VPHA communication: 2nd reading distribution round (target: Jun 8)

 The email below was sent to 63 VPHA co-authors and 30 prospective co-authors.

--- 

Dear current and prospective VPHA co-authors,

We are about to start the 2nd round of distributing papers to read n VPHA.

Each of you can expect to get 3-5 papers to read within the next few days (you can view the distribution plan in the VPHA-author-info-update file, 2nd tab).

Those who can read Russian will get five papers. We have more papers in Russian that can be distributed this way, so if you can read Russian and are willing to read more, please let us know (email info@ vph-ald.com). More people are also welcome to join the reading. Especially if you know a person who can read Russian and would maybe be interested to join, you can give him/her a hint of VPHA. Volunteers can also spontaneously contact us at info@ vph-ald.com.

Those people who get less than five papers, in addition to the publications assigned to you, you could consider reading and commenting some of the central early ALD publications, e.g.:

• {Sveshnikova1970b} en ru - TiO2 on silicon
• {Suntola1976} fi swe en ru … Suntola 1st patent
• (Aleskovskii1990) en Aleskovskii, V. B. & Drozd, V. E. Principles of the precise synthesis of supermolecular objects: atomic layer epitaxy, molecular layering, chemical buildup, Acta Polytech. Scand., Chem. Technol. Ser., 1990, 195, 155-161  (not currently included in the ALD-history-evolving-file but can be added if there people provide comments, although this is outside the up-to-1986 time limit). 

VPHA HERALD Helsinki presentation files in vph-ald.com

Next week, the Finnish Centre of Excellence on Atomic Layer Deposition (ALDCoE) will organize a HERALD COST Action MP1402 workshop "ALD precursors and processes" in Helsinki (May 23-24). There will be top-class invited speakers, such as Prof. Jaan Aarik (University of Tartu), Prof. Christophe Detavernier (Ghent University), Prof. Erwin Kessels (Eindhoven University of Technology), Prof. Marc Heyns (IMEC), and Dr. Dennis Hausmann (LAM Research) --- access the full list at http://www.aldcoe.fi/herald/index.html.

ALDCoE participants and other ALD players in Finland will present their work in posters at the event, with associated 1-min 1-slide introductory talks. VPHA will have an organizational poster at the event: "Virtual project on the history of ALD: overview and current status." You can access the abstract, poster and one-slider through the VPHA webpage, http://vph-ald.com/ALD-history-publications.html, which contains a collection of references and links to significant publications dealing with the history of ALD. (If you notice that there is an ALD history -related publication missing in this page, please let us know, e.g. by emailing info@ vph-ald.com.)

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

VPHA status update 2016-05-16

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

 --- 

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.

Snapshot of VPHA progress (53% completed)

About a month ago, VPHA entered a new phase as we started actively distributing early ALD publications for reading. This activity has significantly accelerated the progress of VPHA; thank you to everyone who has participated in the work.

The graphs below show a snapshot of the VPHA author and reading situation taken May 14th. Comparison to the previous snapshots from May 5 (for authors) and April 28 (for reading) shows that good progress is taking place.

• At this moment, the total completion status is 53%. The crossover point, where the #comments received became larger than #comments needed, corresponding to >50% reading completion status, was on May 10, 2016.  
• The current number of co-authors is 63. Co-authors come from 18 countries in three continents: Belgium, Canada, Czech Republic, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Poland, Russia, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, The Netherlands, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States. 
• Work is not finished; for example, there still 59 publications in the ALD-history-evolving-file without any comments. 

VPHA progresses and the numbers change quickly. More volunteers are still welcome to join VPHA. It would be nice to say in a future update that we have four, or even five continents involved --- how about e.g. Brazil or Australia?

Finnish Seminar (TENK) on Research Integrity

The Finnish Advisory Board on Research Integrity (Tutkimuseettinen neuvottelukunta, TENK, http://www.tenk.fi/) organized on May 9 a seminar (in Finnish) "Vilppiä vai ei? Tutkimuseettinen seminaari". The seminar was very actual, as in Finland there has been lively---and good---discussion about research ethics in the recent months. It all started from an article in Helsingin Sanomat (7.2.) (see also Aivelo's science blog and Retraction watch).  I was happy to attend this event and to learn from the TENK representatives and e.g. from the insightful views shared by the rector of Aalto University, Tuula Teeri.

The guidelines of TENK, drawn up by the research community, have been signed by all Finnish universities as well as by research organizations such as my employer, VTT. One can view the TENK guidelines online; paper copies are provided upon request. The TENK webpages link also to several useful instructions, including international guidelines regarding research integrity, see http://www.tenk.fi/fi/ohjeet-ja-julkaisut.

• Hyvä tieteellinen käytäntö ja sen loukkausepäilyjen käsitteleminen Suomessa
• The Advisory Board's guidelines for responsible conduct of research
• http://www.tenk.fi/sv/arkiv/de-nya-forskningsetiska-anvisningar-och-modell-till-meritförteckning 

I have read these these guidelines several times, before and during VPHA. I recommend these or similar guidelines as essential reading for every scientist, in Finland and elsewhere.

Below is the programme of the event and some photos taken by me (Riikka Puurunen). Some of the photos have been published in Twitter (@rlpuu, hashtag #HTK-seminaari).

VPHA voting is ready for early adopters to test

VPHA voting files are ready for "early adopters" to use and test, to create the conclusive recommended reading list of early ALD publications for the ALD 2016 Ireland VPHA presentation.

You find the links to the two voting files + instructions though http://vph-ald.com/VPHAopenfiles.html (at the moment under the "under construction" heading) and in the bullets below. The early adopters can make their first vote already; you have time to update and change your vote until June 15th. At the moment, of the two options, only "option b" is open, that is, voting through the VPHA-voting-ENTRY-file.

• VPHA-voting-file (open for everyone to view)
• VPHA-voting-instructions (open for everyone to view)
• VPHA-voting-ENTRY-file (open for everyone to edit)

Baltic ALD 2016 in St Petersburg, Oct 2-4

Just announced at http://www.bald2016.ru: "The first time the Baltic Conference on Atomic Layer Deposition (BALD) will be arranged in St. Petersburg (Russia) where Prof. V.B. Aleskovskii with his colleagues and assistants created the foundations of ALD in the 1950x. The aim of the Conference is to demonstrate recent developments in the areas of technology and applications of Atomic Layer Deposition (ALD) and to show contribution of the Russian research centres to ALD applications. ..."

The conference will be organized October 2-4, 2016. Abstract submission deadline June 15th.

• My travel report from St Petersburg from November 2015 is the all-times most popular blog post of ALD History Blog. 
• Here is also link to my travel report from ALD Russia 2015 in Moscow-Dolgoprudny. At the end of this report, I wished that the international ALD community could once meet in St. Petersburg. Sometimes, dreams seem to come true!  

See you in St. Petersburg!

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

VPHA author statistics: 55 from 16 countries + space for more (updated 6.5.)

(Updated) VPHA is by its character very international. At the moment we have fiftyfive (55) co-authors from fifteen (16) countries from three (3) continents (Asia, Europe, North America). The map and pie chart below show the co-author distribution between different countries. The previous overview was made in January, when we had 41 co-authors.

New co-authors can still join and be authors of the poster planned to ALD 2016 Ireland (abstract here). Would there be scientists with interest in the history of ALD e.g. in Australia, Belgium, Brazil, China, India, Japan, Norway, Portugal, Taiwan?

VPHA communication: first ALD reviews (ALE, ML)

The email below was sent on May 4, 2016, to 54 VPHA co-authors and 35 prospective co-authors. 

 --- 

Dear VPHA co-authors and prospective co-authors,

The VPHA reading is progressing slowly but steadily. According to the VPHA-reading-overview-file, the percent of reading completed is now 46.8%. I hope that by May 14^th, this number will be >> 50%.

While studying at the general progress, I've noticed that the two reviews written by the inventors/developers of ALD (ALE, ML), have not yet received very many comments in the ALD-history-evolving-file. These are the reviews by Aleskovskii (4 comments) and Suntola (1 comment):

VPHA status update 2016-04-29

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

---

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

Organizational presentation abstract of VPHA, Helsinki, May 23-24

The abstract of the organizational poster of VPHA, "Virtual Project on the History of ALD: overview and current status" has been finalized and submitted to the combined HERALD Working group 2 workshop and 4th annual seminar of ALDCoE "ALD precursors and processes", May 23-24, 2016, Helsinki, Finland, organized by the Finnish Centre of Excellence in Atomic Layer Deposition.

The abstract can be accessed in full here: http://vph-ald.com/VPHApublications/2016MayHelsinki_VPHA-Puurunen-et-al_2016-04-28_FINAL.pdf . The abstract text is copied below.

Snapshot of VPHA reading progress (46% completed)

It is roughly two weeks ago that we started actively distributing papers to read in VPHA. The good reported earlier continues. As seen from the images below, the total number of comments increases with a high "growth rate". The fraction of publications with 0 comments decreases and the fraction of publications with the desired 3 comments increases. Of course, there is still a lot to do---46% of the work is now completed. We have now 54 co-authors in VPHA and more are still welcome to join the effort and join the ALD 2016 Ireland poster as an author.  

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

ALD History Blog is half a year - statistics shared

ALD History Blog was initiated on October 25, 2016---exactly six months ago. To celebrate ALD History Blog's half-a-year journey, I want to share some statistics blog's reading. Similar posts were written also when the blog was three months and one month old.

When I started the blog, I had no experience on blogging, only Jonas Sundqvist's invaluable BALD Engineering ALD News blog as an example. I am very happy that I eventually dared to take the step and start the blog. Before entering the statistics, I would like to briefly review some of the learnings.
(i) For the progress of the Virtual Project on the History of ALD (VPHA, vph-ald.com), the blog has of course been instrumental. We would not have the same good progress without it.
(ii) The blog has given me the opportunity to learn of what it is to have a science project blog, and how one can attract attention to it. I have learnt how important it is to share information of new posts in professional social media. For new posts, which have not been shared this way, half a day can pass without one single person viewing the post. For new posts shared in Twitter and LinkedIn, in turn, readers appear instantaneously. Sharing in Twitter, systematically with a relevant hashtag (#VPHA #ALDep), has certainly further increased the audience of the posts.
(iii) Somewhat after creating this blog, I created a separate Twitter account (@aldhistoryblog) for sharing the posts, thus no more having a need to share them directly through my personal account (@rlpuu). I think that was a good step, helping to keep things organized. Would I in the future again be in charge of some larger scientific project/unit, I would certainly again consider setting up a separate Twitter account as a communications channel.

Then, to the ALD History Blog numbers during the first 6 months of the blog (numbers as of as of April 24, 2016).

VPHA correspondence: Organizational poster in Helsinki, pls check thanks by 27.4.

The email below was sent to 53 VPHA co-authors and 34 prospective co-authors.

--- 

Dear VPHA authors and prospective co-authors,

A combined HERALD Working group 2 workshop and 4th annual seminar of ALDCoE "ALD precursors and processes" will be organized May 23-24 in Helsinki, see http://www.aldcoe.fi/herald/index.html.

As one of the organizers, I will naturally participate this event. There will be many posters by local ALD scientist. It should be good to present an overview the progress of VPHA at this event, so we plan to send in an organizational VPHA poster, similarly as we did at Baltic ALD in Tartu. A draft of the related abstract is attached to this email. <attachment not included in this ALD History Blog post>

In the Acknowledgements section, we would like to extend thanks to all VPHA participants. Please have a look at this section and let me know if you see your name missing or incorrectly spelled, or if you see other needs for revision. Please send me your requests for change latest on Wednesday, April 27.

The VPHA reading progresses nicely again, this you see e.g. from the graph included in a recent ALD History Blog post: http://aldhistory.blogspot.fi/2016/04/vpha-reading-proceeds-now-44percent-completed.html If there are new people who give their first comments in the ALD-history-evolving-file by April 27, we will update the acknowledgements with their names.

Best regards,

Riikka, VPHA coordinator

---

Riikka Puurunen (Dr.), Senior Scientist, Microsystems and Nanoelectronics; Project Manager (IPMA C)

VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, Tietotie 3, Espoo (P.O. Box 1000), FI-02044 Espoo (VTT), Finland

< >, www.vttresearch.com, www.aldcoe.fi

fi.linkedin.com/in/riikkapuurunen, vph-ald.com, aldhistory.blogspot.fi, twitter.com/rlpuu

*************** 

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

VPHA reading proceeds - now 44% completed

From the numbers, it is evident that the VPHA reading has started to progress again. This is, of course, thanks to the active spreading of papers to read. Around the time of publishing the post entitled "Many hands make light work", eight people contacted us to volunteer for the VPHA reading. 

At the moment, the ALD-history-evolving-file has 53 co-authors from 15 countries. The data in the VPHA-reading-overview-file shows that reading is now 44% completed. More co-authors are still needed and welcome to join the reading.

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

Update on the VPHA reading distribution - DL May 14

Information sent by email on April 14 to current (52) and prospective (32) VPHA co-authors. 

---

Dear VPHA current and prospective co-authors,

In VPHA, we have now paired authors and publications and are actively spreading publications for co-authors to read. Everyone should receive by email publications to read that match their language skills and when possible also research interests. Thank you Oksana, Yury and Henrik for your great efforts here! 

Let us agree that everyone should preferably leave their comments in the ALD-history-evolving-file latest on May 14th, so that we can make the next large status check from May 15th on. Let us remember to update the VPHA-reading-overview-file too, to reflect the number of comments per paper. 

VPHA Correspondence - "Many hands make light work"

The email below was sent today to 30 potential VPHA co-authors as a check-point to see, who we will send out early ALD publications for reading and commenting to finalize the VPHA reading (we are now about 40% done). 

If you read this message and have not yet been in our list of prospective co-authors, this would be a very good time to join the effort, also listed as a collaboration at european-ald.net. For sharing a bit of your time and brainpower with us, you will get to be an author of the poster presentation at ALD 2016. Please indicate your interest e.g. in an email sent to info@ vph-ald.com. Please tell in your message the languages in which you can read publications and optionally your ALD-related speciality and other relevant info. 

Everyone with some ALD knowledge is welcome to join and help to get this important work completed. We already have participants from Europe, North America and Asia. It would be nice to have someone involved from Australia and South America, where I know that people are working with ALD. Perhaps there is already someone working with ALD in Africa, too?

**** prospective co-author email begins ****

Title: VPHA question - "Many hands make light work"

Dear ____,

We are preparing to actively send out papers for reading in VPHA (see the earlier message copied below). As you have earlier expressed your interest in participating in the VPHA reading, we would like to include you in the list of people who will get papers. However, before doing this, we would like to re-confirm your interest in participation.

VPHA publication distribution - author info update (5.4.)

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

 -- 

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)  

ALD workshop England 1985 - what else is missing from the conference list?

Yesterday while reading the licentiate's thesis of Olli Jylhä (with six appended publications!) for VPHA, I ran into an ALD (ALE) workshop of which I was not aware earlier: England, UK, in 1985 (reference 10 in the picture). If someone knows more of the event (e.g., the name(s) of the organizer(s), how many people were present, etc), we like to collect this information in the VPHA-ALD-conference-list.

Now we have ALE two symposia/workshops listed in the VPHA-ALD-conference-list before the first International Symposium on ALE. Would there have been more, are we still missing some? France? Japan? USA? Other countries?

Photo from the reference list of the licentiate's thesis of Olli Jylhä,  Tampere University of Technology, 1986. By Riikka Puurunen, published first in Twitter. 

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

History of ALD terminology: Growth per cycle (GPC)

Growth per cycle (GPC) is a term that is increasingly often used in ALD literature. Since when has it been used? Who has created it, or has it been created by many?

A discussion chain was just started in LinkedIn in the ALD - Atomic Layer Deposition group to find answers to these questions. Link to LinkedIn discussion chain: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/1885076/1885076-6122818578006757376. Your views appreciated!


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