Patent ID: 8809894

Claim:
A semiconductor light emitting diode comprising: a support substrate; an intermediate layer including an intermediate electrode portion, a second conductive semiconductor layer, an active layer, a first conductive semiconductor layer and an upper electrode portion sequentially disposed on an upper surface side of the support substrate in this order; and a lower electrode layer provided on a lower surface side of the support substrate, wherein: the second conductive semiconductor layer, the active layer, and the first conductive semiconductor layer consist of an AlGaAs-based material or an AlGaInP-based material, and have a thickness of 1 μm to 10 μm, 10 nm to 500 nm, and 1 μm to 10 μm, respectively: the intermediate layer has at least one intermediate electrode portion extending linearly and in an island shape, the upper electrode portion is in a comb shape, and the upper electrode portion and the intermediate electrode portion are disposed in such a positional relationship that these electrode portions are in parallel with and offset from each other and a distance between the upper electrode portion and the intermediate electrode portion is within the range of 10 μm to 50 μm in a view obtained by projecting these electrode portions on an imaginary plane in parallel with the upper surface of the support substrate, respectively.