InOxFy epitaxial thin films with high fluorine concentration were grown on Y:ZrO2.
Anion composition and structural, optical and transport properties were studied.
Fluorine is topotactically inserted into the oxygen vacancy sites in bixbyite cell.
Bixbyite-like ordering of the anion site occupancy was conserved in y / (x + y) ≤ ~ 0.3.