Abstract
A survey of the optical properties and mechanical loss of metal-oxide thin films is reported in a search for optimum materials for mirror coatings for gravitational wave detectors. Ta2O5 and GeO2 doped with TiO2 achieve the lowest absorption and mechanical loss with post-processing annealing.
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