Patent ID: 7074631

Claim:
A method of making a light-emitting device, the method comprising: disposing a planarization layer on a surface of a layer of semiconductor material; disposing a lithography layer on a surface of the planarization layer; performing nanolithography to remove at least a portion of the planarization layer, at least a portion of the lithography layer and at least a portion of the layer of semiconductor material, thereby forming a dielectric function in the surface of the layer of semiconductor material that varies spatially according to a pattern; after removing portions of the lithography and planarization layers, depositing a material on exposed portions of the layer of semiconductor material; depositing the material on an exposed upper surface of the lithography layer; removing the portions of lithography layer having the material deposited thereon; and removing portions of the layer of semiconductor material that do not have the material deposited thereon to form the pattern in the surface of the layer of semiconductor material.