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Overview of doctoral theses on Atomic Layer Deposition collected in the Virtual Project on the History of ALD
Atomic Layer Deposition (ALD) is a materials growth technique that has become globally important
during the past decades. In 2018 the Finnish inventor of ALD, Tuomo Suntola, received the Millennium
Technology Prize.
ALD has been discovered independently twice, under the names Molecular Layering (ML) in the 1960s in
the USSR and Atomic Layer Epitaxy (ALE) in 1974 in Finland. The Virtual Project on the History of
ALD (VPHA) is a volunteer-based Open Science effort set up in 2013 [2] to clarify the early days of
ALD. Especially the ML path has remained poorly known and acknowledged until recently. The core
activity of VPHA is to overview early ALD publications up to 1986. VPHA has already resulted in four
scientific journal articles [2-5] and several presentations at international conferences.
This poster will overview doctoral theses worldwide related to ALD up to year 2018. The doctoral thesis
list has been built by combining the lists of Ref. 4 and the exhibition material 40 Years of ALD in Finland
- Photos, Stories (FinALD40) [6], and allowing volunteers to enter missing information (open list in
http://vph-ald.com/VPHAopenfiles.html). At the time of writing the abstract, the doctoral thesis collection
contains close to 500 entries. The list is likely not yet complete and more entries are welcome. More
volunteers are also still welcome to join and contribute in the VPHA
GNU Radio
GNU Radio is a free & open-source software development toolkit that provides signal processing blocks to implement software radios. It can be used with readily-available, low-cost external RF hardware to create software-defined radios, or without hardware in a simulation-like environment. It is widely used in hobbyist, academic, and commercial environments to support both wireless communications research and real-world radio systems