Michigan Chapter 

The North Central Chapter was approved in 1973 with the primary geographical area including all of Michigan. It was part of the Great Lakes RAG, which covered Indiana, Michigan and Ohio. It became the Michigan Chapter in 1989. 

Current activities of the Chapter are available on the Web page which is accessed through the AVS Web site. The Web page also contains a list of past events since 1990. The chapter sponsors from 2-6 dinner meetings per year, and a one-day Spring Symposium and vacuum equipment exhibition. In addition, the Michigan AVS sponsors a Michigan high school science teacher to attend the Science Educators' Workshop held each year at the AVS National Symposium. 

The Chairs of the Michigan and North Central Chapters were:

1974

May 21: First Symposium in Detroit with invited papers only  

1975

May 6-7: Second Great Lakes Regional Symposium, Northland Inn, Detroit. Special session on “Application of thin films for energy conversion”. A 1-day course “Fundamentals of Evaporation Methods,” with a fee  of $50. 

1978

May 16:  5^th Symposium on  Vacuum Technology  and Surface Science; Southfield, MI.  There was a vacuum equipment display  and a  1-day course on “Microcircuit Thin Film Technology” was taught by John Skok; registration fee $40., short course “Micro-circuit thin film technology” 

1979

May 22: 6^th Symposium on  Vacuum Technology and Surface Science  with “Surfaces and Interfaces” on  May 23 , Southfield, MI. There was a vacuum equipment display  and a 1-day course on “Properties of Vacuum  System Materials” taught by Bill Brunner.

 1980

May 8: 7^th Annual Symposium. Northland Inn, Southfield. MI. Topics were “Advances in New Energy Sources” & “Advanced semiconductor processing”. The symposium registration fee was $25 for members, $30 for non-members and $5 for students. 

1981

May 19: 8^th Annual Symposium. “Surfaces & Interfaces”, Bloomfield, MI. There was a vacuum equipment display  and a 1-day course on “Adhesion’ taught by Kash Mittal. 

1982

9^th Annual Symposium 

1983

May 17: 10^th Annual Symposium “Prospective Hydrogen Energy Cycles”; Botsford Inn, Southfield, MI. There was a vacuum equipment display and a 1-day course on “CVD for Electronics” taught by Werner Kern. 

1984

May3: 11^th Annual Symposium. Botsford Inn, Farmington Hills, MI “Surface Structure and Modification” 

1985

May 30: 12^th Annual Symposium, Airport Hilton, Detroit; “Microelectronics technology”, The course program included  3 courses “Thin Film processes”, “Vacuum Technology” and “Pumping Hazardous gases”. 

1988

June 2: 15^th Annual Symposium on “Surfaces and Interfaces”, Detroit 

1989

May 3: Michigan Chapter 16^th Annual Symposium “Plasma Processing of Materials”, Greater Detroit area,. There was a vacuum equipment display and 2 courses: ”Mechanical Properties of Thin Films” (Dick Hoffman), and “PECVD” ( Frank Jansen) 

1990

May 8: 17^th Annual Symposium: Ion-Solid Interactions: From Fundamentals to Applications, Dearborn Inn

chairs: Yang-Tse Cheng and Galen Fisher, General Motors 

1991

May 15: 18^th Annual  Spring Symposium: Reactions at Surfaces: Dearborn Inn

chairs: Dave Belton, General Motors, and George Graham, Ford Motor 

1992

June 10-12: 19^th Annual  Spring Symposium : Applied Surface Analysis, An AVS Topical Conference, Univ of Michigan

chairs: Stephen Gaarenstroom, General Motors, and Ron Baird, Ford Motor. Five courses were taught. 

1993

May 18: 20^th Annual  Spring Symposium Growth and Characterization of Thin Films

chair: Steve Yalisove, U. Michigan

Two courses were given:  “Overview of chemical and physical vapor coating technology” and “Introduction  to ellipsometry”. 

1994

21^st Annual  Spring Symposium: Sensor Technology

chair: Greg Auner, Wayne State U.

1995

May 18: 22^nd Annual  Spring Symposium: Polymer Systems: Surface Properties and Characterization , Univ of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

chair: Pete Schmitz, Ford Motor 

1996

23^rd Annual  Spring Symposium: Surface Analysis '96, An AVS Topical Conference

chairs: Steven Simko, General Motors, and Pete Schmitz, Ford Motor 

1997

24^th Annual  Spring Symposium Electronic and Photonic Materials and Devices

chair: Ratna Naik, Wayne State U. 

1998

May 20: 25^th Annual  Spring Symposium: Scanning Probe Microscopies: Methods and Applications

chair: Rachel Goldman, U. Michigan

There was an invited session and 14 student poster papers, two of which were given awards.. The 63 attendees included 31 students. There were 7 vendors in the exhibit. A course on “Vacuum leak detection” was attended by 12 students. A summary of the anniversary symposium was given in the Jul/Aug 1998 of the AVS Newsletter.

Dinner Meeting: Leonard J. Brillson, Ohio State University 

“Changing Roles of Researchers in Industry”

October 27: Dinner Meeting:  Kevin Hoffman, United Solar Systems 

“The Status of Roll-to-Roll Solar Cell Production using Thin-Film Amorphous Silicon Alloys”

November 17: Dinner Meeting :Robert S. Weber, Arthur D. Little Corp. 

“On Board Fuel Processing for Transportation”

December 8: Dinner Meeting: Harry Atwater, California Institute of Technology 

“Engineering of Direct Band Gap Group IV Semiconductors: SixSn1-x and GexSn1-x Alloys”  

1999

May 19: 26^th Annual  Spring Symposium: Sensor and Actuator Technologies for Automotive Applications, Wayne State Univ. There were 76 attendees.

chair: Michael Wu, Delphi Automotive Systems

February 4: Dinner Meeting: Judith C. Yang, University of Pittsburgh 

“Heteroepitaxy: A Novel Way to See Metal Oxidation”

April 12: Dinner Meeting: Jose Rodriguez, Brookhaven National Laboratory 

“Surface Science and Environmental Catalysis: Photoemission and XANES Studies on the Chemistry of SO2 on Model Metal and Oxide Catalysts” 

2000

27^th Annual  Spring Symposium Meeting the Challenge of Low Automotive Emissions in the New Millennium

chair: Amer Samman, Ford Motor Company

February 9: Dinner Meeting Steven Yalisove, University of Michigan 

“Using A Laboratory X-Ray Source For In-Situ Diffraction During Sputter Deposition Of Thin Films”

March 15: Dinner Meeting: Ching-Hwa Kiang, UCLA 

“Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes”

April 12: Dinner Meeting: John Gland, University of Michigan 

“In-situ Studies of Catalytic C3 Oxidation” 

2001

28^th Annual  Spring Symposium Nanostructures

chair: Gang-yu Liu, Wayne State University

March 6: Dinner Meeting: Sinil Sinha, Argonne National Laboratory 

The Impact of Synchrotron Radiation on Nanoscience

April 19: Dinner Meeting: Hans-Joachim Freund, Fritz-Haber Institut: “Deposited Metal Particles as Models for Heterogeneous Catalysts: From Individual Clusters to Cluster Ensembles”

November 6: Dinner Meeting: Joanna Mirecki Millunchick, University of Michigan , “Morphological and Compositional Instabilities in Compound Semiconductor Films”

December 6: Dinner Meeting: Daniel E. Resasco, University of Oklahoma 

“Highly Selective Catalysts for the Synthesis of Single-walled Carbon Nanotubes by CO Disproportionation” 

2002

29^th Annual  Spring Symposium: Thin Films and their Application to Devices

chair: Ale Lukaszew, University of Toledo

March 7: Dinner Meeting: E. W. Plummer, University of Tennessee 

“An atomic view of the dynamic role of defects in determining physical and chemical properties of surfaces”

October 30: Dinner Meeting: Norman Birge, Michigan State University

A Tutorial Introduction to “Mesoscopic Physics”

December 11: Dinner Meeting: Mark Yeadon, National University of Singapore,  “UHV in-situ TEM studies of the synthesis and processing of materials” 

2003

February 27: Dinner Meeting: Harold Kung, Northwestern University

“Designing Heterogeneous Catalysts – How Far Are We?”

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