Talk:Sputtering

message: I restructured the article since there was confusion between the sputtering process and its applications (which are articles in themselves such as sputter deposition, ion milling, reactive ion etching etcetera). Some images and graphs should be added soon as well. Since this edit takes care of several suggestions I removed those from the talk page to keep the page clean.
—Maybe someone should put in a reactive sputtering section.  I know a little, but I might take a while to get around to it.--Joel 19:13, 11 May 2005
:no, that is part of sputter deposition
I agree, there is a misleading statement that sputtering always produces thin films with the same composition as the source material. This is not the case as lighter elements may be lost through the "sputering gas" in the diagram, a particular example of this is sputtering of non stoichiometric silicon oxide SiOx, where you can use various silicon compounds and contol the amount of oxygen by controling the flow of oxygen through the sputtering chamber. 
: should be done in the sputter deposition article
Markthompto (talk) 20:51, 27 October 2021 (UTC)
thread_title: Comments

message: This article puts too much emphasis on 'chemical sputtering' which is basically reactive ion etching and not sputtering, since the process is not purely driven by momentum transfer. Reactive sputtering can be discussed in the deposition article. I would recommend deleting it all.
- I disagree, chemical sputtering is not identical to ion etching since it may be endothermal and
occur also for neutral bombardment, even by helium, and can in fact be
driven by momentum transfer (see references on swift chemical
sputtering). 
Knordlun (talk) 17:41, 21 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Chemical sputtering, preferential sputtering 

message: The two article cover more or less the same subject matter.  They should be merged but it won't be easy due to the amount of overlap. Iepeulas (talk) 01:13, 18 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Propose merge to [[Sputter deposition]] 

message: What is the specific cause of electrode erosion in electrical devices? Is this a form of uncontrolled sputtering? If yes, then this would be a useful link in article like spark plug to explain the cause of electrode erosion. I'm not an expert so I don't want to make an invalid association in case the cause is something else. DMahalko (talk) 23:11, 7 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  electrode/contact erosion -- caused by sputtering? 

message: LLS  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 62.206.58.210 (talk) 16:00, 11 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  LLS 

message: what i do miss in the article is the effect of intrinsic ejection of atoms of a radioactive source - i am not an expert, but this should be somehow linked to to the part of spontanious dust formation of lava-like structures in chernobyl as it seems to be a similar process  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.75.189.10 (talk) 22:44, 27 October 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  radioactive sputtering 

message: I noted that the talk page on Money laundering which was shown in an episode of Breaking Bad has a tag that it was used in media. Here is an unformatted quote of it:
"News 	This article has been mentioned or used by a media organization. The reference is in:
    "Half Measures". Breaking Bad, Season 3, Episode 12. June 6, 2010. (details)"
I was wondering what level of popularity said media has to have for it to be worth noting on the talk page. Obviously this is a physics blog that frequently links wikipedia pages, but I was interested in the relevance of such to wikipedia. 
Thanks, JoshuaMiller0 (talk) 11:21, 21 May 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Referenced by What If - xkcd (webcomic blog)