directly on top of the photovoltaic cell and not on the semiconductor structure and thus front cell contact 2162 is replaced further alternatively or in addition front side contact 2161 of a given cell could be connected to back side contact 2163 of the neighboring cell so as to realize a series connection between the two photovoltaic cells a parallel connection between two photovoltaic cells can be obtained connecting the respective front side contacts 2161 of each cell moreover although the embodiment has been described with reference to structure 8100 and steps s 82 s 13 and s 14 any process that will result in the placement of a plurality of cells 8121 8124 onto a stretching material 1150 can be used instead as a basis for the subsequent stretching step s 21 and placement of the separated cells onto a target substrate in some embodiments the photovoltaic cell can have lateral dimensions in a range from 1 mm 2 to 5 cm 2 preferably a value of 2 mm 2 to 20 mm 2 while the semiconductor structures 3161 3164 can have lateral dimensions in a range from 4 mm 2 to 2500 mm 2 preferably a value of 9 mm 2 to 1 cm 2 in some.