NOVELTY - The array has a transparent conductive oxide (TCO) layer deposited over a substrate, where a set of electrical conductive paths is provided in electrical contact with the TCO layer. The electrical conductive paths extend discontinuously across opposing sides of the substrate. A silicon-containing film stack is formed over the TCO layer. A barrier layer is placed between the TCO layer and the substrate, where the layer comprises a dielectric material selected from a group consisting of silicon nitride, silicon oxynitride, and silicon oxide.    USE - Solar cell array for use in a substrate e.g. glass substrate and polymer substrate, of a thin film photovoltaic device.    ADVANTAGE - The array facilitates formation of discontinuous gridline to reduce effective sheet resistivity of the TCO layer while improving current conduction of the TCO layer, and enables using wider solar cells to decrease active area loss on a light incident surface while reducing operating voltage almost by half and increasing the operating current without loss in efficiency. The wider solar cells reduce number of laser scribes lines that are required to isolate individual cells from each other when formed with current standard cell width. The spacing between the gridlines is adjusted such that amount of heat generated and operating temperature of each region of the solar cell can be controlled and optimized. The gridlines are arranged in a manner to provide small or no optical obscuration of photons striking a formed solar cell substrate, thus minimizing shadowing effect resulting from the gridlines.    DETAILED DESCRIPTION - An INDEPENDENT CLAIM is also included for a method for fabricating a series of solar cell array on a substrate.    DESCRIPTION OF DRAWING(S) - The drawing shows a sectional view of solar cell array formed on a substrate comprising multiple discontinuous gridlines.    Junction box (108)    Buss lines (114)    Cross-buss (116)    Discontinuous gridlines (118)    Parallel spacing (302)