NOVELTY - A solar cell sub-module has elongate solar cells mounted in a structure that maintains the elongate solar cells in a longitudinally parallel and coplanar configuration. The structure provides conductive pathways electrically interconnecting the elongate solar cells.    USE - Solar cell sub-module for photovoltaic device and linear concentrator system (claimed).    ADVANTAGE - The module has a mounting structure that prevents damage to the elongate solar cells or electrical connections resulting from thermal cycling during manufacture or use. It provides removal of individual sliver solar cells from each wafer separately, but each separation cycle handles large numbers of sliver solar cells in a large-scale parallel fashion, in every implementation always without the need to resort to locating, engaging, separating, handling, placing or assembling individual sliver solar cells singly; engagement of bulk sets or entire arrays of sliver solar cells by their faces, each sliver solar cell pre-located in the required relative position with respect to adjacent sliver solar cells, and forming a full raft assembly in one process cycle; elimination of requirement for expensive equipment and high-level automation control to achieve precise individual sliver solar cell positioning such as that required for individual sliver solar cell placement and assembly concepts; elimination of debris generated in in-line separation and assembly processes of sliver solar cell module construction, providing a clean array of separated sliver solar cells, without any separation fragments contaminating the array or subsequent assembly area; and maintains orientation and polarity of the sliver solar cell during each stage of assembly.    DETAILED DESCRIPTION - INDEPENDENT CLAIMS are included for:    (1) a method of forming the solar cell sub-module;    (2) a substrate release process, including receiving a wafer including elongate substrates interconnected by lateral wafer frame portions, removing proximal and distal wafer frame portions, engaging the lateral wafer frame portions to secure the elongate substrates, applying elongate substrate engaging mechanism to the exposed face of the exposed elongate substrate, and moving the elongate substrate engaging mechanism away from the elongate substrates;    (3) an elongate substrate dispensing process, including providing mutually spaced elongate substrate storage bins to provide a desired spacing of elongate substrates in the solar cell sub-module to be assembled from the stored elongate substrates;    (4) an elongate substrate handling system, including elongate substrate dispensing unit for storing and dispensing stacks of elongate substrates; and alignment jig having mutually spaced slots for receiving respective elongate substrates dispensed from the storage unit;    (5) a process for forming an electrical connection in a photovoltaic module, including attaching an electrical conductor to mutually spaced locations of a support;    (6) an electrical connector for the photovoltaic module;    (7) a system for forming electrical connectors for the photovoltaic module;    (8) a solar cell (sliver) removal process, including receiving slivers interconnected and maintained in mutually spaced arrangement, and releasing the slivers from the connecting portions in a substantially simultaneous manner while maintaining a relative orientation of edges to provide released slivers;    (9) a sliver removal apparatus; and    (10) a storage apparatus for storing elongate substrates in a stacked configuration.    DESCRIPTION OF DRAWING(S) - The drawing is a plan view of a sliver cell module.