(a) Illustration of the soldering process on the rear side of one solar cell. The rear side is the laser groove side. (b) Illustration of the soldering process with an aluminum shingle form (grey) with two steps acting as stop edges (red arrows) to control the shingling distance for the manual stringing process. For clarity both the top view and the side view of the shingle plate are supplied. (c) Illustration of the lamination process with the stack structure with encapsulant foil, backsheet and the glass. The thick arrow indicates the direction of the pressure during lamination process.