We report the epitaxial growth of Ca3SnO antiperovskite oxide films on
(001)-oriented cubic yttria-stabilized zirconia (YSZ) substrates by using a
conventional pulsed laser deposition (PLD) technique. In this work, a sintered
Ca3SnO pellet is used as the ablation target. X-ray diffraction measurements
demonstrate the (001) growth of Ca3SnO films with the antiperovskite structure
and a cube-on-cube orientation relationship to the YSZ substrate. The
successful synthesis of the antiperovskite phase is further confirmed by x-ray
photoemission spectroscopy. These results strongly suggest that
antiperovskite-oxide films can be directly grown on substrates from the target
material using a PLD technique
