WVU Shared Research Facilities Center Will Host a Free One-Day Vacuum Technology Workshop
Date: Thursday, June 12, 2025
Time: 8:30 AM – 5:00 PM
Location: Engineering Science Building, ESB G83, WVU
☕ Free coffee and donuts in the morning
🍕 Lunch provided
📜 Certificate of attendance for registered participants
Workshop Overview
- Morning: Introduction to vacuum science and system design
- Lunch and Kurt J. Lesker booth: products and career opportunities
- Afternoon: Physical vapor deposition and thin film growth models
Schedule
- 8:30 – 9:25 AM:
- Resources for Vacuum Science & Technology
- Pressure Ranges for Vacuum Science
- Defining Vacuum Systems
- Examples of Vacuum Applications
- Atmospheric Gases and Vacuum
- Basic Gas Laws
- Gas/Solid Interactions
- Gas/Gas Interactions: Flow Regimes
- Mean Free Path
- 9:30 – 10:25 AM:
- Gas Conductance
- Compact System Design
- Vacuum Pumps for High Vacuum
- Combining Pumping Speed with Conductance
- Vacuum System Characterization
- 10:30 – 11:25 AM:
- Overview of Pressure Measurement
- Residual Gas Analysis
- Pressure Differentials in Vacuum Systems
- Seals and Flanges
- Surface Finishes for Vacuum Systems
- Detecting Leaks in Vacuum Systems
- 11:30 – 12:00 PM:
- Detecting Leaks in Vacuum Systems
- Cleaning for Vacuum Service – CRAPP vs CRUD
- 12:00 – 12:55 PM:
- Lunch Break
- 1:00 – 1:25 PM:
- Cleaning Vacuum Chambers
- Tests for Cleanliness
- Modeling of Vacuum Systems
- 1:30 – 2:25 PM:
- Introduction to Thin Film Deposition
- Thermal Evaporation
- Thickness Uniformity in Thin Films
- 2:30 – 3:25 PM:
- Electron Beam Evaporation
- Magnetron Sputtering by DC, pDC, RF
- Sputter Target Utilization
- Reactive Sputtering
- Sputter Yields
- 3:30 – 4:25 PM:
- Magnetron Sputtering with High Impulse Powers (HiPMS)
- Sputter Cathode Designs
- Atomic Layer Deposition
- 4:30 – 5:00 PM:
- Thin Film Growth Models
Register
Registration Deadline: June 9, 2025
Contact:
Trieu Nguyen