Patent ID: 7342357

Claim:
A light emitting diode comprising an LED chip having a light emitting layer made of a nitride compound semiconductor and a light transmitting resin that includes a fluorescent material which absorbs at least a part of light emitted by said LED chip and emits light of a different wavelength, wherein said fluorescent material includes fluorescent particles of small particle size and fluorescent particles of large particle size, said fluorescent particles of large particle size being distributed in the vicinity of said LED chip in said light transmitting resin to form a wavelength converting layer, said fluorescent particles of small particle size being distributed on the outside of said wavelength converting layer in the light transmitting resin, and wherein the peak diameter of the particle size distribution of said fluorescent particles of large particle size ranges from 20 to 90 times the peak diameter of the particle size distribution of said fluorescent particles of small particle size.