Titanium: A Perfect Material For Optical Coating

Titanium is an important metal element that reacts with oxygen to form a variety of oxides - TiO, TiO2, Ti2O3, and Ti3O5. All of the above oxides can be evaporated and subsequently oxidized to the final stable phase TiO2. Titanium dioxide thin films are widely used as durable protective coatings in multilayer structures of laser mirrors, beam splitters, cold mirrors and heat mirrors.

Laser Mirror Film Coating

It is known to us that the refractive index is one of the basic properties of optical materials, and it is closely related to the electron polarizability of ions and the local field within the material. The evaluation of the refractive index of optical materials is important, especially for applications in integrated optics such as switches, filters and modulators. Therefore, the refractive index of the material is a key parameter in device design.

The optical application of TiO2 film is not only due to the excellent optical properties that it maintains high thermal stability, chemical stability and durability in harsh environments. More importantly, titanium dioxide has high transmittance and high refractive index in the visible spectrum, so they are suitable for making anti-reflective coatings, multilayer optical coatings (used as optical filters), photovoltaic devices and photocatalysts, etc.

Titanium dioxide (TiO2) films are widely used as high refractive index thin film materials in the visible light region. It is a perfect combination with SiO2, which is commonly used as a low refractive index thin film material to produce a thin film multilayer dielectric coating composed of alternating layers of a high refractive index material and a low refractive index material. The carbon dioxide film is usually obtained by sputtering or vacuum evaporation, and the materials used in the two processes are referred to as a titanium dioxide sputtering target and titanium dioxide evaporation pellets, respectively. Several parameters (raw material purity, vacuum tightness, reaction time, etc.) should be carefully controlled during the deposition process to prepare a high-quality TiO2 film.

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