TECHNOLOGY FOCUS - ELECTRICAL POWER AND ENERGY - Preferred Components: The second material layer forming an upward facing top light incident surface of the first cell is unbroken throughout the entirety of the second material layer. The first, second and third electrically conductive material portions all comprise a monolithic material form common to and shared by the first, second and third conductive material portions. The second portion of conductive material extends through holes in the sheetlike form from the downward facing bottom side of the sheetlike form to the upward facing top side of the sheetlike form. The holes form the open area of an electrically conductive mesh. The substrate associated with the collection region has the downward facing substrate surface formed by a polymer based adhesive layer that does not extend to overlay the second cell. The second of the cells comprises a metal based layer which forms a conductive downward facing bottom surface portion of the second cell and the third conductive material is in ohmic communication with the metal based layer of the second cell, where the ohmic communication between the third conductive material and the metal based layer of the second cell is maintained by a laminated contact, and thus the third conductive material is positioned between a polymeric adhesive (42) and conductive bottom surface portion of the second cell and the adhesive is bonded to the conductive bottom surface portion of the second cell at points immediately adjacent the third conductive material. The ohmic communication between the third conductive material and the metal based layer of the second cell is achieved absent the use of solder. The portions of the downward facing substrate surface in direct contact with the top light incident first cell surface within the collection region comprise a polymeric adhesive forming an adhesive bond to the top light incident first cell surface, where such adhesive bonding is responsible for maintaining the pattern portions in direct contact with the top light incident first cell surface. The pattern portions in direct contact with the top light incident first cell surface comprise an electrically conductive material absent polymeric material. The conductive material comprises nickel and a low melting point alloy. At least one of the layers of transparent or translucent polymeric material comprises a structural polymer that does not extend to overlay the second of the cells. The pattern has an upward facing portion visible through the layers of transparent or translucent polymeric material of the substrate associated with the collection region, where the upward facing pattern portion is formed from material having a dark color to blend with the naturally dark color of the photovoltaic cell and thus reduce the aesthetic obtrusiveness of the pattern. The substrate extends beneath the third conductive material. The pattern portions in direct contact with the light incident cell surface have: a downward facing contacting surface which is substantially flat; and a substantially rectangular cross-section. The article has a length far greater than width so that the article can be characterized as continuous in the length direction. The upward facing top light incident cell surface is formed by an unbroken layer comprising a transparent or translucent conductive metal oxide.