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Experience using a high vacuum sputter deposition system over a two ye
ar period has shown it to be a reliable, economical way to prepare iso
topically enriched targets. The present paper gives a survey of the ma
ny types of samples prepared so far and in some detail deals with the
problem of impurities related to the procedure and their possible elim
ination.