Patent ID: 7833074

Claim:
A method of making a top-emitting LED device, comprising: a) providing, over a substrate a laterally spaced and optically opaque lower electrode and an upper electrode bus that is electrically insulated from the lower electrode; b) depositing material forming an EL medium structure over the lower electrode and the upper electrode bus; c) depositing, over the EL medium structure, a first light-transmissive upper electrode that protects the EL medium structure from particulate contamination; d) selectively removing the first light-transmissive upper electrode and most of the EL medium structure over a selective portion of the upper electrode bus; and e) depositing a second light-transmissive upper electrode over and in direct electrical contact with the first light-transmissive upper electrode so that such second upper electrode is in electrical contact with at least an upper surface of the upper electrode bus.