Abstract: This solar-cell module and method is provided with a plurality of solar cells and a connecting member that connects the light-receiving-surface side of one solar cell to the back-surface side of an adjacent solar cell. Said connecting member comprises a conductor that includes the following: a flat section laid out on the light-receiving-surface side of the aforementioned one solar cell, a flat section laid out on the back-surface side of the other solar cell, and a middle section that joins said flat sections to each other. The hardness of a boundary region between one of the flat sections and the middle section is no more than 1.25 times the hardness of that flat section.

Abstract: This solar-cell module is provided with a plurality of solar cells and a connecting member that connects the light-receiving-surface side of one solar cell to the back-surface side of an adjacent solar cell. Said connecting member comprises a conductor that includes the following: a flat section laid out on the light-receiving-surface side of the aforementioned one solar cell, a flat section laid out on the back-surface side of the other solar cell, and a middle section that joins said flat sections to each other. The hardness of a boundary region between one of the flat sections and the middle section is no more than 1.25 times the hardness of that flat section.

Abstract: An organic light-emitting element having a substrate, an anode on the substrate, a bank layer on or above the substrate that has an opening above the anode, a hole transport layer in the opening that contains organic material, an organic light-emitting layer on the hole transport layer that contains organic light-emitting material, and a cathode above the organic light-emitting layer. A portion of the hole transport layer is located between a periphery of the organic light-emitting layer and a side surface of the bank layer facing the opening. Carrier mobility of the hole transport layer is 1.0×10?3(cm2/Vs) or less.