This invention focuses on electrooptic devices and in particular on electrochromic devices with many aspects directed towards automotive EC mirrors. Each contact includes a main body, a spring portion extending upwardly from the main body, and a tail portion defining a receiving space in a vertical plane. A pressurized gas is injected into the process zone to direct the liquefied metal toward the surface of the target to splatter the liquefied metal on the surface, thereby forming a coating having the metal on at least a portion of the surface of the target that exhibits reduced contamination from the environment. The change of the magnetoresistance of the element is based on a change of current flowing through the tunneling layer between the pinned layer and the free layer. At the same time of determining k, a plurality of multiplacation on and i are accomplished in parallel.