Which failure mode occurs immediately upon surpassing the reverse breakdown voltage via avalanche effect across a silicon PN junction?

💡 Explanation

Uncontrolled high current occurs because the large reverse voltage accelerates electrons, initiating impact ionization (avalanche effect), therefore the junction is destroyed quickly, rather than forward conduction, or slow mobility decrease which require thermal mechanisms not present directly from junction breakdown.

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