Nov 29: Story of a cover image, "Reconstruction of the first ALE experiment"

November 29, 2014, it was exactly 40 years since the filing of the first patent on Atomic Layer Epitaxy by Suntola and Antson (FIN 52359). To celebrate this, the Finnish Centre of Excellence on Atomic Layer Deposition (ALDCoE) released the material of the exhibition "40 Years of ALD in Finland - Photos, Stories" (FinALD40) in the internet. Originally, this exhibition had been created for the Baltic ALD 2014 conference in Helsinki, May 12-13, 2014.

Today, one year later, I want to tell you the story behind the cover image of the internet release of the the FinALD40 exhibition material. The cover image is called: "reconstruction of the first ALE experiment" and is shown in the next figure.

"Reconstruction of the first ALE experiment". © Riikka Puurunen 2014

For Finnish readers: Scientific aphorisms sought in competition by Aforismiyhdistys and Tieteen päivät

Scientific aphorisms in Finnish language are sought in a competition by Aforismiyhdistys ("Aphorism club") and Tieteen päivät ("Finnish Science days"): http://aforismiyhdistys.fi/tiedeaforismikilpailu/. The competition is open until the end of year 2015.

In addition to sending in one's own aphorisms, one can send in influental words by other people, with proper citation.

I can very well think that Suntola and the many other co-workers who have developed and industrialized ALD in Finland have left behind powerful words to remember. Finnish colleagues: this is the right time to think back on words that are worth remembering, and to send them in.

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Virtual Project on the History of ALD (VPHA) - in atmosphere of Openness, Respect, and Trust