Sr 0.9 Bi 2.2 Ta 2 O 9 thin films were prepared on a Pt-substrate by aqueous chemical solution deposition. The applied heat treatment seems to have a significant influence on the ferroelectric response, crystallinity and surface morphology. For two-layer thin films annealed at 700 • C in oxygen, the P r -value increased from 3.6 until 5.5 µC/cm 2 , c-axis preferred orientation was considerably lowered and rod-like instead of spherical grains were grown when the second pyrolysis step at 520 • C was omitted.