Talk:Lattice scattering

Merge proposal: Ionized impurity scattering into Lattice scattering

The concept of scattering due to impurities is just a detail of the concept of scattering. Is it really its own full and notable topic? Both articles have been little more than stubs for years and even appear to be substantially copied content. DMacks (talk) 07:31, 26 September 2011 (UTC) ]

• Maybe/Opposed - They are distinct physical effects. Although unfortunately, you are correct in noting that there is not much meat to these articles. Until more is written some brave soul should make an article called Scattering (Lattice) and merge the two into that?--Frozenport (talk) 07:39, 26 September 2011 (UTC)

This is outside my field (was attracted to the lack-of-nonexpert-context tagging), so it's especially confusing then that "lattice scattering" now seems to be a technical term for a certain thing (which is distinct from another thing), whereas the lay meaning of that phrase appears to include both. Your merge to a new target that uses a name that isn't an overly specific technical term to those who know the topic sounds reasonable and would certainly allow the differences to be clarified. DMacks (talk) 07:48, 26 September 2011 (UTC)

• • Divining into wikipedia, I suspect that these effects exist on other pages. To me lattice scattering is what is called phonon-electron scattering on other pages. We should really try to get somebody knowledgeable in wikipedia solid state pages to help us sort these two. I suspect the correct solution for this article would be to link it to already existing one. These are fairly primitive and foundational concepts in solid state; so we should suspect that the material is already on wikipedia.--Frozenport (talk) 07:55, 26 September 2011 (UTC)