  This note concerns the area growth and bottom spectrum of complete stable
minimal surfaces in a three-dimensional manifold with scalar curvature bounded
from below. When the ambient manifold is the Euclidean space, by an elementary
argument, it is shown directly from the stability inequality that the area of
such minimal surfaces grows exactly as the Euclidean plane. Consequently, such
minimal surfaces must be at, a well-known result due to Fisher-Colbrie and
Schoen as well as do Carmo and Peng. In the case the ambient manifold is the
hyperbolic space, explicit area growth estimate is also derived. For the bottom
spectrum, upper bound estimates are established in terms of the scalar
curvature lower bound of the ambient manifold.
