Patent ID: 7482181

Claim:
A method for fabricating a light-emitting device, which comprises the steps of: forming at least one compound semiconductor layer based on gallium nitride and being an active layer or a part of an active layer sequence, the at least one compound semiconductor layer being a light-emitting layer; and setting growth parameters used during production of the compound semiconductor layer such that, at least in some cases in a vicinity of dislocations in the compound semiconductor layer, regions are produced in the compound semiconductor layer having a lower thickness than remaining regions of the compound semiconductor layer; wherein said regions with the lower thickness are formed to be less than half as thick as the remaining regions of the compound semiconductor layer in the final structure of the light-emitting device; and wherein the light-emitting device is Indium free, and the light-emitting layer comprises Al y Ga 1-y N, where 0<y<1.