Patent ID: 8183072

Claim:
A method of fabricating a light emitting device comprising a plurality of non-polar light emitting cells, the method comprising: forming stripe-shaped anti-growth patterns on an upper surface of a first substrate, wherein the first substrate comprises sapphire or silicon carbide and the upper surface comprises an r-plane, an a-plane or an m-plane; forming recess regions in the upper surface, wherein the anti-growth patterns define openings that expose the first substrate, the recess regions being positioned below the openings of the anti-growth patterns and comprising sidewalls of a c-plane; growing nitride semiconductor layers on the first substrate, the nitride semiconductor layers being first grown from the sidewalls of the recess regions and aligned with the c-plane thereof, and then being filled in the recess regions and covering the anti-growth patterns; and patterning the nitride semiconductor layers to form the light emitting cells separated from one another, portions of the nitride semiconductor layers being removed from at least middle regions of the recess regions between the sidewalls and middle regions of the anti-growth patterns.