substrates. The polymeric precursor method was used to synthesize the powders from which
the ablation targets were fabricated. Zn0. 9Mn0. 1O films ablated from these targets showed
excellent epitaxial growth with a full-width at half-maximum (FWHM)∼ 0.07°. Probably, the
purity offered by the soft chemistry methods to prepare ceramic-type polycrystalline
compounds with nanometric particle size plays an important role in achieving high-quality …