Study on Film Thickness Uniformity of Magnetron Sputtering System Based on Twin Target

Boyang Wei; Dongmei Liu; Xiuhua Fu; Jing Zhang; Yang Wang; Yu Geng

doi:10.3788/AOS202141.0731001

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