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← ScienceWhich mechanism causes increased electrical resistivity in polycrystalline silicon?
A)Grain boundary electron scattering✓
B)Increased phonon-phonon interactions
C)Enhanced Umklapp scattering events
D)Augmented electron-hole recombination
💡 Explanation
Grain boundaries impede electron motion because they disrupt the crystal lattice periodicity; therefore, grain boundary electron scattering increases resistivity, rather than phonon scattering influencing electron mobility or electron-hole recombination directly affecting conduction.
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