Object

• system: The basis of the project is that Plasma Quest Ltd will supply a laboratory scale sputtering system to the University of York.

• process: Our films are manufactured using a state of the art sputtering process which applies metal alloys to the base film.

• technology: This project aims to evaluate the performance of a novel sputtering technology owned by PQL for applications in information storage technologies.

• film: We have demonstrated the HiTUS technology is capable of controlling the grain size in the sputtered films.

• noise: In Daimonique's ear, Jordan makes muffled sputtering noises.

• spark: The words sputtered sparks off the page, blinding him.

Preposition: into

• life: Emap recalls the disastrous birth of Heat and just keeps spending and evolving editorial until the damn thing sputters into life.

Modifies a noun

• deposition: Plasma Quest are a British SME which manufacture a novel sputter deposition tool for magnetic materials.

• ion: All the instruments are fitted with sputter ion guns to allow compositional depth profiling to a depth of 1 micron.

• cleaning: It is only applicable to instruments which incorporate an ion gun for sputter cleaning.

• machine: Dr. Chris Marrows said: " We are in effect spray painting with atoms in the sputter machine.

• technology: PQL's sputter deposition technology offers an attractive alternative, with commercial benefits having already been demonstrated.

Modifying Another Word

• away: Then you will soon hear it sputtering away, mad to be made into tea.

• then: Car ran fine for a mile or two, and then sputtered to a stop.

Noun used with modifier

• magnetron: Of those, magnetron sputter depositions offer most potential.

• engine: She could hear the engine sputter, then roar into life.

Preposition: from

• target: The NanoTest was used to investigate diamond-like carbon films on silicon which were prepared by magnetron sputtering from a graphite target.

Followed by an intransitive particle

• out: Evidently my overloaded sense of wonder had finally sputtered out.