Patent ID: 8173465

Claim:
A method for fabricating a light emitting diode chip, comprising: forming a semiconductor layer and a conductive layer sequentially on a substrate, wherein a first type semiconductor material layer, a light emitting material layer and a second type semiconductor material layer form the semiconductor layer; forming a first patterned photoresist layer on the conductive layer, wherein the first patterned photoresist layer comprises a first photoresist block and a second photoresist block, and a thickness of the first photoresist block is thinner than a thickness of the second photoresist block; removing a portion of the conductive layer and a portion of the semiconductor layer with the first patterned photoresist layer as a mask to form a semiconductor device layer; reducing a thickness of the first patterned photoresist layer until the first photoresist block is removed completely and using the remaining second photoresist block as a mask to partially remove the conductive layer to form a current spreading layer, wherein the current spreading layer partially exposes the semiconductor device layer; removing the remaining second photoresist block; and forming a patterned dielectric layer and a plurality of electrodes on the current spreading layer and the semiconductor device layer.