摘要 |
To provide a cylindrical sputtering target, whereby cracking during sputtering can be remarkably reduced. A cylindrical sputtering target, wherein a cylindrical target material made of ITO or AZO has a relative density of at least 90%; the angle between the grinding direction on its outer circumferential surface and a straight line parallel with its cylindrical axis (out of such angles, ¸ represents an angle between 0° and 90°) satisfies 45°<¸‰¦90° or tan¸>ÀR/L (where R is an outside diameter of the cylindrical target material, and L is the length of the cylindrical target material); and the surface roughness Ra of the outer circumferential surface of the cylindrical target material is at most 3 µm. |