NOVELTY - The method involves arranging an electrode layer (408) below a screen (500) and applying ink (50) on the screen with a screen cloth (504) knitted by a set of warps (30), and an emulsion layer (506) having a screen-printing pattern (508). A flood bar (70) is moved along a direction to cover the cloth with the ink. The ink is downwardly pressed by a scraper. The scraper is moved along another direction to transfer the ink onto the layer through the pattern. An angle between the scraper and each warp is about 15 to 20 degrees when moving the scraper along the latter direction.    USE - Screen-printing method for forming a screen-printing layer on an object i.e. electrode layer, to manufacture a thin-film solar cell.    ADVANTAGE - The method enables improving dimensional precision of the screen-printing layer and a reflecting layer when warp and wefts of the cloth are parallel to or perpendicular to a screen frame, thus improving reliability and external appearance of a solar cell by avoiding formation of multiple serrated edges of a transfer-printing pattern. The screen cloth is not easily scratched by the scraper when the angle among between the scraper and the weft is about 15 to 20 degrees while moving the scraper along the latter direction, thus prolonging the service life of the screen. The method enables encapsulating another electrode layer, a photoelectric conversion layer and the former electrode layer through an adhesion layer by a pair of substrates to prevent water vapor from permeating in the solar cell, so that current leakage or deterioration problems of a film layer of the solar cell are avoided.    DETAILED DESCRIPTION - An INDEPENDENT CLAIM is also included for a method for manufacturing a thin-film solar cell.    DESCRIPTION OF DRAWING(S) - The drawing shows a cross-sectional view of a set of intermediate structures formed by a screen-printing method.    Warps (30)    Ink (50)    Flood bar (70)    Electrode layer (408)    Screen (500)    Screen cloth (504)    Emulsion layer (506)    Screen-printing pattern (508)