| Sunday, April 26, 2026 | |||
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| 9:30 AM - 1:00 PM | M-150 Cleaning Fundamentals for Coating Applications | Tyler Wheeler - Ecoclean, Inc. | Long Beach Convention Center: Room 102C |
| 9:30 AM - 1:00 PM | C-230 Processing of Plastics for Better Protection, Reflection, and Decoration | Josh Soper - Vergason Technology, Inc Gary Vergason - Vergason Technology, Inc. | Long Beach Convention Center: Room 102B |
| 9:30 AM - 5:00 PM | C-103 An Introduction to Physical Vapor Deposition (PVD) Processes | Patrick Morse - Arizona Thin FIlm Research LLC | Long Beach Convention Center: Room 103B |
| 9:30 AM - 5:00 PM | C-110 Materials for PVD Applications | Anas Ghailane - Avaluxe Coating Technologies GmbH & Co KG Christos Pernagidis - Avaluxe Coating Technologies GmbH & Co KG | Long Beach Convention Center: Room 102A |
| 9:30 AM - 5:00 PM | C-310 Sputtering | Ralf Bandorf - Fraunhofer Institute for Surface Engineering and Thin Films IST | Long Beach Convention Center: Room 101B |
| 9:30 AM - 5:00 PM | C-323 Fundamentals of High Power Impulse Magnetron Sputtering (HIPIMS) | Arutiun P. Ehiasarian - Sheffield Hallam University | Long Beach Convention Center: Room 101A |
| 9:30 AM - 5:00 PM | VT-201 Vacuum Systems, Materials, and Operation | John O’Hanlon - Retired | Long Beach Convention Center: Room 103A |
| 1:30 PM - 5:00 PM | M-102 Introduction to Ellipsometry | James Hilfiker - J.A. Woollam Co. | Long Beach Convention Center: Room 102C |
| 1:30 PM - 5:00 PM | M-250 Deposition Process Simulation | Holger Gerdes - Fraunhofer Institute for Surface Engineering and Thin Films IST Dennis Barton - Fraunhofer Institute for Surface Engineering and Thin Films IST | Long Beach Convention Center: Room 102B |
| 6:30 PM - 10:00 PM | B-140 Level Up: Career & Commercial Skills for Emerging Talent in the PVD Industry (SVC Young Members Committee) | Ton Hurkmans - Ionbond Aneliia Wäckerlin - Glas Trösch AG David Sanchez | Hyatt Regency Long Beach Hotel: Shoreline Conf Room A/B (lower level) |
| Monday, April 27, 2026 | |||
| 7:30 AM - 8:30 AM | Technology Forum Breakfast: High Power Impulse Magnetron Sputtering (HIPIMS) | Long Beach Convention Center: Room 102C | |
| 7:30 AM - 8:30 AM | Technology Forum Breakfast: Photonically Induced Surface and Thin Film Processing | Hyatt Regency Long Beach Hotel: Seaview Ballroom A (lower level) | |
| 7:30 AM - 8:30 AM | Technology Forum Breakfast: Coatings and Surface Engineering for Medical Applications | Long Beach Convention Center: Room 102B | |
| 7:30 AM - 8:30 AM | Technology Forum Breakfast: Durability Evaluation of Thin Film Coatings: Testing Methods and Practical Implications | Hyatt Regency Long Beach Hotel: Seaview Ballroom B (lower level) | |
| 7:30 AM - 8:30 AM | Technology Forum Breakfast: Atmospheric Plasma Technology | Long Beach Convention Center: Room 102A | |
| 9:30 AM - 10:10 AM | Sustainability and Life Cycle Thinking as Innovation Drivers for Surface Engineering - KEYNOTE PRESENTATION | Christoph Herrmann - Fraunhofer Institute for Surface Engineering and Thin Films IST | Long Beach Convention Center: Room 104B |
| 9:30 AM - 1:00 PM | C-201 Electron Beam Evaporation for Thin Film Deposition | Rob Belan - Kurt J. Lesker Company | Hyatt Regency Long Beach Hotel: Seaview Ballroom B (lower level) |
| 9:30 AM - 1:00 PM | M-110 Introduction to X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy | Matthew Linford - Brigham Young University | Hyatt Regency Long Beach Hotel: Seaview Ballroom C (lower level) |
| 9:30 AM - 1:00 PM | C-220 Introduction to Two-Dimensional Materials | Chris Muratore - University of Dayton | Hyatt Regency Long Beach Hotel: Seaview Ballroom A (lower level) |
| 9:30 AM - 5:00 PM | M-120 Design of Experiments for R & D | Jeremy Grace - IDEX Health & Science | Long Beach Convention Center: Room 103B |
| 9:30 AM - 5:00 PM | VT-203 Understanding and Using Residual Gas Analyzers | John O’Hanlon - Retired | Long Beach Convention Center: Room 102B |
| 10:30 AM - 10:50 AM | In-Situ and Ex-Situ Characterization of the Stress Evolution in Functional Thin Films | Ludvik Martinu - Polytechnique Montreal | Long Beach Convention Center: Room 104B |
| 10:30 AM - 10:50 AM | HIPIMS: Technology which makes industrial revolution commercially viable. | Chinmay Trivedi - IHI Hauzer Techno Coating B.V. | Long Beach Convention Center: Room 101A |
| 10:30 AM - 10:50 AM | Results Using a Specialized QMS-RGA and a Related Remote-Control System Demonstrated for the ITER-DRGA System | Chris Marcus - Oak Ridge National Laboratory | Long Beach Convention Center: Room 104C |
| 10:30 AM - 11:10 AM | Advanced Active and Inactive Coating Technologies to Improve Life and Safety of Lithium-Ion Batteries for Automotive and Grid Applications - INVITED PRESENTATION | Khalil Amine - Argonne National Laboratory | Long Beach Convention Center: Room 101B |
| 10:30 AM - 11:50 AM | Colloquium: Giving New Life to Old Coaters: Modernization of Coaters for New Demands | Wilmert De Bosscher - Soleras Ken Nauman - Sputtering Components Inc Aneliia Wäckerlin - Glas Trösch AG Kyle Schuberg - Gentex Corporation | Long Beach Convention Center: Room 104A |
| 10:50 AM - 11:10 AM | Enhancing PEM Fuel Cell Performance: A Comparative Electrochemical Study of Low-Temperature Plasma Carburizing and Nitriding of Austenitic Steel 316L for Bipolar Plates - SPONSORED STUDENT PRESENTATION | Caroline Karina Chandra - TU Darmstadt | Long Beach Convention Center: Room 104B |
| 10:50 AM - 11:10 AM | Tuning the Properties of POSS Films Prepared by Ion Beam Assisted Evaporation Using Different Precursors | Oleg Zabeida - Polytechnique Montréal | Long Beach Convention Center: Room 104C |
| 10:50 AM - 11:10 AM | Comparative Study of Growth and Properties of TiO<sub>x</sub> Thin Films Deposited via Reactive DcMS and HiPIMS | Anas Ghailane - Avaluxe Coating Technologies GmbH & Co KG | Long Beach Convention Center: Room 101A |
| 11:10 AM - 11:30 AM | Time-Resolved OES Diagnostics of Gas Flow Sputtering Using a Copper Target - SPONSORED STUDENT PRESENTATION | Jui-Che Chen - Feng Chia University | Long Beach Convention Center: Room 104C |
| 11:10 AM - 11:30 AM | Sputtered Anode-Free LiFePO₄-Based Micro Lithium-Ion Batteries for On-Chip Energy Storage | Luca Magagnin - Politecnico di Milano | Long Beach Convention Center: Room 101B |
| 11:10 AM - 11:30 AM | Surface Coating, Treatment, and Analysis of Materials for Medical Devices - INVITED PRESENTATION | Bernard Li - Medtronic | Long Beach Convention Center: Room 104B |
| 11:10 AM - 11:30 AM | Antimicrobial Efficiency and Durability of Nanostructured HIPIMS-Deposited Nanoscale Multilayer TiN/NbN Coatings | Arutiun P. Ehiasarian - Sheffield Hallam University | Long Beach Convention Center: Room 101A |
| 11:30 AM - 11:50 AM | Real-Time Optimization of HIPIMS Processes Using Pulse-Resolved Spectroscopic and Electrical Plasma Process Control | Thomas Schütte - PLASUS GmbH | Long Beach Convention Center: Room 101A |
| 11:30 AM - 11:50 AM | Influence of Load, Sliding Speed and Dimple-Textured Area Density on the Tribological Behavior of AlCrN Coating - SPONSORED STUDENT PRESENTATION | Iker Alfonso - Universidad Publica de Navarra (UPNA) | Long Beach Convention Center: Room 104B |
| 11:30 AM - 11:50 AM | Hydrogenated Diamond-Like Carbon Films Grown by a Beam Plasma Source | Tabitha Amollo - Egerton University | Long Beach Convention Center: Room 101B |
| 11:30 AM - 12:10 PM | Continuous PVD Roll-to-Roll Precoated Material for Fuel Cells: Towards Volume Production of Metallic Bipolar Plates and Interconnects for PEM/SOFC Applications - INVITED PRESENTATION | Gustaf Sjöblom - Alleima | Long Beach Convention Center: Room 104C |
| 11:50 AM - 12:10 PM | Reliable Mechanical Characterization of Vacuum Coatings: Best Practices in Nanoindentation and Scratch Testing | Parth Kotak - Anton Paar USA Inc. | Long Beach Convention Center: Room 104B |
| 11:50 AM - 12:10 PM | Vacuum-Evaporated Composite Copper Foil for Lithium-Ion Batteries: Fabrication and Performance | Kun Liu - Northeastern University China | Long Beach Convention Center: Room 101B |
| 11:50 AM - 12:10 PM | Vacuum-Deposited Solid-State Thin-Film Batteries | Yaroslav Romanyuk - EMPA | Long Beach Convention Center: Room 104A |
| 11:50 AM - 12:30 PM | Towards Reactive-Gas-Less Sputtering of Functional Nitrides – The Role of Metal Ions in Plasma-Activated Reactive Environments - INVITED PRESENTATION | Tetsuhide Shimizu - Tokyo Metropolitan University | Long Beach Convention Center: Room 101A |
| 12:10 PM - 12:30 PM | Enhanced Corrosion and Wear Resistance of 6082 and 7075 Alloys via Optimized Anodizing and DLC Deposition | Luca Magagnin - Politecnico di Milano | Long Beach Convention Center: Room 101B |
| 12:10 PM - 12:30 PM | Arc Stability Analysis of Powder-Metallurgical TiB/TiN Target by Means of Pulsed Arc-PVD Process | Marta Miranda Marti - RWTH Aachen University | Long Beach Convention Center: Room 104B |
| 12:10 PM - 12:30 PM | Graphite Doped Lithium Based Sputtering Targets for DC Deposition of LIPON for Thin Film Batteries Applications | Peter Polcik - Plansee Composite Materials GmbH | Long Beach Convention Center: Room 104C |
| 12:10 PM - 12:30 PM | HiPIMS Goes Large | Waldemar Schönberger - VON ARDENNE GmbH | Long Beach Convention Center: Room 104A |
| 1:10 PM - 1:50 PM | From Poisoned Targets to Healthy Models: The Quest for Parameters - DON MATTOX TUTORIAL KEYNOTE PRESENTATION | Diederik Depla - Ghent University | Long Beach Convention Center: Room 104B |
| 1:30 PM - 5:00 PM | M-201 Flexible Electronics | Chris Muratore - University of Dayton | Hyatt Regency Long Beach Hotel: Seaview Ballroom A (lower level) |
| 1:30 PM - 5:00 PM | M-230 Nanoscale Heat Transfer in Thin Films and Interfaces | Patrick Hopkins - Laser Thermal, Inc. | Hyatt Regency Long Beach Hotel: Shoreline Conf Room A (lower level) |
| 2:00 PM - 2:20 PM | InSitu Optical Pyrometer Emissivity Measurement for Thin Film Processes | Tim Dubbs - Advanced Energy Industries | Long Beach Convention Center: Room 104B |
| 2:00 PM - 2:20 PM | Estimating the Lifetime of the Antimicrobial Property of Silver Containing Titanium Nitride Coatings for Implanted Biomedical Electrochemical Devices | Steven DiSpirito - Rowan University | Long Beach Convention Center: Room 104C |
| 2:00 PM - 2:20 PM | Time Resolved Investigations on Ion Fraction, Ionization Degree, and Plasma Composition within a HIPIMS Pulse | Ralf Bandorf - Fraunhofer Institute for Surface Engineering and Thin Films IST | Long Beach Convention Center: Room 101A |
| 2:00 PM - 2:40 PM | Mass Production of Inorganic and Organic Coatings for Display Cover Glass - INVITED PRESENTATION | Brian Holsclaw - Corning, Inc. | Long Beach Convention Center: Room 104A |
| 2:10 PM - 3:20 PM | Colloquium: The Challenge of Transitioning to Sustainable Surface Engineering Practices | Andre Anders - Plasma Engineering LLC Klaus Boebel - Oerlikon Surface Solutions Christoph Herrmann - Fraunhofer Institute for Surface Engineering and Thin Films IST Christoph Schiffers - CemeCon AG Jochen Michael Schneider - RWTH Aachen University - Materials Chemistry Tetsuya Takahashi - KOBE Steel, Ltd. | Long Beach Convention Center: Room 101B |
| 2:20 PM - 2:40 PM | Through-Glass Via Metallization by Using HiPIMS Copper Layer - SPONSORED STUDENT PRESENTATION | Shang-Chen Wu - Feng Chia University | Long Beach Convention Center: Room 101A |
| 2:20 PM - 2:40 PM | Hierarchically Restructured Titanium Electrodes with Integrated Antibacterial Functionality for Neurostimulation Implantable Devices | Kriti Panchal - Drexel University | Long Beach Convention Center: Room 104C |
| 2:20 PM - 2:40 PM | Emergent Quasiperiodic Superstructure in WTe2 with Silver-Mean Modulation | So-Dam Sohn - Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science | Long Beach Convention Center: Room 104B |
| 2:40 PM - 3:00 PM | Controlled Synthesis of 2D TMDs with Tunable Magnetic and Optoelectronic Characteristics | Sheng-Kuei Chiu - National University of Tainan | Long Beach Convention Center: Room 104B |
| 2:40 PM - 3:00 PM | Beam Plasma Source-Enhanced Deposition of High- and Low-Index Oxide Thin Films | Junwoo Lee - Michigan State University | Long Beach Convention Center: Room 104A |
| 2:40 PM - 3:00 PM | Advanced HiPIMS Coating Equipment for High-Performance Cutting Tools Amid Tungsten Price increase | Wei Zhou - Guangdong Huasheng Nanotechnology | Long Beach Convention Center: Room 101A |
| 2:40 PM - 3:20 PM | From Telecom to Biotech– Closing the Loop with Thin Films - INVITED PRESENTATION | Matthias Wagner - Self | Long Beach Convention Center: Room 104C |
| 3:00 PM - 3:20 PM | Enabling Large-Area Advanced Packaging Through Optical In-Situ Metrology in Sputter Deposition | Kolja Haberland - LayTec AG | Long Beach Convention Center: Room 104A |
| 3:00 PM - 3:20 PM | Optical Characterization of the Growth of Ultra-Thin Metal Films | Oleg Zabeida - Polytechnique Montréal | Long Beach Convention Center: Room 104B |
| 3:00 PM - 3:20 PM | Reactive Sputtering Discharge Dynamics by Pulse Sequencing in Multi-Pulse HiPIMS | Erdong Chen - Tokyo Metropolitan University | Long Beach Convention Center: Room 101A |
| 3:40 PM - 4:00 PM | Scalable Manufacturing of Signal-Penetrating Low-E Glass via Production-Line Lithography | Guowen Ding - labforinvention Corp | Long Beach Convention Center: Room 104A |
| 3:40 PM - 4:10 PM | Photonic Post-Processing of Printed Inks on Flexible Substrates - INVITED PRESENTATION | Mark Poliks - SUNY Binghamton University | Long Beach Convention Center: Room 101B |
| 3:40 PM - 4:20 PM | New Developments in Spectroscopic Ellipsometry - INVITED PRESENTATION | James Hilfiker - J.A. Woollam Co. | Long Beach Convention Center: Room 104B |
| 3:40 PM - 5:00 PM | Colloquium: The Innovation Spiral of HIPIMS Towards Industrialization | Ralf Bandorf - Fraunhofer Institute for Surface Engineering and Thin Films IST Arutiun P. Ehiasarian - Sheffield Hallam University Daniel Loch - TRUMPF Hüttinger GmbH & Co. KG Ton Hurkmans - Ionbond Uwe Heydenreich - TRUMPF Hüttinger GmbH + Co. KG Tetsuhide Shimizu - Tokyo Metropolitan University Dermot Monaghan - Gencoa Ltd | Long Beach Convention Center: Room 101A |
| 4:00 PM - 4:20 PM | Going Large - Prediction and Optimization of Layer Thickness Distributions in Large-Area Magnetron Sputtering | Eric Volkhardt - Fraunhofer Institute for Surface Engineering and Thin Films IST | Long Beach Convention Center: Room 104A |
| 4:00 PM - 4:40 PM | Complete Hamiltonian Control with Multi-Mode Superconducting Circuits - INVITED PRESENTATION | Eli Levenson-Falk - University of Southern California | Long Beach Convention Center: Room 104C |
| 4:20 PM - 4:40 PM | High-Throughput Large-Area Coating Using a Carousel-Type Sputtering System | Takuya Sugawara - Shincron Co., Ltd. | Long Beach Convention Center: Room 104A |
| 4:20 PM - 4:40 PM | Advances in the Fourier Denoising of XPS and Other Types of Data | Matthew Linford - Brigham Young University | Long Beach Convention Center: Room 104B |
| 4:40 PM - 5:00 PM | Correlated Lattice-Parameter and Electric-Field Mapping in GaN/AlGaN Thin Films | Xiaolei Chu - Covalent | Long Beach Convention Center: Room 104B |
| 5:20 PM - 6:20 PM | Sunset Meeting Forum: Advanced Multifunctional Coatings: Integrating Vacuum and Electrochemical Deposition | Long Beach Convention Center: Room 102B | |
| 5:20 PM - 6:20 PM | Sunset Meeting Forum: Advanced Deposition Coating Hardware | Long Beach Convention Center: Room 102A | |
| 5:20 PM - 6:20 PM | Sunset Meeting Forum: Materials for PVD Processes | Long Beach Convention Center: Room 102C | |
| 5:20 PM - 6:20 PM | Sunset Meeting Forum: Large-Area Advanced Packaging and Integrated Photonics | Hyatt Regency Long Beach Hotel: Seaview Ballroom C (lower level) | |
| 5:20 PM - 6:20 PM | Sunset Meeting Forum: Characterization, Testing and Failure Analysis of Thin Films, Coatings and Engineered Surfaces | Hyatt Regency Long Beach Hotel: Seaview Ballroom B (lower level) | |
| Tuesday, April 28, 2026 | |||
| 7:30 AM - 8:30 AM | Technology Forum Breakfast: ALD for Optics | Hyatt Regency Long Beach Hotel: Seaview Ballroom C (lower level) | |
| 7:30 AM - 8:30 AM | Technology Forum Breakfast: Industrial Challenges: Uptime, Yield, and Consistency | Long Beach Convention Center: Room 102B | |
| 7:30 AM - 8:30 AM | Technology Forum Breakfast: Magnetron Sputtering | Long Beach Convention Center: Room 102C | |
| 7:30 AM - 8:30 AM | Technology Forum Breakfast: Process Monitoring and Control | Hyatt Regency Long Beach Hotel: Seaview Ballroom A (lower level) | |
| 7:30 AM - 8:30 AM | Technology Forum Breakfast: Energy Conversion and Storage | Hyatt Regency Long Beach Hotel: Seaview Ballroom A (lower level) | |
| 7:30 AM - 8:30 AM | Technology Forum Breakfast: Leak Detection – Issues and Practices | Long Beach Convention Center: Room 102A | |
| 9:30 AM - 9:50 AM | From Legacy to Industry 4.0: Retrofitting Vacuum Coaters with Eddy Current Metrology | Marcus Klein - SURAGUS GmbH | Long Beach Convention Center: Room 104C |
| 9:30 AM - 9:50 AM | Industrial HiPIMS – Process Challenges, Trends and Innovations | Rafael Sánchez Reátegui - Ionautics | Long Beach Convention Center: Room 101A |
| 9:30 AM - 10:10 AM | Powder Atomic Layer Deposition at the Commercial Scale for Lithium-Ion Batteries - INVITED PRESENTATION | Christopher Gump - Forge Nano | Long Beach Convention Center: Room 101B |
| 9:30 AM - 10:10 AM | Hydrogen: Boon or Bane? Opportunities and Challenges in Coating Solutions for Industrial Scale-Up - INVITED PRESENTATION | Nazlim Bagcivan - Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG | Long Beach Convention Center: Room 101B |
| 9:30 AM - 10:10 AM | Achieving Compositional Tunability in Perovskite Thin Films by Physical Vapour Deposition - INVITED PRESENTATION | Jay Patel - King’s College London | Long Beach Convention Center: Room 104B |
| 9:30 AM - 1:00 PM | C-245 Industrial Broad Beam Ion Sources | Binyamin Rubin - Veeco | Hyatt Regency Long Beach Hotel: Seaview Ballroom C (lower level) |
| 9:30 AM - 1:00 PM | C-210 Introduction to Plasma Processing Technology | Hana Barankova - Uppsala University Ladislav Bardos - Uppsala University | Hyatt Regency Long Beach Hotel: Seaview Ballroom A (lower level) |
| 9:30 AM - 5:00 PM | C-205: Introduction to Optical Coating Design | Robert Sargent - VIAVI Solutions | Long Beach Convention Center: Room 102C |
| 9:30 AM - 5:00 PM | VT-240 Practical Elements of Leak Detection | JEAN-PIERRE (JP) DELUCA - BDL REDWOOD LLC | Long Beach Convention Center: Room 103B |
| 9:30 AM - 5:00 PM | VT-230 Design and Specification of Vacuum Deposition Systems | Rob Belan - Kurt J. Lesker Company | Long Beach Convention Center: Room 102B |
| 9:30 AM - 5:00 PM | C-337 ITO and Alternative TCO: From Fundamentals to Controlling Properties | Clark Bright - Bright Thin Film Solutions LLC | Long Beach Convention Center: Room 102A |
| 9:50 AM - 10:10 AM | 60 MHz/2 MHz Capacitively Coupled Plasma Etching Following Laser Modification to Form Through-Glass Via | Tsung-Hao Chen - Feng Chia University | Long Beach Convention Center: Room 101A |
| 9:50 AM - 10:30 AM | Transforming Process Innovation through Advanced Chamber Pressure Control - INVITED PRESENTATION | Pedro Reyero Santiago - VAT Vakuumventile AG | Long Beach Convention Center: Room 104C |
| 10:10 AM - 10:30 AM | Comparative Hydrogen Permeation Testing of TiN and CrN Coatings: Insights from Electrochemical and Pressurized Methods | Helmut Riedl - TU Wien | Long Beach Convention Center: Room 104A |
| 10:10 AM - 10:30 AM | IMPULSE® + Positive Kick™ For Silicon Carbide Coatings on Inner Surface of Small Diameter Long Tubing | Ivan Shchelkanov - Starfire Industries LLC. | Long Beach Convention Center: Room 101A |
| 10:10 AM - 10:30 AM | From Precursor to Performance: The Impact of FAI Impurities on Halide Perovskite Thin Films and Devices | Siyu Yan - University of Oxford | Long Beach Convention Center: Room 104B |
| 10:10 AM - 10:30 AM | Replacing Ti Plates by Ti-Coated Steel Substrates for PEM-Electrolyzer | Ralf Bandorf - Fraunhofer Institute for Surface Engineering and Thin Films IST | Long Beach Convention Center: Room 101B |
| 10:30 AM - 10:50 AM | Stabilizing Lithium Metal Anodes with Vacuum-Deposited PET-Cu Composite Current Collectors | Kun Liu - Northeastern University China | Long Beach Convention Center: Room 104A |
| 10:50 AM - 11:10 AM | Inteleg® OES Intelligence Platform: A Multi‑Sensor, AI‑Driven Architecture for Autonomous Thin‑Film Manufacturing | Martynas Audronis - Nova Fabrica Ltd. | Long Beach Convention Center: Room 104C |
| 10:50 AM - 11:10 AM | Minimizing Interfacial Recombination Losses in Perovskite Solar Cells through Selective Vacuum Deposition Processing - SPONSORED STUDENT PRESENTATION | Isaac Ogunniranye - University of Toledo | Long Beach Convention Center: Room 104B |
| 10:50 AM - 11:10 AM | PVD Coatings for the Hydrogen Economy | Herbert Gabriel - PVT Plasma und Vakuum Technik GmbH | Long Beach Convention Center: Room 101B |
| 10:50 AM - 11:30 AM | Beyond Traditional High Power Impulse Magnetron Sputtering - INVITED PRESENTATION | Uwe Heydenreich - TRUMPF Hüttinger GmbH + Co. KG | Long Beach Convention Center: Room 101A |
| 11:10 AM - 11:30 AM | Fast, Highly Repeatable Gas Chemistry Control for Atomic Scale Processing | Shaun Pewsey - Brooks Instrument | Long Beach Convention Center: Room 104C |
| 11:10 AM - 11:30 AM | High Voltage All-Evaporated 2.0eV Inorganic Perovskite Photovoltaic Devices - SPONSORED STUDENT PRESENTATION | Hallie Echelman - King's College London | Long Beach Convention Center: Room 104B |
| 11:10 AM - 11:30 AM | Exciting News From DHF Technical Products | Marcel Anaya - DHF Technical Products | Long Beach Convention Center: Room 104A |
| 11:10 AM - 11:30 AM | Correlating Deposition Temperature with Structure and Sensing Perofrormance in Palladium Thin film Hydrogen Sensors - SPONSORED STUDENT PRESENTATION | Chukwudike Ukeje - Imperial College London | Long Beach Convention Center: Room 101B |
| 11:30 AM - 11:50 AM | RF-Assisted HIPIMS on a Single Target: Discharge Stability and Ionization Behavior for Arcing-Prone Materials | Anna Wiktoria Oniszczuk - TRUMPF Huettinger Sp. z o.o. | Long Beach Convention Center: Room 101A |
| 11:30 AM - 11:50 AM | Anti-Corrosion and Wear Characteristics of HiPIMS Deposited Layered TiN Films for Recycling 316L SS Bipolar Plates in PEM Fuel Cells Using IMPULSE® + Positive Kick™ | Brian Jurczyk - Starfire Industries LLC | Long Beach Convention Center: Room 101B |
| 11:30 AM - 11:50 AM | Critical Subsystems Suppliers Play a Key Role in the Global Wafer Fab Equipment Supply Chain | Paule Durin - Yole Group | Long Beach Convention Center: Room 104C |
| 11:30 AM - 11:50 AM | Thermal Co-Evaporation of Thin Film Photovoltaics by the Cluster Tool | Jin Yao - University of Oxford | Long Beach Convention Center: Room 104B |
| 11:50 AM - 12:10 PM | New Plasma Source Technology to Help Combat Global Supply Chain Disruptions and Material Price Increases | Dermot Monaghan - Gencoa Ltd | Long Beach Convention Center: Room 104A |
| 11:50 AM - 12:10 PM | Optical In-Situ Metrology for Perovskite Processing: A Review of Reflectance and Photoluminescence-Based Process Insights | Kolja Haberland - LayTec AG | Long Beach Convention Center: Room 104B |
| 12:10 PM - 12:30 PM | Dual Output. Half the Footprint. Full Control to Stabilize Reactive Sputtering and Boost Throughput: TruPlasma DC 4040/4060 G2 with PVL and Advanced Arc Control for Faster Ramp‑Up and Lower CAPEX | Krzysztof Ruda - TRUMPF Huettinger Sp. z o.o. | Long Beach Convention Center: Room 104A |
| 12:30 PM - 12:50 PM | Integrated Mechanical and Structural Characterization Solutions for Vacuum Coatings | Parth Kotak - Anton Paar USA Inc. | Long Beach Convention Center: Room 104A |
| 12:50 PM - 1:10 PM | Custom Vacuum Coating Systems, Vacuum Coater Refurbishment and Contract R&D at GP Plasma | Frank Papa - GP Plasma | Long Beach Convention Center: Room 104A |
| 1:30 PM - 5:00 PM | C-306 Non-Conventional Plasma Sources and Methods in Processing Technology | Hana Barankova - Uppsala University Ladislav Bardos - Uppsala University | Hyatt Regency Long Beach Hotel: Seaview Ballroom A (lower level) |
| 2:30 PM - 4:30 PM | Fabrication and Characterization of Molybdenum Oxide Thin Films for Solar Energy Applications | Bassel Abdel-Samad - Université de Moncton | Exhibit Hall A |
| 2:30 PM - 4:30 PM | Atmospheric Plasma Beam Printing of the Silicon Anodes and Lamination of Carbon Nanofiber Cathodes fort LiBs | Yuri Glukhoy - nanocoating plasma systems inc | Exhibit Hall A |
| 2:30 PM - 4:30 PM | Front Contact (TCO/Emitter) Engineering for High-Efficiency CdTe-based Solar Cells on Ultra-Thin Cover Glass - SPONSORED STUDENT PRESENTATION | Aesha Patel - University of Toledo | Exhibit Hall A |
| 2:30 PM - 4:30 PM | Thick Metal Coatings on Glass Microspheres for Advanced Manufacturing | Kira Shulman - Los Alamos National Laboratory | Exhibit Hall A |
| Wednesday, April 29, 2026 | |||
| 8:40 AM - 9:20 AM | Fano-Resonant Optical Coatings and Applications - KEYNOTE PRESENTATION | Chunlei Guo - University of Rochester | Long Beach Convention Center: Room 104B |
| 9:30 AM - 9:50 AM | Real-Time Contaminant Particle Monitoring During Thin Film Deposition Processes for Improved Production Yields | Sylvain LeCoultre - BFH | Long Beach Convention Center: Room 104C |
| 9:30 AM - 9:50 AM | Hybrid Cleaning of Components prior to High-Tech Coating | Karl Trautz - HEMO GmbH | Long Beach Convention Center: Room 104B |
| 9:30 AM - 9:50 AM | Active Nanostructured Optical Coatings for Energy, Eeyewear and Sensor Applications | Ludvik Martinu - Polytechnique Montreal | Long Beach Convention Center: Room 101A |
| 9:30 AM - 9:50 AM | The Benefits of Moving Plasma PVD Source Technology | Lara Maroto-Diaz - Gencoa Ltd | Long Beach Convention Center: Room 104A |
| 9:30 AM - 10:10 AM | PVD Driven Innovations in Advanced Packaging: Enabling Next Generation Heterogeneous Integration - INVITED PRESENTATION | Manuela Junghähnel - Fraunhofer IZM-ASSID | Long Beach Convention Center: Room 101B |
| 9:30 AM - 11:30 AM | VT-245 Hands-On Helium Mass Spectrometer Leak Detection_Session #1 | Mike Ridenour - Leybold JEAN-PIERRE (JP) DELUCA - BDL REDWOOD LLC | Long Beach Convention Center: Room 103B |
| 9:30 AM - 1:00 PM | M-240 Basics and Applications of Electron Beam Technology for Manufacturing Processes | Stefan Saager - Fraunhofer Institute for Electron Beam and Plasma Technologies FEP | Long Beach Convention Center: Room 102C |
| 9:30 AM - 5:00 PM | C-322 Characterization of Thick Films, Thin Films, and Surfaces | Tom Christensen - University of Colorado -Col Springs | Hyatt Regency Long Beach Hotel: Shoreline Conf Room A (lower level) |
| 9:30 AM - 5:00 PM | C-316 Introduction to Atomic Layer Deposition (ALD) Processes, Chemistries, and Applications | Necmi Biyikli - University Of Connecticut | Hyatt Regency Long Beach Hotel: Seaview Ballroom A (lower level) |
| 9:30 AM - 5:00 PM | C-329 Properties and Applications of Tribological Coatings | Gary Doll - University of Akron Allan Matthews - Manchester University | Long Beach Convention Center: Room 102B |
| 9:30 AM - 5:00 PM | C-338 Application of Reactive Sputtering | Ralf Bandorf - Fraunhofer Institute for Surface Engineering and Thin Films IST Holger Gerdes - Fraunhofer Institute for Surface Engineering and Thin Films IST | Long Beach Convention Center: Room 102A |
| 9:30 AM - 5:00 PM | C-212 Troubleshooting for Thin Film Deposition Processes | Akhil Vohra - ANGSTROM ENGINEERING INC | Hyatt Regency Long Beach Hotel: Seaview Ballroom C (lower level) |
| 9:50 AM - 10:10 AM | Industrial-Ready HIPIMS: 25 Years of Power-Supply Evolution from Concept to Production Tool | Anna Wiktoria Oniszczuk - TRUMPF Huettinger Sp. z o.o. | Long Beach Convention Center: Room 104A |
| 9:50 AM - 10:10 AM | Tunable Broadband Optical Properties of Reactive Magnetron Sputtered Niobium-Doped Zinc Oxide and Niobium Oxynitride Thin Films from UV to Far Infrared | Lirong Sun - U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory | Long Beach Convention Center: Room 101A |
| 9:50 AM - 10:10 AM | Intellectual Property – A View through an Investor’s Lens | Chris Stoessel - Stoessel Consulting | Long Beach Convention Center: Room 104B |
| 9:50 AM - 10:10 AM | Optical In-Situ Metrology for Characterization, Testing, and Failure Analysis of Sputtered Thin Films and Engineered Coatings | Kolja Haberland - LayTec AG | Long Beach Convention Center: Room 104C |
| 10:10 AM - 10:30 AM | Engineering Solutions for High-Speed Roll-to-Roll Vacuum Coating in Scalable Manufacturing of Functional and Energy-Related Films | Zhifang Li - Guangdong Huicheng Vacuum Technology Co., Ltd. | Long Beach Convention Center: Room 104B |
| 10:10 AM - 10:30 AM | Expanding HIPIMS Applications for Semiconductor Manufacturing: Enabling High‑Quality Metallization and Via Formation for Through‑Glass Via (TGV) Technology | Anna Wiktoria Oniszczuk - TRUMPF Huettinger Sp. z o.o. | Long Beach Convention Center: Room 101B |
| 10:10 AM - 10:30 AM | Next-Generation Rotary Sensor Technology for Demanding Vacuum Coating Applications | Sheldon Wayman - INFICON | Long Beach Convention Center: Room 104A |
| 10:10 AM - 10:30 AM | Ultra-Low Coating Thermal Noise Reflectors: The Case of Hydrogenated Amorphous Silicon for Gravitational Waves Detection - SPONSORED STUDENT PRESENTATION | Alexandre Lussier - Université de Montréal | Long Beach Convention Center: Room 101A |
| 10:10 AM - 10:30 AM | Industrial Scale-Up of Reactive Magnetron Sputtering of NiVxOy Electrochromic Coatings Using Optical Emission Spectroscopy Closed-Loop Control | Oihane Hernandez Rodriguez - Tekniker | Long Beach Convention Center: Room 104C |
| 10:50 AM - 11:10 AM | Physics‑Based, Plasma‑Informed Correction Masks for Large‑Area Magnetron‑Sputtered Optical Coatings | Chien-Jen Tang - Feng Chia Univeristy | Long Beach Convention Center: Room 101A |
| 10:50 AM - 11:10 AM | A Scalable HiPIMS–RF Bias Strategy for Reliable Cu Seed Layers in High-AR Through-Glass Vias | Yilei Shen - TRUMPF Hüttinger GmbH + Co. KG | Long Beach Convention Center: Room 101B |
| 10:50 AM - 11:10 AM | Tungsten and Molybdenum Sputtering Targets for Semiconductor and Flat Panel Display Manufacturing | Enrico Franzke - Plansee SE | Long Beach Convention Center: Room 104A |
| 10:50 AM - 11:30 AM | Beyond Ion Gauges: Wide-Range, Maintenance-Free Vacuum Sensing for Modern Coating Systems - INVITED PRESENTATION | Caspar Christiansen - Sens4 A/S | Long Beach Convention Center: Room 104C |
| 11:10 AM - 11:30 AM | Sputtered Thin-Film Lithium Niobate for Scalable Photonic Integrated Circuits | Takuya Sugawara - Shincron Co., Ltd. | Long Beach Convention Center: Room 101B |
| 11:10 AM - 11:30 AM | A Modular Platform Approach for Advanced Carbon Coatings: Extending Performance and Flexibility with the Oerlikon DOMINO System | Bruce Deiseroth - Vergason Technology Inc. | Long Beach Convention Center: Room 104A |
| 11:10 AM - 11:50 AM | Recent Innovations in Optical Coating Design Software - INVITED PRESENTATION | Michael Trubetskov - OTF Studio GmbH | Long Beach Convention Center: Room 101A |
| 11:30 AM - 11:50 AM | In-Vacuum Color Monitoring to Improve Process Reproducibility in Decorative Coating Applications | Jan-Peter Urbach - PLASUS GmbH | Long Beach Convention Center: Room 104C |
| 11:30 AM - 12:10 PM | Optical Engines and Thin Film Nanophotonics - INVITED PRESENTATION | Mohamed ElKabbash - University of Arizona | Long Beach Convention Center: Room 101B |
| 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM | VT-245 Hands-On Helium Mass Spectrometer Leak Detection_Session #2 | Mike Ridenour - Leybold JEAN-PIERRE (JP) DELUCA - BDL REDWOOD LLC | Long Beach Convention Center: Room 103B |
| 1:30 PM - 5:00 PM | C-320 Diamond Like Carbon Coatings-From Basics to Industrial Realization | Lars Haubold - Fraunhofer USA Christian Stein - Fraunhofer IST George Savva - Ionbond | Hyatt Regency Long Beach Hotel: Seaview Ballroom B (lower level) |
| 1:30 PM - 5:00 PM | M-260 Advanced Packaging | Koushik Banerjee - Retired | Long Beach Convention Center: Room 102C |
| 1:30 PM - 5:00 PM | M-103 In Situ Spectroscopic Ellipsometry | Greg Pribil - J.A. Woollam Co., Inc. | Long Beach Convention Center: Room 103A |
| Thursday, April 30, 2026 | |||
| 7:30 AM - 8:30 AM | Technology Forum Breakfast: Optical Thin Film Design | Hyatt Regency Long Beach Hotel: Seaview Ballroom A (lower level) | |
| 7:30 AM - 8:30 AM | Technology Forum Breakfast: Surface Engineering for the Hydrogen Economy | Long Beach Convention Center: Room 102A | |
| 7:30 AM - 8:30 AM | Technology Forum Breakfast: Aligning Deposition Process Requirements with Vacuum System Layout and Design (Clone) | Hyatt Regency Long Beach Hotel: Seaview Ballroom B (lower level) | |
| 7:30 AM - 8:30 AM | Technology Forum Breakfast: Protective, Reflective, and Decorative Coatings | Long Beach Convention Center: Room 102B | |
| 7:30 AM - 8:30 AM | Technology Forum Breakfast: Digital Transformation of Industrial Deposition Processes | Long Beach Convention Center: Room 102C | |
| 7:30 AM - 8:30 AM | Technology Forum Breakfast: Electron Beam Processes | Hyatt Regency Long Beach Hotel: Seaview Ballroom C (lower level) | |
| 8:40 AM - 9:20 AM | Plasma Technologies for Precision and Large-Scale Surface Engineering - KEYNOTE PRESENTATION | Elizabeth von Hauff - Fraunhofer Institute for Electron Beam and Plasma Technologies FEP | Long Beach Convention Center: Room 104B |
| 9:30 AM - 9:50 AM | Machine-Learning-Enabled High-Throughput Optimization and Physical Property Prediction for All-Vacuum-Evaporated Organic Semiconductor Films and Devices | Zhenlong Li - University of Oxford | Long Beach Convention Center: Room 104C |
| 9:30 AM - 9:50 AM | Linear Ion Beam for High Rate Reactive Sputtering | David Stevenson - Ampres, INC. | Long Beach Convention Center: Room 101A |
| 9:30 AM - 9:50 AM | High-Rate Plasma-Activated EB-PVD for Graphite-Filled Composite Bipolar Plates | Stefan Saager - Fraunhofer Institute for Electron Beam and Plasma Technologies FEP | Long Beach Convention Center: Room 104A |
| 9:30 AM - 10:10 AM | Directional Atomic Layer Etching of Lithium Niobate Using Bromine Plasma Chemistry - INVITED PRESENTATION | Austin Minnich - Caltech | Long Beach Convention Center: Room 104B |
| 9:30 AM - 1:00 PM | M-210 Introduction to Solid-State Thin Film Batteries | J.R. Gaines - The Kurt J Lesker Company | Long Beach Convention Center: Room 103A |
| 9:30 AM - 1:00 PM | C-204 Basics of Vacuum Web Coating | Mike Simmons - Intellivation LLC | Long Beach Convention Center: Room 102C |
| 9:30 AM - 1:00 PM | M-140 Mass Flow Controllers: Fundamentals, Troubleshooting, and Calibration | Wayne Lewey - Teledyne Hastings Instruments | Long Beach Convention Center: Room 102A |
| 9:50 AM - 10:10 AM | Can AI Predict Your PVD Process Parameters? From Historical Data to Predictive Process Windows | Helia Jalili - Cavosh Innovation | Long Beach Convention Center: Room 104C |
| 9:50 AM - 10:10 AM | Revolutionizing Optical Coating: Achieving Higher Deposition Rates and Plasma Stability with Bipolar BDP Technology | Yilei Shen - TRUMPF Hüttinger GmbH + Co. KG | Long Beach Convention Center: Room 101A |
| 9:50 AM - 10:10 AM | Open | Long Beach Convention Center: Room 104C | |
| 9:50 AM - 10:30 AM | Vacuum Barrier Coatings for Mono-Material Films: Developments in Equipment and Process Technology for SiOx and AlOx - INVITED PRESENTATION | Markus Piwko - VON ARDENNE GmbH | Long Beach Convention Center: Room 104A |
| 10:10 AM - 10:30 AM | Faulty Process State Detection and Optimization using Machine Learning | Holger Gerdes - Fraunhofer Institute for Surface Engineering and Thin Films IST | Long Beach Convention Center: Room 104C |
| 10:10 AM - 10:30 AM | Elevating Coating System Performance: Demonstrating PCTFE’s Chemical Stability Over PFPE in ALD, PVD, and CVD | Marvin Odisho - Halocarbon | Long Beach Convention Center: Room 104B |
| 10:10 AM - 10:50 AM | State of the Art of Amorphous IBS Coatings Improvements for the Gravitational Wave Detectors and Other Applications - INVITED PRESENTATION | Laurent Pinard - Laboratoire des Materiaux Avances - CNRS | Long Beach Convention Center: Room 101A |
| 10:30 AM - 10:50 AM | Low Resistivity Metallic Films by Thermal Atomic Layer Deposition Enabling Next Generation Interconnects | Sara Harris - Forge Nano | Long Beach Convention Center: Room 104B |
| 10:30 AM - 10:50 AM | Si Doping Effect on DLC Film Deposited by PECVD and Sputtering | Gun-Hwan Lee - Korea Institute of Materials Science (KIMS) | Long Beach Convention Center: Room 101B |
| 10:30 AM - 10:50 AM | Open-Source Particle Simulations for Electron Beam Process Modeling Using PICLas | Asim Mirza - boltzplatz - numerical plasma dynamics GmbH | Long Beach Convention Center: Room 104A |
| 10:30 AM - 10:50 AM | Reducing Downtime and Waste in Vacuum Coating Through AI Prediction | Joe Brindley - Gencoa Ltd | Long Beach Convention Center: Room 104C |
| 11:10 AM - 11:30 AM | Predicting Film Homogeneity in Large-Area Rotary Sputtering: GPU-Accelerated Multi-Species Transport and Energy Distribution Modeling | Patrick Morse - Arizona Thin FIlm Research LLC | Long Beach Convention Center: Room 104C |
| 11:10 AM - 11:50 AM | PVD Coatings for Tribological Applications – Known Paths and New Perspectives - INVITED PRESENTATION | Christian Kalscheuer - IOT, RWTH Aachen | Long Beach Convention Center: Room 101B |
| 11:10 AM - 11:50 AM | Hydrazine-Enabled Atomic Layer Deposition of TiN for High-Performance DRAM Electrodes - INVITED PRESENTATION | Walter Hernandez - RASIRC | Long Beach Convention Center: Room 104B |
| 11:10 AM - 12:30 PM | Colloquium: A Manufacturer’s Guide to Coatings for High Power Lasers | David Sanchez Colin Harthcock - LLNL Jay Anzellotti - Idex Health and Science | Long Beach Convention Center: Room 101A |
| 11:30 AM - 11:50 AM | Particle-Based Simulation of Reactive Magnetron Sputtering in an Industrial Glass Coating Chamber Using the Open-Source PIC-MCC/DSMC Solver PICLas | Paul Nizenkov - boltzplatz - numerical plasma dynamics GmbH | Long Beach Convention Center: Room 104C |
| 11:50 AM - 12:10 PM | High-Temperature Tribological Properties of Tungsten Disulfide Thin Films Deposited by Magnetron Sputtering | Juan Manuel González Carmona - Centro de Ingeniería y Desarrollo Industrial CIDESI | Long Beach Convention Center: Room 101B |
| 11:50 AM - 12:10 PM | Controlling the Crystallinity of V2O5 Deposited by Plasma-Enhanced Atomic Layer Deposition | Scott Walton - Naval Research Laboratory | Long Beach Convention Center: Room 104B |
| 11:50 AM - 12:30 PM | Navigating Digital Transformation in an Established Industrial Environment: Data, Simulation, and the Strategic Road Ahead - INVITED PRESENTATION | Alexander Ebner - Hueck Folien GmbH | Long Beach Convention Center: Room 104C |
| 1:10 PM - 1:30 PM | High-Consistency Vacuum Coating Equipment and Process Platform for Large-Area Optical Components | Zhifang Li - Guangdong Huicheng Vacuum Technology Co., Ltd. | Long Beach Convention Center: Room 101A |
| 1:10 PM - 1:30 PM | Optimization of CORE Method Enabled Silicon Etching for Improving Light-Matter Interaction in Mid-Wave Infrared Wavelengths | Sumit Goswami - University of Oklahoma | Long Beach Convention Center: Room 104A |
| 1:10 PM - 2:50 PM | Colloquium: Decorative PVD Coatings – Trends and Challenges | Martin Engels - Ionbond Netherlands B.V. Ton Hurkmans - Ionbond Chinmay Trivedi - IHI Hauzer Techno Coating B.V. Bryce Anton - VaporTech BRIAN NEVILL - West Coast Metal Finishing, Inc Francesca Marchetti - Protec Surface Technologies SRL | Long Beach Convention Center: Room 101B |
| 1:30 PM - 1:50 PM | Versatile Electronic Sensor Platform Mass-Produced Using Roll-to-Roll PVD and Laser Patterning Processes | Chris Muratore - University of Dayton | Long Beach Convention Center: Room 104B |
| 1:30 PM - 1:50 PM | Passive and Active Structural Color Control of the Metallic-Dielectric Thin Film Structures - SPONSORED STUDENT PRESENTATION | Michał Nowak - Military University of Technology | Long Beach Convention Center: Room 101A |
| 1:30 PM - 2:10 PM | Process-Based Programming of Spatially Varying Nanocarbon Properties by Laser Writing for Multifunctional Flexible Devices - INVITED PRESENTATION | Mostafa Bedewy - University of Pittsburgh | Long Beach Convention Center: Room 104A |
| 1:50 PM - 2:10 PM | Challenges and Opportunities of Copper Nitride Nanostructures - SPONSORED STUDENT PRESENTATION | Veronika Červenková - Polytechnique Montreal | Long Beach Convention Center: Room 104B |
| 1:50 PM - 2:10 PM | Thickness Distribution Modeling and Mask Optimization for Freeform Substrates in Sputtering Process | TzuHou Chan - Dah Young Vacuum Equipment Co.,Ltd | Long Beach Convention Center: Room 101A |
| 2:10 PM - 2:30 PM | Optical Measurements of Large-Aarea Diamond Coatings on Silicon Wafers for Refractive Index Determination and Uniformity Control | Volker Sittinger - Fraunhofer IST | Long Beach Convention Center: Room 101A |
| 2:10 PM - 2:30 PM | Epitaxial Growth from a Thermal Evaporator: Highly Active Arsenic Doped Single Crystal CdTe - SPONSORED STUDENT PRESENTATION | Zulkifl Hussain - Univeristy of Toledo | Long Beach Convention Center: Room 104B |
| 2:10 PM - 2:30 PM | Controlling Photochromism in Rare-Earth Oxyhydride Thin Films via Magnetron Sputtering and Upscaling | Martins Zubkins - University of Latvia | Long Beach Convention Center: Room 104A |
| 2:50 PM - 3:10 PM | HiPIMS Coatings for Micro Tools | Christoph Schiffers - CemeCon AG | Long Beach Convention Center: Room 101B |
| 2:50 PM - 3:10 PM | Broadband MWIR Absorption in PbSe Mie Metasurface Photodetectors Using Deep Neural Networks - SPONSORED STUDENT PRESENTATION | Md Koushik Alam - University of Oklahoma | Long Beach Convention Center: Room 104B |
| 2:50 PM - 3:30 PM | Yttrium Oxyhydride-Based Photochromic Coatings for Window Applications: from Lab Scale Films to Large Scale Roll-to-Roll Production - INVITED PRESENTATION | Smagul Karazhanov - University of Latvia | Long Beach Convention Center: Room 104C |
| 2:50 PM - 3:30 PM | Additive Nanomanufacturing and Dry Printing Electronics and Functional Devices - INVITED PRESENTATION | Masoud Mahjouri-Samani - Auburn University | Long Beach Convention Center: Room 104A |
| 2:50 PM - 4:10 PM | Colloquium: Rigidly Flexible - Exploring the Middle Ground in R2R Substrate Applications | Mike Simmons - Intellivation LLC Chris Stoessel - Stoessel Consulting Liz Josephson - Intellivation LLC Andrew Jack - Emerson & Renwick Joe Papalia - DTI | Long Beach Convention Center: Room 101A |
| 3:10 PM - 3:30 PM | Design and Characterization of InAs/GaSb 4ML/8ML Type-II Superlattice-Based Mid-Wave Infrared Photodetector - SPONSORED STUDENT PRESENTATION | Azad Rahman - University of Texas at Arlington | Long Beach Convention Center: Room 104B |
| 3:10 PM - 3:30 PM | A Novel Method for Low Defect Cathodic Arc Deposited Coatings | Dermot Monaghan - Gencoa Ltd | Long Beach Convention Center: Room 101B |
| 3:30 PM - 3:50 PM | W/SiC-Based Multilayer Coatings as Tritium Permeation Barriers for Fusion Environments | Mikel Garitano - Tekniker | Long Beach Convention Center: Room 104C |
| 3:30 PM - 3:50 PM | Laser Processing of Thin Films for High-Throughput Materials Discovery and Development | Chris Muratore - University of Dayton | Long Beach Convention Center: Room 104A |
| 3:30 PM - 3:50 PM | Influence of Niobium Doping on the Microstructure and Wear of TiAlON Coatings at High Temperatures | Juan Manuel González Carmona - Centro de Ingeniería y Desarrollo Industrial CIDESI | Long Beach Convention Center: Room 101B |
| 3:30 PM - 4:10 PM | Self-Assembled Oxide-Metal and Nitride-Metal Nanocomposite Thin Films for Metamaterials and Optical Sensing Applications - INVITED PRESENTATION | Di Zhang - University of Texas at Arlington | Long Beach Convention Center: Room 104B |
| 3:50 PM - 4:10 PM | TiN-based PVD multilayer coatings combined with nano-ceramic coatings on magnesium alloys for automotive applications | Adrian Claver - Public University of Navarra | Long Beach Convention Center: Room 101B |
| 3:50 PM - 4:10 PM | Mass-Produced Wireless Two-Dimensional Electronic Devices for Hazardous Vapor Sensing Arrays - SPONSORED STUDENT PRESENTATION | Nick Mikhalev - University of Dayton | Long Beach Convention Center: Room 104A |
| 3:50 PM - 4:10 PM | Influence of Silicon-to-Carbon Ratio on the Structural and the Electrochemical Performance of Si/C Thin Film Anodes for Lithium-Ion Batteries Fabricated Via Reactive Magnetron Sputtering - SPONSORED STUDENT PRESENTATION | Khadija El Kindoussy - Mohammed VI Polytechnic University | Long Beach Convention Center: Room 104C |
| 4:30 PM - 4:50 PM | Sputter Deposition of Ta-W-Au-Bi Multicomponent Alloys for Inertial Confinement Fusion Hohlraums | Gregory Taylor - Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory | Long Beach Convention Center: Room 104C |
| 4:30 PM - 5:10 PM | Aluminum Chromium Al70Cr30 Targets: Correlation Between Target Microstructure and Coated Tool Lifetime - INVITED PRESENTATION | Christos Pernagidis - Avaluxe Coating Technologies GmbH & Co KG | Long Beach Convention Center: Room 101B |
| 4:30 PM - 5:10 PM | Engineering Thin-Film Optoelectronic and Ferroelectric Materials via High-Throughput Laser Processing - INVITED PRESENTATION | Brian Everhart - AV Incorporated/U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory | Long Beach Convention Center: Room 104A |
| 4:30 PM - 5:10 PM | Optimizing Barrier Performance in Formed Flexible Bags - INVITED PRESENTATION | Todd Fayne - Pepsi Co | Long Beach Convention Center: Room 101A |
| 5:10 PM - 5:30 PM | Next Level Control of Reactive Mid-Frequency Sputtering by Automated Voltage Adjustment at Different Power Levels | Michael Muecke - Buhler Leybold Optics | Long Beach Convention Center: Room 101A |
| 5:10 PM - 5:30 PM | Advantages and Limitations of Solvent Cleaners in Cleaning Applications Before PVD Coating | Stefan Lukowski - SAFECHEM Europe GmbH | Long Beach Convention Center: Room 101B |
| 5:10 PM - 5:50 PM | Laser Spike Annealing of Thin Films for Neuromorphic Device Applications - INVITED PRESENTATION | Drake Austin - AV Incorporated/U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory | Long Beach Convention Center: Room 104A |
| 5:30 PM - 5:50 PM | AI-Enhanced Vacuum Quality Monitoring for Roll-to-Roll Processes | Lara Maroto-Diaz - Gencoa Ltd | Long Beach Convention Center: Room 101A |
| 5:30 PM - 5:50 PM | Machining Graphite and ZrO2 with Diamond Coatings | Jeffrey Barlow - CemeCon Inc. | Long Beach Convention Center: Room 101B |
| 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM | Sunset Meeting Forum: CVD and ALD Processing | Hyatt Regency Long Beach Hotel: Seaview Ballroom C (lower level) | |
| 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM | Sunset Meeting Forum: Post-Processing of Vacuum-Coated Roll-to-Roll Products | Long Beach Convention Center: Room 102A | |
| 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM | Sunset Meeting Forum: Fabrication and Performance of Optical Coatings | Hyatt Regency Long Beach Hotel: Seaview Ballroom A (lower level) | |
| 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM | Sunset Meeting Forum: Coatings for Thin Film Photovoltaics | Hyatt Regency Long Beach Hotel: Seaview Ballroom B (lower level) | |
| 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM | Sunset Meeting Forum: Tribological and Diamond-Like Coatings | Long Beach Convention Center: Room 102C | |
| 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM | Sunset Meeting Forum: Thin Film Sensors | Long Beach Convention Center: Room 102B | |
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