  This paper discusses questions of synthesizing and pressing vanadium oxides
to create film-forming materials that can be used in producing optical
coatings. Based on the film-forming materials thus created, technological
processes have been developed for fabricating coatings from vanadium dioxide by
two methods of producing thin films: vacuum evaporation and magnetron
sputtering. Questions of using films made from vanadium oxide in optical
instrumentation are considered.
