Abstract: The solar cell has at least one semiconductor layer arranged on a metal support and is provided with a plurality of contact tracks arranged on the semiconductor layer. A lateral projection by at least one contact track is bent around onto a reverse of the support and arranged so as to be electrically insulated from the support. Adjacently arranged solar cells are preferably inter-connected by conductor tracks which have a perforated form in order to allow local contact-connections by soldering through.

Abstract: A process and a device for coating a strip in which the strip is transported along a strip guide inside a coating chamber. At least two guide elements of the strip guide are positioned a certain distance apart, their longitudinal axes being arranged at a slant to each other in such a way that the distance between the guide elements varies along the longitudinal axes. The strip is conducted along the guide elements inside the coating chamber in such a way that at least two sections of the strip are traveling essentially adjacent to each other as they are being coated.