Patent ID: 7348600

Claim:
A semiconductor light-emitting device, comprising: a substrate; an n-type semiconductor layer formed on the substrate; a recess formed on a major surface of the n-type semiconductor layer, the recess having a planar bottom surface with a crystal orientation and planar sidewalls each having a different crystal orientation from the bottom surface; an active layer conformably formed on the n-type semiconductor layer such that a portion of the active layer is located within the recess and a portion of the active layer is located outside the recess; and, a p-type semiconductor layer formed on the active layer such that a portion of the p-type layer is formed on the portion of the active layer located within the recess, wherein the portion of the p-type layer has a bottom surface having the same crystal orientation as the bottom surface of the recess and sidewalls having the same crystal orientation as the sidewalls of the recess.