Method for laminating solar cells

1 Method for laminating solar cells. When laminating solar cells, often cell drifting occurs: as the dimensions of the uncured laminates, such as EVA, change during the lamination process due 5 thermal expansion, shrinkage due to cross-linking, dimensional change due to relaxation of strain, etc. the solar cells (104) tend to drift before the cells attach ('tack') to the encapsulant. The invention describes methods to avoid this drifting by first adhering the cells to a backside encapsulant (114) with a low dimensional change, such as an encapsulant with a polyester or plastic core. An example of 10 such a laminate is EPE. This backside encapsulant need not be transparent. After the cells attach to the backside encapsulant the cells are adhered to a frontside encapsulant (112) that is highly transparent, such as EVA, and cured. (FIG. 1) 15