The Bi 3.4 La 0.6 Ti 3 O 12 (BLT) thin film and powder have been prepared by a sol-gel method with annealing at 700 • C. Randomly oriented BLT thin film exhibits a large remanent polarization, 2P r = 72 μC/cm 2 , with a dc applied field strength of 320 kV/cm. Structure of sol-gel derived BLT powder has been investigated by neutron scatterings, and refined by a Rietveld method resulting a reasonable goodness of fit (wR p = 6.7%, and R p = 5.7%) using an orthorhombic (B2cb, a = 5.4221Å, b = 5.4032Å, and c = 32.8361Å). Two different TiO 6 octahedra exhibit different polarization directions; (100) from Ti(1)O 6 , and (011) from Ti(2)O 6 , which explains the observed large 2P r of the randomly oriented BLT thin film.