 Itrium iron garnet, YIG, Y3-Fe5O12, films have been epitaxially grown on gadolinium gallium garnet, GGG, substrates with, 100, orientation using pulsed laser deposition. Films with thicknesses ranging from 17 to 200 nanometers exhibited low coarsivity, near bulk room temperature saturation moments, tilde operator 135 emu Cm-3, and damping parameters as low as 2.2 times 10 minus 4. This article was authored by MC on Bassley, Akelberger, DH Kim and others.