A review and critique is made of those material and processing issues that pertain to the implementation of micrometer and subrnicrometer bubble devices on amorphous films. Adequate reproducibility and uniformity have been achieved in ternary amorphous films prepared by rf sputtering and their magnetic characteristics are very similar to those of analogous garnet films. Factors that may limit application to the amorphous films include defects and dielectric breakdown in insulating layers, sensitivity to annealing, and larger, but not prohibitive, coercivities. A salient problem common to both garnet and amorphous materials is attainment of sufficiently large values of Q to ensure stable device operation.