Highly c-axis oriented thin films of Ce-based heavy-fermion superconductor CeCoIn5 were grown on Cr∕MgO substrates by molecular beam epitaxy. The films consist of micrograins which are strongly oriented in c axis but are random in the film plane. Kondo temperature, superconducting transition temperature, and upper critical fields of the films are very close to those of single crystals.
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