Record low ag paste consumption of 67.7 mg with dual print

Energy Procedia

Volumn 43, Issue , 2013, Pages 66-71

  Hannebauer, Helge ^a   Dullweber, Thorsten ^a   Falcon, Tom ^b   Chen, Xiao ^b   Brendel, Rolf ^a,c  

^a INSTITUTE FOR SOLAR ENERGY RESEARCH HAMELIN ISFH   (Germany)

^b DEK Solar   (United Kingdom)

^c LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITY HANNOVER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Dual print; Fine line printing; Paste consumption; Print on print; Screen printing

Indexed keywords

EID: 84888323578     PISSN: 18766102     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1016/j.egypro.2013.11.089     Document Type: Conference Paper

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