Talk:Stranski–Krastanov growth

A fact from Stranski–Krastanov growth appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 9 December 2007. The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that surface science studies show that Stranski-Krastanov growth is one of three primary ways in which thin films grow on crystals?

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Whoever tagged this page for speedy deletion did so less than 5 minutes after I started writing it. I have since updated the article and do not think it meets the criteria for deletion. Please let me know if there are subsequent problems that I need to fix.Acarlso3 09:55, 4 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

chemical potential formula

Sorry but what does 'n' stand for in the formula for the chemical potential? It is not made explicit, I think. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Xikh (talk • contribs) 21:30, 23 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Wish I could give you an answer, but I've got no clue! You might get a quicker response on questions like this one from the reference desk, though; there will be more eyes on it, at least. Good luck! -- Vary | Talk 21:56, 23 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Article split?

This article, though titled "Stranski-Krastanov growth", actually discusses Volmer-Weber and Frank-van der Merwe growth modes as well. Perhaps the article should be split, or renamed to something like "Crystal growth modes"? C3lticmatt (talk) 17:05, 31 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hey I agree with the article split. It seems like SK growth and the other three modes are all bunched up together. (Thetlt (talk) 09:56, 24 April 2011 (UTC))[reply]

I agree. Besides, there are not any dedicated articles for the other growth modes. (Nicdall (talk) 11:32, 3 November 2017 (UTC))[reply]

I've started writing an article for the Van der Merwe growth. I agree that Stranski–Krastanov_growth#Modes_of_thin-film_growth should be split into a separate article, or become part of Thin film.Pieceofmetalwork (talk) 09:54, 9 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

(I would) make it part of Thin film. Ponor (talk) 12:11, 30 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

This split proposal has been sittin without further discussion for two years, so I will remove the tag -- if someone wants to revive it please do. Personally I see nothing that should be removed. There has to be a little discussion on VW/FvM for context, and what it currently here is adequate. Ldm1954 (talk) 01:17, 15 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

This is a very well-written section (thanks!). Since this talks about the physical/chemical process of epitaxial growth, I propose this section be moved to Epitaxy#Mechanism section, instead of the thin-film article. Sabih omar 20:55, 2 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Stranski and Krastanov's Original Paper?

I've been searching for the original paper, and because all these references I see are somewhat wrong, it has been pretty difficult. (See footnotes 5 and 6.) I know it must have been published before 1957 (the earliest reference to the paper I have found so far), but which journal? Wien (Vienna) or Mainz? And who has access to the journal? Orrin Jelo (talk) 20:44, 4 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Must be Wien(Vienna). The ADW in Mainz was founded in 1949 Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur. I have the 1958 Bauer paper at hand, the reference there is "I. N. Stranski aund L. Krastanow, Zur Theorie der orientierten Ausscheidung von Ionenkristallen aufeinander. Sitzungsber. Akad. Wiss. Wien, Math.-naturwiss. Kl. IIb. 146, (1938) 797-810". It might be available in Mainz: https://opac.ub.uni-mainz.de/DB=1/PPN?PPN=04731978X and other German Universities. --134.93.68.231 (talk) 17:26, 4 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Stranski and Krastanov did not really discuss what today we call SK...

see discussion in

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960897423000104

which implies that the originally cited reference by Bauer, is ok, but not the source of the growth mode nomenclature. Bauer is the person who "invented" the nomenclature , picking in the literature things which went close to what he wanted to do. 143.239.67.251 (talk) 12:53, 15 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]