Patent ID: 8796064

Claim:
A method for producing thin-film solar modules, comprising the steps: making available flexible thin-film solar cells in the form of separate segments in a container or on a web which has been wound up into a roll, the flexible thin-film solar cells resting on the web with a first side, each of the flexible thin-film solar cells being configured with a first electrical pole and a second electrical pole, relocating the flexible thin-film solar cells from the web onto a first film web in such a way that a first flexible thin-film solar cell is positioned with its first pole close to the second pole of a second flexible thin-film solar cell, and applying electrically conducting contact strips onto the first and second poles of the flexible thin-film solar cells in longitudinal and/or transverse directions relative to a conveying direction of the first film web, in order to interconnect the flexible thin-film solar cells electrically in series and/or in parallel, laminating a transparent, flexible, second thermoplastic film web onto the first film web and onto the flexible thin-film solar cells, in order to form a solar-module strand formed from the first and the second film webs and from the flexible thin-film solar cells located in between, isolating the plurality of thin-film solar modules from the solar-module strand, and introducing the isolated thin-film solar modules into a crosslinking station, in order to expose the thin-film solar modules to a defined temperature profile in which the film webs are brought into the range of the crosslinking-temperature for the first time for the requisite period.