Which mechanism explains increased conductivity at grain boundaries in polycrystalline graphene?

💡 Explanation

Localized gap state hopping increases conductivity because it provides additional electronic states within the band gap at grain boundaries, thus facilitating electron transport through these regions, therefore, gap state hopping, rather than other scattering mechanisms is the reason.

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