Patent ID: 8878219

Claim:
A light emitting diode (LED) chip wafer, comprising: a submount wafer; a plurality of LEDs having contacts accessible at one side and mounted to said submount wafer so that said contacts are accessible at said submount wafer; a phosphor loaded binder coating at least partially covering said LEDs and having substantially the same thickness over each of said LEDs and being continuous and unobstructed over each of said LEDs such that the light emitted from each of said LEDs is substantially uniform, at least some of the light emitted from said LEDs passing through said coating where at least some of said LED light is converted by the phosphor in said coating; conductive vias through said submount wafer, wherein each of said conductive vias is in electrical contact with one of said contacts; and a dielectric material insulating said conductive vias from said submount wafer.