Talk:Stranski–Krastanov growth

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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)

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)
 * 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)

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)


 * 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))


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


 * I've started writing an article for the Van der Merwe growth. I agree that Stranski–Krastanov_growth should be split into a separate article, or become part of Thin film.Pieceofmetalwork (talk) 09:54, 9 January 2019 (UTC)
 * (I would) make it part of Thin film. Ponor (talk) 12:11, 30 June 2021 (UTC)
 * 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)

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 section, instead of the thin-film article. Sabih omar 20:55, 2 May 2022 (UTC)

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)

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)


 * 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)