  In this paper we reported, to the best of our knowledge, the first deposition
of highly oriented thin films (with thickness of about 90 nm) of NdCoO3 and
Nd0.8Sr0.2CoO3 cobaltites on single-crystalline STO and LAO substrates. Our
investigation has shown that highly oriented single phase thin films of NCO and
NSCO can be successfully deposited by means of rf-sputtering if the substrates
is heated at high temperatures (700C); lower substrate temperature has shown to
lead to multi-phase materials with a low crystallinity degree . LAO substrate
showed to give origin to a prefect match of the out-of-plane lattice constant
of the NSCO target material.
