Basic Vacuum Technology

In March 1986 the Vacuum Group of the Institute of Physics held their first two-day training course in "Vacuum Technology" at the University of Strathclyde. The course was sponsored by thr British Vacuum Council and the lectures and seminars were given by the present authors. Since then the course has been presented on several other occasions and the authors have also given in-house courses to industrial and research establishments. From their experience they saw the need for a book which would be sufficiently broad in content to cover not only methods of production, measurement and system design and testing, but should also include the overall behaviour of gases at low pressures. This book is the end result, and should prove to be of interest to engineers, technicians and post-graduate workers who need to acquire expertise in vacuum techniques.