As a Member Society of the American Institute of Physics (AIP) and as a close partner, AVS adheres to the policies outlined by AIP for Web posting of papers published in AVS journals. AVS grants to the author(s) of papers submitted to or published in one of the AVS journals the right to post and update the article on the Internet with the following specifications. Please contact AIP’s Office of Rights & Permissions (rights@aip.org) with any questions.

On the authors' and employers' webpages:

• There are no format restrictions; files prepared and/or formatted by AVS or its vendors (e.g., the PDF, PostScript, or HTML article files published in the online journals and proceedings) may be used for this purpose. If a fee is charged for any use, AVS permission must be obtained.
• An appropriate copyright notice must be included along with the full citation for the published paper and a Web link to AVS's official online version of the abstract.

On free-access E-print servers:

• Author-prepared files only may be used; files prepared and/or formatted by AVS or its vendors (e.g., the PDF, PostScript, or HTML article files published in the online journals and proceedings) may not be used for this purpose.
• An appropriate copyright notice must be included along with the full citation for the published paper and a Web link to AVS's official online version of the abstract.

Format for copyright notices

After publication by AVS, the author is required to post the following copyright notice:

along with the following message:

Prior to publication by AVS, the notice should state:

Creating links

To create a link to your article* in an AVS journal, you need to know the publication code for the journal, the volume number and the starting page number or citation identifier (article number). The general format for the URL is:

http://link.aip.org/link/?pub/vol/page, where

Example: To link to S. Gomez, R. J. Belen, M. Kiehlbauch, and E. S. Aydil, J. Vac. Sci. Technol. A 22, 606 (2004).

*Article links go to the online abstract, which contains links to all available full-text formats.