Patent ID: 7427524

Claim:
A method of making an optoelectronic device packaging assembly, comprising: providing an electrical sub-mount including a mounting area; providing a device turning mount having a sub-mount mounting side and a device mounting side; attaching the sub-mount mounting side to the mounting area of the electrical sub-mount with the device mounting area oriented in a plane substantially perpendicular to the mounting area of the electrical sub-mount; providing a light-emitting device including one or more semiconductor layers terminating at a common light-emitting surface and operable to emit light from the light-emitting surface; and attaching the light-emitting device to the device mounting area of the device turning mount with the light-emitting surface oriented in a plane substantially parallel to the mounting area of the electrical sub-mount; wherein providing the device turning mount comprises: filling a hole in a substrate having a substantially plane surface with electrically conducting filling material, the hole extending through the substrate in a direction substantially perpendicular to the substantially planar surface; and forming on the substantially planar surface of the substrate an electrical trace extending over the hole; cutting the substrate in a plane aligned with the hole and substantially perpendicular to the substantially planar surface of the substrate to expose electrically conducting filling material.