polycrystalline
adjEtymology From poly- + crystalline.
1
Composed of an aggregate of very small crystals in random orientations
- This was revealed only in the experiments of ion bombardment of single crystals, because a polycrystalline material, even though its microcrystallites have a regular structure, in fact behaves like a nonarranged, random system.1966, Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Phenomena in .in Ionized Gases:
- Derived terms
- nanopolycrystalline, polycrystalline silicon
- Related terms
- polycrystal