Award Number: DE-EE0008166CX(s) Applied: A9, B3.6Solar Energy Technologies OfficeLocation(s): AZOffice(s): Golden Field Office
Office of NEPA Policy and Compliance
August 17, 2017
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Award Number: DE-EE0008166
CX(s) Applied: A9, B3.6
Solar Energy Technologies Office
Location(s): AZ
Office(s): Golden Field Office
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is proposing to provide federal funding to Arizona State University (ASU) to reduce silver consumption in photovoltaic cells by a factor of almost ten by replacing screen-printed silver pastes with contact-dispensed, reactive inks that produce lower-resistivity metallizations at lower temperatures and with thinner films.