Solar cell and method of manufacturing the same

A solar cell comprising a metal electrode, an antireflection film, and a semiconductor substrate, wherein a plurality of portions in which the antireflection film is absent is defined along a first direction and a second direction perpendicular to the first direction in a plan view of the antireflection film, the portion where the antireflection film is absent being disposed between a bottom of the metal electrode formed at a side of a light-receiving surface and the semiconductor substrate, and a mean area percentage of the portion where the antireflection film is absent is 10% or more and 80% or less relative to an area of the bottom of the metal electrode, wherein the portion where the antireflection film is absent is composed of a plurality of sub-portions, each of the sub-portions being surrounded by a portion where the antireflection film is present in the plan view,

• wherein the semiconductor substrate has a pyramidal texture on the side of the light-receiving surface of the semiconductor substrate and the pyramidal texture is destroyed at the portion where the antireflection film is absent, and
• wherein a surface of the semiconductor substrate has a center line average roughness (Ra) of 1.5 μm or less at the portion where the antireflection film is absent.