In the present study a Pd-Ni-P film has been fabricated by electroless alloy plating. The fabricated Pd-Ni-P film was found to be a metallic glass on the basis of two features, namely, an amorphous structure and a glass transition followed by crystallization during heating. The thermal stability of the supercooled liquid region, however, was lower than that of bulk Pd-Ni-P metallic glass. And unlike the conventional metallic glasses, the fabricated Pd-Ni-P film did not have a uniform microstructure. The non-uniform microstructure of this film resulted from the inhomogeneous distribution of the free Volume accompanying the electroless alloy plating reaction. (C) 2008 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.