  High&#8211;quality epitaxial YNixMn1-xO3 thin films have been successfully
grown on SrTiO3 (100) (STO) by pulsed laser deposition. X-ray diffraction
studies showed that the films deposited on STO are fully c-axis oriented and
exhibit in-plane alignment. The magnetic transition temperatures (Tc) of the
films (both x=0.33 and 0.5) are equivalent to the values of the corresponding
bulk samples. However, when x=0.5, the films show magnetic properties quite
different from those of bulk samples. This difference may be caused by the
structure distortion in these films.
