Which mechanism causes reduced electron mobility when dopants accumulate at grain boundaries?

💡 Explanation

Dopant segregation creates charged regions depleting carriers nearby; therefore, electron mobility reduces because space charge layer formation impedes their trajectories, rather than phonons or quantum effects dominating conduction.

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