We have investigated the effects of acceptor and donor doping on the leakage current behavior of Pt/(Ba0.5Sr0.5)TiO3/Pt film capacitors prepared by a pulsed-laser deposition method. We selected Mn/Al and Nb as acceptor and donor dopants, respectively. The leakage current behavior depends strongly on the type of dopants. Al doping decreases the leakage current level, and Mn doping decreases it further. Nb doping greatly increases it. The decrease in leakage current associated with acceptor doping seems to partly result from a decrease in tunneling current due to expansion of the depletion layer width. The converse appears to apply with donor doping. (C) 1999 American Institute of Physics. [S0003-6951(99)02843-0].