 The researchers successfully grew epitaxial atrium iron garnet, YIG, films on gadolinium gallium garnet, GGG, substrates with 100 orientation using pulse laser deposition. The films had a single phase structure, low surface roughness and low coarsivity. They also exhibited near bulk room temperature saturation moments in plain easy axis and damping parameters as low as 2.2 times 10 to the power of negative 4. These high-quality YIG thin films are useful for investigating the origins of novel magnetic phenomena and magnetization dynamics. This article was authored by M. C. on Bassley, A. Kellberger, D. H. Kim and others.