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A new, large-area, thin-film, flexible photovoltaic structure is disclosed, as well as a general fabrication procedure, including a preferably roll-to-roll-type, process-chamber-segregated, "continuous-motion", method for producing such a structure. A special multi-material vapor-deposition environm

A new, large-area, thin-film, flexible photovoltaic structure is disclosed, as well as a general fabrication procedure, including a preferably roll-to-roll-type, process-chamber-segregated, "continuous-motion", method for producing such a structure. A special multi-material vapor-deposition environment is disclosed to implement an important co-evaporation, layer-deposition procedure performed in and as part of the fabrication procedure. A structural system adapted to create a vapor environment generally like that just referred to is disclosed, as is an organization of method steps involved in the generation of such a vapor environment. Also, a unique, vapor-creating, materials-distributing system, which includes specially designed heated crucibles with carefully arranged, spatially distributed, localized and generally point-like, heated-nozzle sources of different metallic vapors, and a special multi-fingered, comb-like, vapor-delivering manifold structure is shown.

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1. A method of producing a flexible, thin-film photovoltaic (PV) structure comprisingplacing a substrate in a processing chamber; and applying a layer of a photovoltaic layer structure on the substrate; and generating internal compression in the applied layer in connection with the step of applying.

1. A method of producing a flexible, thin-film photovoltaic (PV) structure comprisingplacing a substrate in a processing chamber; and applying a layer of a photovoltaic layer structure on the substrate; and generating internal compression in the applied layer in connection with the step of applying.