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Successive ionic layer adsorption and reaction (SILAR) method have been successfully employed to grow nanocrystalline Mn doped a-Fe 2 O 3 thin films onto glass substrates. The structural analysis revealed that, the films are nanocrystalline in nature with rhombohedral structure. The optical studies showed that a-Fe 2 O 3 thin film exhibits 3.02 eV band gap energy and it decreases to 2.95 eV as the Mn doping percentage in it was increased from 0 to 8 wt.%. The SILAR grown a-Fe 2 O 3 film exhibits antibacterial character against Staphylococcus aureus bacteria and it increases remarkably with Mn doping. ª 2015 Production and hosting by Elsevier B.V. on behalf of University of Bahrain. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).