Overview

The International Conference on Metallurgical Coatings and Thin Films is the premier international conference on thin film deposition, characterization, and advanced surface engineering.

Why Attend – 2023

The Conference provides a forum and networking venue for scientists, engineers, and technologists from academia, government laboratories, and industry. Attendees from all over the world come to present their findings, exchange ideas, share insights, make new friends, and renew old acquaintances.

The Conference includes more than more than 90 high-profile invited speakers, in over 50 sessions, across fourteen technical and topical symposia, three special interest talks, several featured lectures, as well as focused topic sessions, short courses, an equipment exhibition, an awards program, and daily social networking events.

In addition, the Conference will have eight technical symposia and three topical symposia that pertain to the development of new coating materials and processes, novel methods of analysis and characterization, and approaches to scale-up for commercial applications.

Technical Symposia topics include:

• Coatings for Use at High Temperatures
• Hard Coatings and Vapor Deposition Technologies
• Functional Thin Films and Surfaces
• Coatings for Biomedical and Healthcare Applications
• Tribology and Mechanical Behavior of Coatings and Engineered Surfaces
• New Horizons in Coatings and Thin Films
• Surface Engineering – Applied Research and Industrial Applications
• Advanced Characterization Techniques for Coatings, Thin Films, and Small Volumes

Topical Symposia focuses on:

• Coatings for Energy Storage and Conversion – Batteries and Hydrogen Applications
• Sustainable Surface Solutions, Materials, Processes, and Applications
• Processes of Materials for Printed and Flexible Film Technologies

The conference draws more than 800 attendees each year with multiple oral technical sessions and a well attended poster session which is a major component of the technical program.

In addition to the technical program, the conference features a two-day industrial exhibition, showcasing the latest in equipment, materials and services used for the deposition, monitoring, and characterization of coatings and thin films.

Why Exhibit – 2023

By exhibiting at the conference, exhibitors will be able to participate in the industry’s leading conference dedicated to the arts and sciences of coatings, thin film and surface modifications.

Attendees visit the exhibit hall often to be educated on new products, services and application techniques that help them improve all facets of R&D, Engineering, Manufacturing, Quality Control and general laboratory operations. This is a great opportunity for vendors to interface with qualified scientists and engineers who are eager to learn more about their products and services.

Organizer

AVS is an international community of scientists, engineers and instrument manufacturers, which strives to promote research and communicate knowledge in the important areas of surface, interface, vacuum, and thin film science and technology for the advancement of humankind.

Founded in 1953, AVS is organized into technical divisions and technical groups that encompass a range of established as well as emerging science and technology areas. There are also regional chapters, international chapters and affiliates, and student chapters that promote communication and networking for professionals and students within a geographical region.

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