Low-maintenance coatings, and methods for producing low-maintenance coatings

A method comprising:

• depositing a low-maintenance coating on a major surface of a glass sheet, the low-maintenance coating including a base film and a functional film,
• wherein the base film is deposited by a sputtering technique where at least one target is sputtered in an atmosphere into which both inert gas and reactive gas are flowed and an inflow rate for the inert gas divided by an inflow rate for the reactive gas is between 0.4 and 9, and
• wherein the functional film is deposited by a sputtering technique that uses at least one target having a sputterable material comprising both titanium oxide and tungsten oxide, the titanium oxide comprising TiO and TiO2, and
• the depositing of the low-maintenance coating is performed such that the functional film defines an exposed outermost face of the low-maintenance coating.