Patent ID: 8921877

Claim:
A semiconductor light-emitting device comprising: a base board having a mounting surface and a conductor pattern formed on the mounting surface; a semiconductor light-emitting chip having an end, a chip bottom surface, a top surface and a chip side surface, and including chip electrodes adjacent the chip bottom surface, and the top surface of the semiconductor light-emitting chip including the end of the semiconductor light-emitting chip; a transparent plate having an end, a plate side surface and a plate bottom surface formed in a substantially planar shape, and located over the top surface of the semiconductor light-emitting chip so that the plate bottom surface of the transparent plate covers the top surface of the semiconductor light-emitting chip, and the plate bottom surface of the transparent plate including the end of the transparent plate, wherein the end of the transparent plate is located at an outer side of the end of the semiconductor light-emitting chip in plan view; and a wavelength converting layer having a thickness and a layer side surface being disposed between the transparent plate and the semiconductor light-emitting chip, and the wavelength converting layer covering at least a part of the chip side surface of the semiconductor light-emitting chip, the layer side surface of the wavelength converting layer forming a slant surface that extends from the chip side surface of the semiconductor light-emitting chip to the plate side surface of the transparent plate, the wavelength converting layer including at least one phosphor having a phosphor particle size and a particulate spacer having a spacer particle size that is larger than the phosphor particle size of the at least one phosphor, wherein the thickness of the wavelength converting layer is defined between the top surface of the semiconductor light-emitting chip and the plate bottom surface of the transparent plate and is maintained by supporting the plate bottom surface of the transparent plate using the particulate spacer located on the top surface of the semiconductor light-emitting chip; and; a reflective material layer covering the slant surface of the wavelength converting layer.