Patent ID: 7838315

Claim:
A method of manufacturing a vertical LED, comprising the steps of: preparing a sapphire substrate; forming a light emitting structure in which an n-type nitride semiconductor layer, an active layer, and a p-type nitride semiconductor layer are sequentially laminated on the sapphire substrate; forming buffer films on portions of the surface of the p-type nitride semiconductor layer; forming a p-electrode on the resulting structure having the buffer films formed thereon; forming a structure support layer on the resulting structure having the p-electrode formed thereon; removing the sapphire substrate through an LLO (Laser Lift-Off) process; isolating the light emitting structure into unit LED elements by removing portions of the light emitting structure corresponding to position of the buffer films through an ISO (Isolation) process; and forming an n-electrode on each of the n-type nitride semiconductor layers of the isolated light emitting structures.