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.

On U.S. NIH's PubMed Central repository:

• In compliance with the Public Access Policy of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) of the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, the AVS will automatically deposit, with the National Library of Medicine’s PubMed Central (PMC) online repository, any journal article published after 6 April 2008 that reports research funded, at least in part, by the NIH. AVS will deposit the article with PMC in final, published form, along with its associated metadata, upon publication, and will provide authors with the PMCID number once it has been assigned. Please note, however, that the full text of the article will not become available on PMC until one year after publication.
• Authors need only to sign the AVS Transfer of Copyright Agreement without any amendments or substitutions in order to be fully compliant with institutional repository requirements, such as those imposed by Harvard, MIT, and other universities. Our agreement respects the spirit of the initiative toward self-archiving of material and supports the basic premise that authors have freedom to reuse their own work for scholarly, noncommercial purposes.
• Please contact AIP’s Office of Rights & Permissions (rights@aip.org) with any questions.

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.