Patent ID: 7851700

Claim:
A device comprising a first photovoltaic cell and a current collector structure, wherein, said photovoltaic cell comprises a cell body which includes semiconductor material and a light incident top surface portion formed by a transparent or translucent conductive material, and said current collector structure comprises: a. an optically transparent or translucent sheetlike substrate having a first substrate surface, b. a pattern comprising multiple traces separated by regions of said substrate, said traces extending over said first substrate surface, said traces comprising multiple layers wherein, a first of said layers comprises polymeric material and has structure in the form of at least a portion of said pattern, a second of said layers comprises a metal, and wherein said device comprises a combination of said photovoltaic cell and said current collector structure such that at least a portion of said pattern is distributed over a preponderance of said light incident top surface portion, said combination further characterized by having said pattern portion and said light incident top surface portion facing toward each other such that said second layer associated with said pattern portion is positioned between the first layer and said light incident top surface portion.