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
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 - Filippo Berto PhD
Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway - H. Biederman
Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic - W. Dai
Pennsylvania State University, University Park, United States - A. Dixit
IIT Jodhpur Center for Solar Energy, Jodhpur, India - 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
Malmo University Department of Materials Science and Applied Mathematics, Malmö, Sweden - 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 - Hesam Pouraliakbar PhD
Chungnam National University, Daejeon, Korea, 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