Evaporation vs. Sputtering — What's the Difference?

Evaporation is a type of vaporization that occurs on the surface of a liquid as it changes into the gas phase. The surrounding gas must not be saturated with the evaporating substance.

In physics, sputtering is a phenomenon in which microscopic particles of a solid material are ejected from its surface, after the material is itself bombarded by energetic particles of a plasma or gas. It occurs naturally in outer space, and can be an unwelcome source of wear in precision components.

The process of turning from liquid into vapour

To spit out or spray particles of saliva or food from the mouth in noisy bursts.

To convert or change into a vapor.

To spit out words or sounds in an excited or confused manner.

To draw off in the form of vapor.

To make sporadic spitting or popping sounds

To draw moisture from, as by heating, leaving only the dry solid portion.

(Physics) To cause the atoms of a solid to be removed from the surface by bombardment with atoms in a discharge tube.

To deposit (a metal) on a substrate by vacuum sublimation.

To eject in short bursts with spitting or popping sounds.

To change into vapor.

To utter in an excited or confused manner.

To pass off in or as vapor.

(Physics) To coat (a solid surface) with metal atoms by sputtering.

To produce vapor.

The act or sound of sputtering.

To disappear; vanish

Matter emitted in sputtering.

The process of a liquid converting to the gaseous state.

Excited or confused utterance.

The process in which all or a portion of liquid (in a container) is turned into vapour, in order to increase the concentration of solid matter in the mixture.

Present participle of sputter

(archaic) That which is evaporated; vapor.

A noise that sputters.

The process by which any substance is converted from a liquid state into, and carried off in, vapor; as, the evaporation of water, of ether, of camphor.

The ejection of atoms from the surface of a solid or liquid following bombardment with ions, atoms or molecules; used to prepare a thin layer of material on an object.

The transformation of a portion of a fluid into vapor, in order to obtain the fixed matter contained in it in a state of greater consistence.

The noise of something spattering or sputtering explosively;

That which is evaporated; vapor.

Emitting or making sporadic spitting or popping sounds;

See Vaporization.

The process of becoming a vapor

The process of extracting moisture