The main advantages of Pulsed Laser Deposition are:

• conceptually simple: a laser beam vaporizes a target surface, producing a film with the same composition as the target.
• versatile: many materials can be deposited in a wide variety of gases over a broad range of gas pressures.
• cost-effective: one laser can serve many vacuum systems.
• fast: high quality samples can be grown reliably in 10 or 15 minutes.
• scalable: as complex oxides move toward volume production.