Patent ID: 8436362

Claim:
A method for manufacturing a solid state lighting (SSL) device, comprising: forming an SSL formation structure, the SSL formation structure having a formation structure CTE; selecting a first material of an interlayer structure to have a first material CTE greater than the formation structure CTE; selecting a second material of the interlayer structure based at least in part on the second material having a second material CTE less than the first material CTE; forming the interlayer structure over the SSL formation structure by disposing at least: a first layer of the first material over the SSL formation structure; a portion of the second material over the first material; and a second layer of the first material over the second material; counteracting a force placed on the formation structure by the first material, by virtue of the difference between the second material CTE and the first material CTE; and supporting an activatable SSL emitter material with the SSL formation structure.