One-slide announcement of the "Virtual project on the history of ALD", shown as an extra item at the AVS ALD 2013 conference, San Diego, California, July 28-31, 2013. For further info, please look at http://aldpulse.com/node/189 . Everyone interested is welcome to join the effort, which will be open until the end of 2013.
A note about the quality: in the conversion from pptx to SlideShare, some spaces have gotten lost. Sorry for this! (pdf to SlideShare worked still less: f became 5.)
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1. “Virtual project on the history of ALD”
• Goal: generate a common view on the early evolution of ALD
in a collaborative project by the whole ALD community
•“Unknowns” especially in the Molecular Layering work (Soviet Union)
•Invitation to participatepublishedJuly 25, 2013, aldpulse.com
(Riikka Puurunen, AzizAbdulagatov, Jonas Sundqvist and Annina Titoff)
•Everyonewelcome to join, differentbackgroundsbeneficial
• List of early ALD publications will be created
• Participation: read & comment on the significance of at least
one historical publication that interests you (not much work!)
• Result to be published, names of all contributors announced
• Plan: project will be open until the end of 2013
More info: invitation at aldpulse.com; LinkedIn ”ALD History” subgroup; or
Riikka Puurunen at the ALD 2013 conference (Tue: poster 369)
Editor's Notes
ALD is a fantastic technique that changes, for its part, the world we live in. As for any important technological invention, it is important and interesting to know, where ALD has come from. Most people present today are probably familiar with the invention by TuomoSuntola on Atomic Layer Epitaxy. This started the Finnish branch of ALD in 1974. In the first experiments, zinc sulfide was made from elemental precursors, in a rotary reactor (nowadays called “spacial ALD”). But how many are familiar with the work made by Aleskovskii and Kol’tsov on Molecular Layering in the Soviet Union, which started the Russian branch of ALD? These researchers worked in 1960’s, and they were there before Suntola. When exactly was ALD demonstrated there, and which was the first process? This is currently under discussion. Some people have also recently proposed that actually the nobelist Irvin Langmuir would have done ALD, much earlier – when and how, I think the details have not been brought up. Discussion on the history is popping up every now and then, because the history is poorly described. It would be valuable for the whole scientific ALD community, to have a widely accepted description of the early development of ALD. Creating such a description is a task is larger than any single individual can do, because we all look at the facts from our own background and narrow perspective. To create a common view on the history of ALD, we have started a totally open, collaborative project, where we hope to get scientists from different backgrounds participate and work together.We have been thinking how to realize such a project, and we think we have found a way that works. An open invitation to participate has recently been published at the internet site aldpulse.com.