AVS National Online Short Course Program Now Available!

AVS has been offering online training for technicians, scientists and engineers during COVID-19 with great success and reduced fees! If you are not able to travel due to restrictions, consider online training with us. While we hope to return to in person training AVS is bringing seven (7) AVS Short Courses and our qualified instructors to you via Zoom for our AVS National Online Short Course Program!
Cost Per Course (1-Day/2-Day):

Platform: Zoom

Times listed are Eastern Daylight Time (EDT). Check your timezone!

Each course will include a link to a pdf file of the copyrighted course notes. During the online course you may ask questions. Instructors will review and answer them periodically throughout the course. 

You must be present the day of the course, recorded versions are not available.

Course Cost

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Plasma Etching and RIE: Fundamentals & Applications
(1 or 2 day option: Day 1-Fundamentals; Day 2-Applications)

Date: Tuesday, September 14, 2021 (Day 1: Fundamentals)
           Thursday, September 16, 2021 (Day 2: Applications)
Time: 10:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. EDT
 
Course Objectives
  • Know the basic concepts of plasma etching.
  • Understand the physics of RF glow discharges (both high and low density).
  • Understand the surface science aspects of reactive ion etching (RIE).
  • Learn about plasma-surface chemistry leading to etching.
  • Recognize the factors that influence etching anisotropy.
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Instructor
Randy Shul
Technical Staff
Sandia National Laboratories

Vacuum System Leak Detection and Basic Troubleshooting

Date: Wednesday, September 15, 2021
Time: 10:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. EDT
 
Course Objectives
  • Real vs virtual leaks
  • Leak rate specifications
  • Different leak detection methods
  • How a mass spectrometer leak detector works
  • Care and feeding of a mass spectrometer leak detector
  • Basic ways to use a mass spectrometer leak detector
  • What to do when a leak is found
  • Possible steps when a system passes leak test but has sub-par performance
  • Sources of gas that can affect vacuum system performance
  • Ways to mitigate gas sources
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Instructor
Neil Peacock
Consultant, Pine Place Consulting, LLC

Atomic Layer Deposition

Date: Friday, September 17, 2021
Time: 10:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. EDT
 
Course Objectives
  • Learn the fundamentals of ALD based on sequential self-limiting surface reactions.
  • Understand the important advantages of ALD and comparison with CVD.
  • Learn about ideal and non-ideal ALD and thermal and plasma-enhanced ALD.
  • Understand how ALD surface chemistry and growth are studied using in situ probes.
  • Learn how ALD can be utilized for thin film nanoengineering.
  • Understand the many current and potential applications of ALD.
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Instructor
Steve George

Professor, Dept. of Chemistry and Biochemistry
University of Colorado at Boulder

Vacuum Pumps: An Introduction to their Operation and Maintenance

Date: Monday, September 20, 2021
Time: 10:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. EDT
 
Course Objectives
  • Learn about the types of commercially available vacuum pumps and their performance specifications.
  • Learn how each pump works and what maintenance is required.
  • Understand how to select a pump or pumps for a given application.
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Instructor
Tim Gessert
Managing Member
Gessert Consulting, LLC

Controlling Contamination
in Vacuum Systems

Date: Tuesday, September 21, 2021
Time: 10:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. EDT
 
Course Objectives
  • Understand the three phases of vacuum chamber contamination: gases, films, and particulates.
  • Learn the origins of vacuum chamber contaminants and methods for controlling or eliminating them.
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Sputter Deposition

Date: Wednesday, September 22, 2021
Time: 10:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. EDT
 
Course Objectives
  • Understand the fundamentals of sputter deposition
  • Review and discuss options for sputtering system design
  • Learn how rf sputtering differs from dc sputtering and understand how rf sputtering works
  • Understand reactive sputtering
  • Understand thin film properties are modified by adjusting sputtering parameters
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Instructor
Angus Rockett
Head for Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering
Colorado School of Mines

Analysis of Mass Spectrometer (RGA) Spectra

Date: Thursday, September 23, 2021
Time: 10:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. EDT
 
Course Objectives
  • Provide the basic knowledge required to interpret mass spectrometer (RGA) data, in vacuum applications ranging from UHV to atmospheric pressures.
  • Presentation of elementary atomic electron structure
  • Describe the filling of the electronic shells and sub shells
  • Discuss molecule formation and the different types of molecular bonds
  • Discuss operation of a mass spectrometer including its major components, i.e. ion source, mass separator, and detector and especially phenomena that occur in the ion source
  • Discuss interpretation of the mass spectrometer spectra by presenting typical spectra for many common molecules and analysis of gas samples containing many different molecules
  • Various types of analysis techniques are presented and many existing data bases are suggested
  • Discuss chemical interactions between mass spectrometers and the sampled gases
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Instructor
Gerardo Brucker

Chief Scientist and CTO
Granville-Phillips Division of MKS Instruments

Other AVS Events

AVS Southern California Chapter Short Course Program (IN PERSON)
September 27-29, 2021
Holiday Inn Buena Park
Buena Park, CA

  • An Overview of Applied Vacuum Technology (9/27-28/21)
  • Vacuum System Design (9/29/21)

REGISTER HERE!

AVS Mid-Atlantic Chapter Short Course Program (VIRTUAL)
November 11, 2021
Platform: Zoom

  • A Semiconductor Device Manufacturing Overview 

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AVS Courses by Request

If you are interested in seeing an AVS Short Course offered in 2022 please complete the AVS Courses by Request form.

AVS Onsite/Online Training
Do your employees need training now? Are budgets tight? Let AVS bring our short courses and qualified instructors to your organization during these tough economic times via Zoom. Please complete the AVS Onsite/Online Training request form to receive a proposal.

 

AVS e-Talk: Soft Electronic and Microfluidic Systems for the Skin
October 5, 2021
1:00-2:00 p.m. EST
Instructor: John Rogers
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AVS e-Talk: What Limits Solar Cell Efficiencies?
Guide for the Perplexed to the Shockley-Queisser Model

November 9, 2021
1:00-2:00 p.m. EST
Instructor: David Cahen
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Area-Selective Deposition
December 9, 2021
1:00-5:00 p.m. EST
Instructor: Adrie Mackus
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