This article investigates the form & structure of coatings formed by the deposition of accelerated elemental & alloy nanoparticles. The nanoparticles are formed by a "terminated gas condensation" technique & produced by magnetron sputtering, followed by thermalization & condensation in high pressure zones. The nanoparticles formed in this environment are further refined through a series of apertures & differentially pumped zones until the refined beam is passed on to the high vacuum sample chamber, hence "terminated gas condensation." The nanoparticles generated are negatively charged & may be mass selected by linear quadruple & accelerated towards a substrate to form a surface coating or film. These coatings are of interest for many applications such as catalytic studies of soft landed nanoparticles, gas sensors, electronic materials on plastics & many more.
