Influence of sputtering pressures on the optical properties of manganese film based on spectroscopic ellipsometry

TANG Hua-Jie; ZHANG Jin-Min; JIN Hao; SHAO Fei; HU Wei-Qian; XIE Quan

doi:10.3724/sp.j.1010.2015.03.015

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