Patent ID: 8053261

Claim:
A method of fabricating a light emitting device, comprising: mounting light emitting elements to a substrate at light emitting element mounting regions, respectively, of the substrate, separated from one another by isolation regions of the substrate; forming a pattern of lens supports on the light emitting element mounting regions, respectively, wherein each of the lens supports is raised relative to the isolation regions so as to have a step height with respect to the isolation regions; and forming, on the lens supports, lenses over the light emitting elements, respectively, wherein the forming of the pattern of lens supports comprises forming, on the substrate, an insulating layer that covers the light emitting elements, and removing part of the insulating layer, wherein the forming of the insulating layer comprises sequentially forming a first insulating film and a second insulating film on the substrate, and wherein the forming of the pattern of lens supports comprises patterning the second insulating to form upper portions of the lens supports, and patterning the first insulating film to form lower portions of the lens supports each disposed beneath and wider than a respective one of the upper portions of the lens supports, whereby each of the lens supports has a step therein.