How does resistance change with temperature in conductors and semiconductors?

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1.What happens to the electrical resistance of conductors, semiconductors, with increase in temperature? And explain why?
 
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For conductors, the resistance will increase with T, while for some semiconductors, the resistance may decrease with T, which results from the agitation of the electrons in the valence band
 
lionelwang said:
For conductors, the resistance will increase with T, while for some semiconductors, the resistance may decrease with T, which results from the agitation of the electrons in the valence band
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