polycrystalline
- adjective
- /ˌpɒlɪˈkrɪstəlɪn/
- Specialized
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policristalino
- Researchers prefer polycrystalline structures for improved durability and performance in solar technology.
Examples
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The solar panels in our garden are made of polycrystalline silicon, which is efficient and cost-effective.
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We have efforts in inorganic thin film, Sig CZTS, amorphous silicon, polycrystalline silicon.
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These are polycrystalline diamond composites.
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And you start with the polycrystalline rod coming from the Siemens process.
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So this is liquid, this is solid, and it's polycrystalline, solid, polycrystalline, and the composition, each of these grains is the same.
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In addition, he carried out micromachining experiments on single and polycrystalline FCC metals and other materials.
Academic text (2005) -
Many electronic devices use polycrystalline materials due to their favorable electrical properties.
Synonyms
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Made of many small solid parts that form regular shapes like salt or snow
Made of many small grains of solid material, often used in solar panels
Made of tiny crystals you can only see with a microscope
Having very small crystals in the rock that are hard to see
How Crystalline
Surface Forms
Morphology
polycrystalline = crystalline (transparent) = poly + crystal + ine
The word is a regular scientific formation meaning 'having many crystals' from the prefix poly- plus the adjective crystalline, so the meaning is largely recoverable from its parts.
Etymology
Polycrystalline breaks into poly- 'many' and crystal 'a hard solid with a regular pattern', so it describes a material made of many small crystals instead of one single crystal, like a mosaic of tiny crystals which is why its properties differ from a single crystal.