Patent ID: 8334153

Claim:
A method of fabricating a semiconductor light emitting device, comprising: forming an light emitting element which comprises a nitride-based III-V compound semiconductor on a substrate; forming a plurality of isolation grooves of stripe shape which reach the substrate at a predetermined interval; forming a second electrode layer on the light emitting element and inside of the isolation grooves; forming a seed electrode layer to cover all of a surface of the second electrode layer; forming a plated layer by electroplating all of a surface of the seed electrode layer, the plated layer not being formed in bottoms of the isolation grooves; irradiating a laser along the isolation grooves from a direction of a surface opposite to a surface of the isolation grooves on the substrate to peel off the substrate by laser lift-off; etching the light emitting element to isolate a plurality of light emitting elements; forming an insulating film on at least sidewalls of the plurality of light emitting elements; forming a light extraction surface by roughly processing at least portions of upper surfaces of the plurality of light emitting elements; forming a first electrode layer on portions of the upper surfaces of the plurality of light emitting elements; and dicing the plurality of light emitting elements.