EDITORIAL OVERVIEW

The publisher's policy is to run a ratio of 70 -75 percent editorial in each issue. This is probably the highest edit/advertising ratio of any major trade magazine in the country. Every issue contains a column on Thin Film Technology by Dr. Peter Martin of Battelle PNL Labs (recently retired), and a bi-monthly vacuum column by Dr. Robert Langley of Oak Ridge National Laboratory (retired). Each issue also contains two Educational Guides provided by Dr. Martin and Dr. Steven Hansen on processing and technology respectively. Another popular contributor to the magazine is Kimo Welch, a well-known teacher and authority in the vacuum field. "Kimo's Corner" has been a column that always contained new ideas and revelations about events and technology in the market, and is now being rerun from the magazines' archives to provide this wealth of information to new readers. A team of experts from Notre Dame University (Dr. Abhijit Biswas) and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, (Dr. Ilker S. Bayer) provide an outstanding regular column on nanotechnology. A recent addition to the editorial staff, Stanley Goldfarb, who's been in the industry for more than thirty years provides a great new column titled "Ask Stan" that covers a wide variety of emerging technology subjects. And other well-known authors and educators, Dr. Slava Zhurin and Dr. Robert Castellano provide a regular contribution of high quality articles on Optics, Plasmas, Solar and Lighting.

Our Executive Editor Peter Martin also contributes many fascinating papers on many aspects of thin film coatings and technology, as do all of the team listed above. Peter is considered one of the leading experts in the industry. He has already launched a complete series of sixteen monthly papers, each covering a specific different method of performing metal deposition.

In addition, several feature articles appear each month, contributed by scientists and professional engineers in many industries. These articles cover physical vapor deposition (sputtering, evaporation, arc coating, etc.), deposition materials, metrology, testing and inspection, vacuum components, and many other areas related to either vacuum processing or technology. New Products, New Literature, Industry News and Product Roundups are also included in virtually most issues.

2011 CALENDAR OF EDITORIAL

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