Solar cells

Abstract

A solar cell comprising a plurality of photovoltaic elements electrically serially connected with each other on a common conductive substrate, each of said photovoltaic elements comprising a first insulating layer, a first electrode layer, a semiconductor layer, and a second electrode layer laminated in this order on the common conductive substrate, and each pair of the adjacent photovoltaic elements being electrically serially connected by electrically connecting the first electrode layer of one adjacent photovoltaic element to the second electrode layer of the other adjacent photovoltaic element, characterized in that a second insulating layer is disposed between said first insulating layer and the end portion of said first electrode layer and a second insulating is disposed between the region of said first electrode layer serving to perform said serial electrical connection and said first insulating layer.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.