Patent ID: 8643033

Claim:
A light emitting device comprising: a substrate elongated in a lengthwise direction and having a widthwise direction perpendicular to the lengthwise direction; a plurality of LED chips disposed on the substrate in an intermediate region in the widthwise direction, and aligned along the lengthwise direction; and interconnection wirings formed on regions outside of the intermediate region in the widthwise direction, wherein distances between adjacent pair of the LED chips aligned along the lengthwise direction is 80 μm or less, and each of the LED chips has a p-side electrode disposed on the substrate, a p-type semiconductor layer disposed on the p-side electrode and connected electrically to the p-side electrode, an active layer formed on the p-type semiconductor layer, and an n-type semiconductor layer formed on the active layer, and has a region in which the n-type semiconductor layer, the active layer, and the p-type semiconductor layer are patterned, and an n-side electrode formed selectively on a surface of the n-type semiconductor layer and connected to the p-side electrode of an adjacent LED chip through the interconnection wiring.