Celebrating the Early Career Professionals Contributing to the Advancement of Thin Films, Surfaces, Interfaces, and Plasmas

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

The JVST A Young Author Award was awarded to Early Career Professional authors Lucas K. Beagle, Jason Lynch, Peter R. Stevenson, Ly D. Tran, Luke A. Baldwin, Drake Austin, Deep Jariwala and Nicholas R. Glavin, for "Selective vapor sensors with thin-film MoS₂-coated optical fibers".

Guest editors: Dr. Ann Lii-Rosales, Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Colorado Boulder; Dr. Rachael Farber, Kadanoff-Rice Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Chicago; Prof. Sharani Roy, Assistant Professor, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville

Image Credit: Diana K. LaFollette, Kinsey L. Canova, Zhejun V. Zhang and John R. Abelson, JVST A 40, 023403 (2022); https://doi.org/10.1116/6.0001562