University of Cagliari, Cagliari, Italy
• Y. Saito
  High Energy Accelerator Research Organisation, Tsukuba, Japan
• J.L. de Segovia
  Madrid Institute of Materials Science Department of Energy Environment and Health, Madrid, Spain
• J. Šetina
  Institute of Metals and Technology, Ljubljana, Slovenia
• F. Sharipov
  Federal University of Parana, Curitiba, Brazil
• L. Siller
  Newcastle University, Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom
• C.Q. Sun
  Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore
• Y. Tanimoto
  High Energy Accelerator Research Organisation, Tsukuba, Japan
• D. Valougeorgis
  University of Thessaly, Volos, Greece
• H. Wang
  Texas A&M University College Station, College Station, Texas, United States
• M.S. Wong
  National Dong Hwa University - Meilun Campus, Hualien, Taiwan
• V.E. Yurasova
  Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moskva, Russian Federation
• W. Zheng
  Jilin University, Changchun, Jilin, China