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Reduction in the production costs and improved solar cell performance are the main factors driving current research and development efforts in the solar cell field. On this field thin film techniques offer good prospective advantages. All such films require a deposition method for the back contact (BC). Irrespective of the deposition method employed for the absorber layer, the BC on the ceramic is expected to show high corrosion and mechanical stability, prevent diffusion from the substrate into the absorber, and show high optical reflectance and electronic conductivity properties. A low-cost chemical (electroless) deposition technique was used to deposit Ni-Mo-P thin films on Kapton and porcelain ceramic substrates. We will present results on the SEM, XRD and EDAX analysis and characterize the thin film deposits on their corrosion resistance and morphology. The influence of the substrate/Ni-Mo-P interaction on electrochemically deposited ZnO will also be presented.