Patent ID: 8104665

Claim:
A manufacturing method for a composite substrate having an optical device wafer composed of a sapphire substrate and an optical device layer formed on the front side of said sapphire substrate and a heat sink substrate bonded to the front side of said optical device layer in said optical device wafer, said manufacturing method comprising: a sapphire substrate thickness uniforming step of grinding said sapphire substrate to uniform the thickness of said sapphire substrate; an optical device layer forming step of forming said optical device layer on the front side of said sapphire substrate after performing said sapphire substrate thickness uniforming step; a composite substrate forming step of bonding the front side of said heat sink substrate through a bonding metal layer to the front side of said optical device layer formed on the front side of said sapphire substrate, thereby forming said composite substrate; a composite substrate thickness uniforming step of grinding the back side of said heat sink substrate in the condition where said sapphire substrate of said composite substrate is held on a chuck table of a grinding apparatus, thereby uniforming the thickness of said composite substrate; and a finish grinding step of grinding the back side of said sapphire substrate in the condition where said heat sink substrate of said composite substrate is held on a chuck table of a grinding apparatus after performing said composite substrate thickness uniforming step, thereby reducing the thickness of said sapphire substrate to a predetermined thickness.