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ZnO-based ceramic varistors exhibit photocurrents which vary in a highly nonlinear manner with applied voltage. It follows that varistor behavior is controlled by electrical barriers at the ZnO-grain–intergranular-layer interface.
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Philipp et al. (1975) studied this question.
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