hi, Please advise. What is the best conditions for the titanium dioxide coating at what temperatures and under what physical conditions (pressure, ...) is the RF sputtering method?
Good to use a Titanium metal target, and do reactive temperature.
Polycrystalline deposits of TiO2 can be obtained by RF sputtering at an appropriate power say (300 Watts on a 4 inch dia target), and a suitable sputtering gas ambient of Ar+O2 gas mixture.
TiO2 can crystallise either in the Rutile or the Anatase form.
Achieving Rutile phase demands higher substrate temperature .
Check the literature on what has been done so far on sputtered TiO2 coatings to get an idea on the substrate temperature.
Alternately you can deposit at a lower temperature, and post anneal your films to obtain a crystalline TiO2 layer. Try to select substrate that can withstand high temperature (such as fused quartz, or oxidised silicon substrates), as you will be annealing at quite high a temperature (> 400 deg C. You may have to optimise your annealing temperature.