Taught by industry professionals, AVS Short Courses offer training for technicians, scientists, and engineers in three broad categories.

• Vacuum and Equipment Technology

• Materials and Interface Characterization

• Materials Processing

Short Course Catalog as a PDF

List of Short Course Instructors

Courses that are part of our regularly scheduled3-4 offerings a year are noted below.  Alternatively, many AVS courses can be customized through our Onsite Short Coursesprogram  and taught at your facility.  Don’t see what you are looking for on our current schedule? Then use our Courses by Request  form to make a request. 

An Overview of Applied Vacuum Technology
Fundamentals of Vacuum Technology
Recent Advances in Vacuum Technology
Analysis of Residual Gas Analyzer Spectra
Mass Flow Controllers: Fundamentals, Techniques, and Applications
Partial Pressure Analysis
Total Pressure Gauging Techniques
UHV Design and Practices
Vacuum Sealing and Joining Techniques
Vacuum System Design
Vacuum Vessel Engineering
Controlling Contamination in Vacuum Systems
Cryopump Technology
Operation & Maintenance of Vacuum Pumping Systems
Process Specific Pumping Requirements and Design
Vacuum Leak Detection
Vacuum Pumps
Comprehensive Course on Surface Analysis: AES, SIMS, XPS, and Depth Profiling
Comprehensive Course on Surface Analysis: AES, SIMS and XPS/ESCA
Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry
Atomic Force and Scanning Tunneling Microscopy
Focused Ion Beams: Principles and Applications
High Resolution X-ray Reflection and Diffraction Methods for Thin Film Characterization
Materials and Surface Microcharacterization and Analysis
Scanning Electron Microscopy and X-ray Microanalysis
X-Ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy (XPS): The Basics and Advanced Approaches and Applications
Full Wafer Particle and Defect Detection, Review, and Characterization
Fundamentals of Semiconductor Characterization: Electrical and Optical Techniques
Surface Analysis, Interface, and Thin Film Analysis: The Major Methods
Surface Characterization of Biomaterials
Thin and Ultra-thin Film Analysis, Characterization & Metrology for the Wafer Processing Industry
Hard Coatings by PVD Methods
Low-k and Other Interlayer Dielectrics
Thin Film Nucleation, Growth, and Microstructural Evolution
Transparent Conducting Oxides: Their Science, Fabrication, Properties, and Applications
An Introduction to Ion Beam Coating Deposition Techniques
An introduction to Ion Sources: Principles and Techniques
Application of Residual Gas Analysis in Thin Film Processes
Atomic Layer Deposition
Atomic Layer Deposition: Fundamentals, Chemistry and Applications
Basics of Radio Frequency Technology
Chemical Mechanical Planarization for Microelectronics Manufacturing
Cleaning and Surface Conditioning Techniques for Integrated Circuit Manufacturing
CVD for Microelectronics
Ion Implantation: Fundamentals, Process Controls and Advanced Applications
Ion Implantation Processing
Optical Diagnostic Techniques for Plasma Processing
Photolithography Process in IC Production
Physical and Chemical Vapor Deposition
Plasma and Ion Beam Diagnostics: Principles & Applications
Plasma-Enhanced CVD: Fundamentals, Techniques, and Applications
Plasma Etching and RIE: Fundamentals and Applications
Reactive Sputtering and Deposition
Sputter Deposition
Surface Preparation for Thin Film Deposition
Thin Film Deposition by Evaporation
Thin Film Deposition by Sputter Processes
An Introduction to Nanomanufacturing and Nanotechnology
Copper Interconnect Technology
Micro-electromechanical Systems
Nanotribology and Nanomechanics and Applications to MEMS/NEMS and BioMEMS/BioNEMS
Photovoltaics: The Engineering, Technology and Application of Solar Cells
Semiconductor Contacts: Their Science, Fabrication, and Characterization
Semiconductor Device Manufacturing Overview
Technological Aspects of Metal/Semiconductor Contacts

Questions? Contact Heather Korff, heather@avs.org, 530-896-0477