Molecular beam epitaxy growth of neodymium-doped yttrium aluminum perovskite, R. Kumaran, S.E. Webster, S. Penson, Wei Li, T. Tiedje, J. Cryst. Growth, 311, 2191-2194 (2009)

Epitaxial neodymium-doped yttrium aluminum perovskite (Nd:YAlO₃) has been grown by plasma-assisted molecular beam epitaxy on R-plane sapphire at 985C. The substrates were annealed in air at 1150C to generate atomically ordered surfaces. Structural and optical characterization was performed using X-ray diffraction and photoluminescence. Emission spectra identical to that from bulk crystalline Nd:YAlO₃ were obtained.