(Na0.85K0.15)(0.5)Bi0.5TiO3 thin films were deposited on LaNiO3(LNO)/SiO2/Si(1 0 0) and Pt/Ti/SiO2/Si(1 0 0) substrates by metal-organic decomposition, and the effects of bottom electrodes LNO and Pt on the ferroelectric, dielectric and piezoelectric properties were investigated by ferroelectric tester, impedance analyzer and scanning probe microscopy, respectively. For the thin films deposited on LNO and Pt electrodes, the remnant polarization 2P(r) are about 22.6 and 8.8 mu C/cm(2) under 375 kV/cm, the dielectric constants 238 and 579 at 10 kHz, the dielectric losses 0.06 and 0.30 at 10 kHz, the statistic d(33eff) values 95 and 81 pm/V. The improved piezoelectric properties could make (Na1-xKx)(0.5)Bi0.5TiO3 thin film as a promising candidate for piezoelectric thin film devices. (C) 2009 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.