VPHA status update 2.11.2020 - November Networking ... , ALD OpenLearning, Erratum, ALD Stories...

 The email below was sent to 79 VPHA contributors and 70 prospective contributors.

 From: Puurunen Riikka <> 

Sent: maanantai 2. marraskuuta 2020 16.27
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Subject: VPHA status update 2.11.2020 - November Networking, ALD OpenLearning, Erratum, ALD Stories...

 Dear VPHA contributors and prospective contributors,

 A year has passed since the previous update on the Virtual Project on the History of ALD (VPHA), copy here.

 While there has been no actively coordinated activities in VPHA within the past year, still, there has been progress taking place related to understanding and spreading info of the history of ALD and the two independent inventions. Below, you find links to blog posts that tell more of an Aalto OpenLearning platform on ALD; discuss the future of the vph-ald.com website; analyse an erratum written on an article that deals with the history of ALD; and share of a podcast in the Beneq ALD stories podcast, episode on the history of ALD, where I had the honor of being interviewed.  

VPHA status update 7.11.2019: November Networking ... and request to recommend ALD reviews

The email below was sent to 79 VPHA contributors and 70 prospective contributors.

From: Puurunen Riikka <riikka.puurunen@aalto.fi>
Sent: torstai 7. marraskuuta 2019 14.17
To: info @ vph-ald.com
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Subject: VPHA status update 7.11.2019: November Networking ... and request to recommend ALD reviews

Dear VPHA contributors and prospective contributors,

With this email, I would like to update you recent progress around the interest area of the Virtual Project on the History of ALD (VPHA) since the previous VPHA status update on July 9.

1. “November Networking – ALD at Aalto University”. This is an event to be organized at Aalto University on November 29 afternoon, open for anyone to attend. In addition to local presentations and posters, there will be an international invited talk (Prof. Ruud van Ommen). If someone from the VPHA collaborators is interested to participate, you are most welcome to do so; poster presentation slots are still available (re-registration needed), and one can also come to network without any presentation. More info of the event and links below.

2. Request to recommend review articles on ALD. Along with November Networking – ALD at Aalto University (29.11.2019), the plan is to open an Aalto OpenLearning site related to Atomic Layer deposition, aimed to benefit the global ALD community. The site will start with small initially, mainly linking to existing contents, with the purpose to expand later in contents. The first original item to be created is a listing of recommended reviews on ALD.

To build a balanced, justified recommended reading list for ALD reviews, I welcome all VPHA contributors and prospective contributors (and others as well!) to write and share recommendations for their favourite ALD review(s) in recommended-ALD-reviews-evolving-file (it is a Google Docs file). More information in the blog post: http://aldhistory.blogspot.com/2019/11/advance-info-on-openlearning-site-and-request-to-recommend-reviews.html, reposted from Catalysis Professor’s Open.

VPHA status update 9.7.2019: conferences, ALD thesis list, Zenodo, ORCID

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Sent: tiistai 9. heinäkuuta 2019 12.10
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Subject: VPHA status update 9.7.2019: conferences, ALD thesis list, Zenodo, ORCID / poster thesis list DL 11.7.

Dear VPHA contributors and prospective contributors, 

With this email, we would like to update you with the progress in Virtual Project on the History of ALD (VPHA) since the previous general VPHA status update on April 28. 

Major steps forward have been the following:   

·       As many contributors supported the idea of Zenodo sharing, and noone opposed it,  Zenodo community for the Virtual Project on the History of ALD has been created: https://zenodo.org/communities/vpha/. The community contains currently only one document, more to come. Before uploading more, we need to collect a list of ORCID identifiers of our contributors (more on that below). 

·       Poster on the doctoral thesis list on ALD has been created and presented at the EuroCVD-BalticALD 2019 conference (https://www.eurocvd-balticald2019.lu/). Twitter notes: #CVDALD2019 #VPHA. 

You can find below more information on the next steps in VPHA:

VPHA status update 28.4.2019 - poster abstracts accepted + Zenodo sharing?

The email below was sent to 78 VPHA contributors and 69 prospective contributors.  

From: Puurunen Riikka < >
Sent: sunnuntai 28. huhtikuuta 2019 10.44
Subject: VPHA status update April 2019 - poster abstracts accepted + Zenodo sharing?

Dear VPHA contributors and prospective contributions,

Since the previous general VPHA status update on January 17, we submitted two abstracts for posters at coming conferences - 1st abstract to EuroCVD-BalticALD in June in Luxembourg and 2nd abstract to ALD 2019 in Bellevue, Washington in July. It is my pleasure to inform you with this email that both abstracts have been accepted for presentation.

We will start to prepare the posters likely in May - expect more communication on this later. The purpose is to continue building on the ALD doctoral thesis list so that it will be as complete as possible (up to the end of 2018) when the posters are made, and at the same time it will allow conference participants to view it and notice missing items and help us make it still more complete for the review article which is being planned.

Related to the two abstracts and as well longer-plan archiving of VPHA, we propose to share the abstracts publicly already.

VPHA status update 17.1.2019

The emails below were sent on 17.1.2019 to 76 VPHA contributors and 66 prospective contributors.

From: Puurunen Riikka >>
Sent: 17. tammikuuta 2019 19:45
Subject: FW: VPHA status update 17.1.2019 / brief action item DL 20.1., please
Importance: High

Dear prospective VPHA contributors,

Best wishes for 2019!

The VPHA status update below was just submitted to all VPHA contributors <attachment and hyperlinks removed>.

As you can read, we are planning to activate VPHA in 2019 again. We will start with poster presentations related to the doctoral thesis list gathered.

New contributors are welcome to join the VPHA activities. You are most welcome to join, and you can ask your ALD-informed colleague to join, too.

Best regards,

Riikka Puurunen, voluntary VPHA coordinator

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Riikka Puurunen, Associate professor, Catalysis Science and Technology

Aalto University, School of Chemical Engineering, Department of Chemical and Metallurgical Engineering

Visiting address: Kemistintie 1, 02150 Espoo, Finland <>

Mail address: P.O. Box 16100, FI-00076 AALTO, Finland
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aalto.fi/cmet/catalysis, @AaltoCatalysis, blog catprofopen, people.aalto.fi, vph-ald.com, aldhistory.blogspot.fi

VPHA status update 22.7.2018 - ECS Transactions info

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From: Puurunen Riikka
Sent: 22 July 2018 22:31
To: info @ vph-ald.com
Cc: Puurunen Riikka; jonas.sundqvist@ <>
Subject: VPHA status update 22.7.2018 - ECS Transactions info

Dear current and prospective VPHA contributors,

This VPHA update shares information on an ECS Transactions article related to an invited talk at the ECS fall symposium. The previous VPHA status update was sent on May 28, 2018. All VPHA status updates published in the ALD History Blog can be viewed in this link.

Best regards,

Riikka Puurunen, voluntary VPHA coordinator

VPHA status update 28.5.2018 - 2018 Millennium Technology Prize and VPHA's next steps

The message below was sent to 76 VPHA contributors and 54 prospective contributors.  

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From: Puurunen Riikka
Sent: 28. toukokuuta 2018 16:31
To: info vph-ald.com
Cc: Puurunen Riikka <>; Jonas Sundqvist <>
Subject: VPHA status update 28.5.2018 - 2018 Millennium Technology Prize and VPHA's next steps

Dear VPHA contributors and prospective contributors,

This is the first status update of the Virtual Project on the History of ALD (VPHA) in year 2018 - earlier updates can be found in this link.

This update shares information on the following topics:

* The 2018 Millennium Technology Prize to Dr. Tuomo Suntola

* Words of thank to the community by Dr. Tuomo Suntola

* Puurunen’s invited talk at the ECS fall 2018 ALD symposium

* VPHA’s next step

With best regards,

Riikka Puurunen, VPHA’s voluntary coordinator

Season's greetings from Aalto University

Greetings were sent to all VPHA contributors (76) and prospective contributors (53). More people are still welcome to join VPHA.

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Dear VPHA contributors and prospective contributors,

With this Aalto University electronic card, I wish you all happy holiday season and a prosperous 2018.

I have been slower in communicating in the last months about VPHA progress than I thought - this is because of the many duties and things to learn as a new professor and a group leader. I am still aiming for a final review article to be made from within VPHA. For this, some reading is probably still needed, updating information on the theses & conferences, sorting out data to create final tables. Also, we should discuss and decide how to archive the ALD-history-evolving-file after VPHA has ended. Expect more communication on this in the first months of 2018.

Best regards,

Riikka Puurunen, VPHA coordinator

Aalto University, professor, Catalysis Science and Technology

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

VPHA status update 4.6.2017 - Millennium Prize, Lindfors, HERALD Riga, VPHA's future

The status update copied below was sent to 76 current and 47 prospective VPHA contributors. 

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From: Puurunen Riikka
Sent: 04 June 2017 09:10
Subject: VPHA status update June 2017 - Millennium Prize support, Lindfors in memoriam, HERALD Riga, future of VPHA

Dear current and prospective VPHA contributors,

This is the second update of the Virtual Project on the History of ALD (VPHA) in year 2017. The previous VPHA status update was set on March 22, 2017, link here.

This update shares information on the following topics:

1. Millennium Technology Prize 2018 nomination - supporting letters welcome
2. Mr. Sven Lindfors in memoriam
3. Other posts
4. Future activities in VPHA

VPHA status update 22.3.2017

The status update below was sent to 76 VPHA contributors and 46 prospective contributors. To register to get the next updates, please email info@ vph-ald.com.

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Subject: VPHA status update 22.3.2017

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Cc: Puurunen Riikka < >, Sundqvist Jonas < >

Dear current and prospective VPHA contributors,

This is the first VPHA status update in year 2017. For VPHA, this year has started with significant visibility: the review article published in JVSTA was the most read of all articles published in JVSTA. The previous VPHA status update was published on December 19, 2016. This update discusses the following topics:

1. ALD history review article(s) in JVSTA
2. Boulder & NanoSolutions & particle ALD -related ALD History Blog post + Weimer's guest post
3. About the earlier ALD history activities + about VPHA's future
4. Recent VPHA-related Wikipedia updates
5. New affiliation by Puurunen (professor, Aalto University)
6. Other posts in ALD History Blog (Pessa; ethics; PillarHall)
   

VPHA status update 19.12.2016

The email below was sent to 76 VPHA co-authors and 40 prospective co-authors. 

From: Puurunen Riikka
Sent: 19. joulukuuta 2016 9:23
To: info@ vph-ald.com
Cc: Puurunen Riikka; Sundqvist Jonas

Subject: VPHA status update 19.12.2016

Dear VPHA co-authors and prospective co-authors,

With this general status update, I would like to inform you of the publication of the VPHA review article in JVSTA and update on other recent progress. The previous update was sent on October 30, 2016. Please read more below on the following topics:

1. VPHA JVSTA review published

2. VPHA reading status

3. VPHA's lists on reviews, conferences and theses to be completed

4. Translation of some Molecular Layering papers?

5. Other posts in the ALD History Blog

Wishing everyone happy holidays and the best of luck for the coming year,

Riikka Puurunen, VPHA coordinator

VPHA status update 2016-10-30

The email below was sent to 75 VPHA co-authors and 38 prospective co-authors. 

From: Puurunen Riikka
Sent: 30. lokakuuta 2016 17:26
To: info@ vph-ald.com
Cc: Puurunen Riikka; Sundqvist Jonas
Subject: VPHA status update 30.10.2016

Dear VPHA co-authors and prospective co-authors,

With this update, I would like to give an overview of the recent and future activities of the Virtual Project on the History of ALD (VPHA). The previous update was made on August 15, 2016, and this status update reviews the progress since then.  Read more below on the following topics:

• Status of VPHA JVSTA manuscript
• Organizational VPHA presentation at Baltic ALD 2016, St. Petersburg
• ALD-history-evolving-file: reading and commenting status
• New hashtags in Twitter related to ALD’s history
• ALD History Blog one year old
• ALD History Blog posts on other topics
• Next steps 

VPHA status update 15.8.2016

The VPHA status update below was sent by email to 71 VPHA co-authors and 31 prospective co-authors. More volunteers are still welcome to join the VPHA reading & commenting effort. 

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 Dear VPHA co-authors and prospective co-authors,

Much has happened regarding the understanding of the early history of ALD in the last two months since the previous general VPHA status update on May 16 --- you can access earlier VPHA status updates here. We are now starting active preparations for the next steps, so it is a good time to review the progress made so far.

Below, you find and update on the following topics:

• VPHA poster at ALD 2016, with results of VPHA voting
• Next step: VPHA reading, 3rd commenting round to come
• Next step: Letter/article to JVSTA special issue (DL September 6)
• Invited plenary talk by Prof. Anatoly Malygin at ALD 2016
• ALD Innovation Prize at ALD 2016 to Dr. Suvi Haukka, ASM, Finland
• Recent ALD-related advances in Wikipedia (#WikiALD)
• About an increased Twitter activity related to (#ALDep)
• VPHA ALD thesis list with >300 entries, many missing still?
• New in ALD History Blog: ALD Glossary
• Other ALD History Blog posts

VPHA status update 2016-05-16

 The status update below was sent to 63 co-authors and 30 prospective co-authors.

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Dear VPHA co-authors and prospective co-authors,

VPHA has progressed significantly during the past weeks. Here, you find an update on the following topics:

1. VPHA reading progress – Next check June 8
2. VPHA voting for conclusive recommended reading list, ALD 2016 poster: DL June 15
3. VPHA ALD History Review reminder
4. VPHA organisational poster at Helsinki ALDCoE/HERALD workshop
5. A comment without name in ALD-history-evolving-file
6. ALD-history-evolving-file how-to: Please preferably copy-paste instead of writing in the file directly
7. Other ALD History blog posts 

The previous update was sent on April 29th; you can access earlier updates collectively in this link.

VPHA status update 2016-04-29

 The status update below was sent to 54 co-authors and 35 prospective co-authors.

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Dear VPHA co-authors and prospective co-authors,

About a month has passed since the previous status update on March 31. It is a good time to stop again and see what has been the progress of last month. You can access previous updates in this link. This status update contains information on the following topics:

1 VPHA reading for ALD 2016 Dublin

2 LinkedIn ALD terminology discussion: GPC

3 ALD conference list

4 VPHA organizational poster in the HERALD Helsinki meeting

5 ALD History Blog statistics after half a year of the blog

VPHA publication distribution - author info update (5.4.)

The message below was sent to 52 VPHA co-authors and 32 prospective co-authors 

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Dear VPHA co-authors and prospective co-authors:

This update continues on a topic raised in the latest VPHA status update (31.3., point 2, #2).

To get the VPHA reading done, we are planning to distribute the remaining publications for VPHA co-authors and prospective co-authors for reading. The information of authors and publications is being paired in an open Google spreadsheet called VPHA-author-info-update; the info is in the 2nd tab called “reading-distribution” (link is embedded in the name and you can always find it through http://vph-ald.com/VPHAopenfiles.html). The file is open for everyone to view and comment.

To pair authors and publications to distribute for reading, for each co-author, we list

• (Name, of course)
• Languages in which one can read publications (the current list is the first draft and probably misses a lot of language information)
• Optional: information on a person’s area of specialism
• Optional: knowledge of specific types of papers one wishes to get (some wishes can be accommodated, but it will probably not be possible to accommodate all)  

VPHA status update 2016-03-31

 The status update below was sent to 52 co-authors and 30 prospective co-authors.

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Dear VPHA co-authors and prospective co-authors,

This VPHA status update shares progress in the following topics. The previous VPHA update was dated 12.2.2016, earlier updates can be accessed here.

• 1.       VPHA abstract to Ireland ALD 2016: a poster
• 2.       VPHA reading status & preparing to Ireland ALD 2016
• 3.       VPHA listed as a Collaboration in HERALD
• 4.       Worldwide list: ALD theses
• 5.       Worldwide list: reviews
• 6.       Worldwide list: conferences
• 7.       ALD terminology discussion
• 8.       Other ALD History Blog posts

VPHA status update 2016-02-12

The status update below was sent to 49 co-authors and 32 prospective co-authors.

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Dear VPHA co-authors and prospective co-authors,

In this VPHA status update, you find information on the following items:

1. VPHA abstract to ALD 2016 conference (new DL: Feb 17)
2. ALD thesis list - 183 entries, and many missing
3. Wikimedia Commons ALD collection
4. Wikipedia updates #WikiALD
5. VPHA in numbers
6. Other ALD History Blog posts

VPHA status update 2016-01-22

The status update below was sent to 45 co-authors and 32 prospective co-authors.

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Dear current and prospective VPHA co-authors,

VPHA progresses. In this update, you find information on:

1. New: ALD thesis list
2. Questions to the ALD History review
3. Wikipedia update
4. ALD terminology discussion
5. ALD 2016 abstract
6. VPHA in numbers

VPHA status update email 2016-01-14

The status update below was sent to 42 co-authors and 33 prospective co-authors. 

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Dear current and prospective VPHA co-authors,

VPHA progresses. A short status update again, with the following topics

1. Questions for the ALD History Review
2. VPHA reading, first priority: publications with no comments yet
3. How to navigate in massive VPHA files
4. Other recent ALD History Blog posts