A new sputter technique for high rate deposition of TiO2 was developed for
applying to common planar magnetron sputter system. With this technique, us
ing plasma sprayed TiO2-x targets and a sputter gas of a few percent of O-2
diluted with Ar, TiO2 films are deposited with a high deposition rate effi
ciency (deposition rate per applied power density) being almost eight times
larger than that of the conventional sputter method using Ti target and O-
2 sputter gas. (C) 1999 Elsevier Science S.A. All rights reserved.