Patent ID: 8779445

Claim:
A semiconductor structure, the structure comprising: a dice comprising: a substrate; a non-crystalline stress-alleviation layer on the substrate; open regions and a first stress-alleviation region on the substrate, the first stress-alleviation region being a part of the non-crystalline stress-alleviation layer and forming a ring-like structure along the periphery of the dice, the first stress-alleviation region surrounding all of the open regions on the dice, and the first stress-alleviation region not contacting another part of the non-crystalline stress-alleviation layer; and epitaxial layers on the substrate, at least in the open regions, forming light emitting diode (LED) structures therein, the LED structures having bottom surfaces proximate the substrate and top surfaces distal the substrate, the non-crystalline stress-alleviation layer having a top surface substantially coplanar with the top surfaces of the LED structures.