for multiferroic materials capable of magnetization switching by application of an electric
field. In an attempt to stabilize NiTiO3 in the rhombohedral R3 structure, epitaxial Ni1− xTi1−
yO3 films of different thickness and composition were deposited on Al2O3 (0001) by pulsed
laser deposition, and characterized using several techniques. Structural parameters for
ilmenite-type NiTiO3 and the metastable LiNbO3-type NiTiO3 structure with the space group …