Patent ID: 6929726

Claim:
A sputtering target consisting essentially of 0.2 to 50% by weight of at least one of element that forms an intermetallic compound with Al, 0.05% or less by weight of C as an impurity and the balance of Al, wherein the element that forms the intermetallic compound is uniformly dispersed in the target texture, such that when the state of dispersion of the element in the sputtering target is measured by a mapping of the EPMA analysis, an area of portions whose count number of detection sensitivity of the element is 22 or more, is less than 60% by area ratio in a measurement area of 20×20 μm in the mapping, and C as an impurity is uniformly dispersed in the target texture, such that when the state of dispersion of C in the sputtering target is measured by a mapping of the EPMA analysis, an area of portions whose count number of detection sensitivity of C is 55 or more, is less than 60% by area ratio in a measurement area of 20×20 μm in the mapping.