%0 Journal Article %A C.S Ganpule %A A Stanishevsky %A S Aggarwal %A J Melngailis %A E Williams %A Ramamoorthy Ramesh %A V Joshi %A C. Paz De Araujo %B Applied Physics Letters %D 1999 %G eng %I American Institute of Physics Inc. %P 3874-3876 %R 10.1063/1.125485 %T Scaling of ferroelectric and piezoelectric properties in Pt/SrBi2Ta2O9/Pt thin films %V 75 %X Scaling of the ferroelectric and piezoelectric properties in Pt/SrBi2Ta2O9/Pt thin films was studied. Focused ion beam milling was used to fabricate submicron devices (1 × 1, 0.5 × 0.5, 0.25 × 0.25, 0.09 × 0.09, and 0.07 × 0.07 μm2) and scanning force microscopy was used to examine their piezoelectric response. It was found that capacitors as small as 0.09 × 0.09 μm2 exhibit good piezoelectric/ferroelectric properties and that submicron (0.25 × 0.25 μm2) capacitors show resistance to bipolar fatigue with up to at least 109 cycles. The results were compared with similar capacitor structures milled in the Pb1.0(Nb0.04Zr0.28Ti0.68)O 3 system where structures as small as 0.07 × 0.07 μm2 were analyzed. © 1999 American Institute of Physics.