NOVELTY - Manufacturing an article combining photovoltaic cell structure and a conductive material pattern for collecting current from a top light incident surface of a photovoltaic cell, comprises providing photovoltaic cell structure to a positioning process, and providing a flexible structure to the positioning process, where the flexible structure comprises a pattern comprising electrically conductive material (15, 16) extending over a flexible sheet, and is manufactured in the absence of the cell structure.    USE - The method is useful for manufacturing an article combining photovoltaic cell structure and a conductive material pattern for collecting current from a top light incident surface of a photovoltaic cell (claimed), where the article is electroplateable articles including solar cell electrical current collection grids, electrodes, electrical circuits, electrical traces, circuit boards, antennas, capacitors, induction heaters, connectors, switches, resistors, inductors, batteries, fuel cells, coils, signal lines, power lines, radiation reflectors, coolers, diodes, transistors, piezoelectric elements, emi shields, biosensors and sensors.    ADVANTAGE - The method allows separate production of photovoltaic structures, achieves effective integrated connections, allows the laminating current collector electrodes to continuously produce expansive area, series or parallel interconnected photovoltaic arrays, provides improved substrates to achieve series or parallel interconnections among photovoltaic cells, the structure used for collecting current from the electrically conductive surface, the current collector electrode structures used in facilitating mass production of optoelectronic devices such as photovoltaic cell arrays, and economically produces interconnected photovoltaic arrays.    DETAILED DESCRIPTION - Manufacturing an article combining photovoltaic cell structure and a conductive material pattern for collecting current from a top light incident surface of a photovoltaic cell, comprises providing photovoltaic cell structure to a positioning process, where the cell structure has a top light incident surface and comprises a semiconductor material, and providing a flexible structure to the positioning process, where the flexible structure comprises a pattern comprising electrically conductive material (15, 16) extending over a flexible sheet, and is manufactured in the absence of the cell structure, the positioning process comprising positioning the flexible structure relative to the cell structure to position portions of the pattern to extend over a preponderance of the top light incident surface of the cell structure, and the method further comprises removing a portion of the flexible sheet from the pattern after which the pattern remains on the top light incident surface.    DESCRIPTION OF DRAWING(S) - The figure shows a sectional view of an interconnecting structure.    Backside electrode (8)    Interconnecting conductor (9)    Transparent conductive material (15, 16)    Window electrode (18)    Substrate. (70f)