The Vacuum Technology Division (VT) serves as a forum for research in achieving, maintaining, measuring, and analyzing vacuum across a wide range of pressures, gas compositions, and applications. The VTD committee members include representatives from the vacuum technology industry, national laboratories, and academic institutions, possessing degrees in the physical sciences and engineering, and at a wide range of career levels, united by their enthusiasm for all things vacuum. Traditionally, the VTD sessions include presentations on pressure measurement, gas composition analysis, leak detection, and vacuum simulation, as well as vacuum systems for particle accelerators, fusion reactors, quantum systems, and gravitational interferometry. Notable recent additions to the VTD program are sessions on fusion reactor vessels and sustainability. The VTD Poster session features the VTD Student Poster Competition, where students of any discipline are invited to share their innovative solutions to vacuum challenges. Awards are also given to exceptional oral presentations by students at the Symposium.
VT1: Vacuum Measurement, Partial Pressure, and Gas Analysis
- Masatoshi Ono, Vacuum Products Corporation, Japan, “Novel Diaphragm Vacuum Gauge”
VT2: Vacuum Pumping and Extreme High Vacuum
VT3: Gas Dynamics, Modeling, and Simulation
VT4: Leaks, Flows, and Material Outgassing
- Brad Shaw, Leak Testing Corporation, “Improved Reliability of High Sensitivity Leak Testing of Large Chambers”
VT5: Aerospace and Large Vacuum Systems
- Michael Zucker, LIGO, “Update on the A+ Upgrade to LIGO and the COSMIC Explorer”
VT6: Particle Accelerators
- Christina Vallgren, Terapet, Switzerland, “Terapet: Improving Proton Therapy for Cancer Treatment”
VT7: Particle Control, Quality Control, Ultraclean Systems
- Faye Delphine, CNES, France, “On the Ground and In-Orbit Decontamination Strategies for Space Equipment”
VT8: Vacuum Technology for Quantum Applications
- Oliver Burrow, Strathclyde University, UK, “Stand-Alone Vacuum Cells for Compact Ultracold Quantum Technologies”
- Richard Versluis, TNO/QuTech, Delft, Netherlands, “Hybrid Quantum-HPC Computing Clouds in Europe”
VT9: Vacuum Technology for Fusion Research
VT10: Two is Better than One: Coupled Phenomena
- Mengjia Gaowei, Brookhaven National Laboratory, “Cs Intercalation of 2d Material Encapsulated Photocathodes”
VT11: Environmentally Sustainable Vacuum Technology
- Yohei Yoda, EBARA, Japan, “Saving Energy of Subfab Equipment for Semiconductor Manufacturing”
VT12: Vacuum Technology Poster Session