Patent ID: 8877526

Claim:
A method for manufacturing a semiconductor light emitting device including a first semiconductor layer including an n-type semiconductor layer; a second semiconductor layer including a p-type semiconductor layer; and a light emitting part provided between the first semiconductor layer and the second semiconductor layer, and including a plurality of barrier layers and a well layer provided between the barrier layers, the first semiconductor layer having: a first major surface on an opposite side to the light emitting part, a first irregularity provided on the first major surface and having a bottom face and a top face, and a second irregularity provided on the bottom face and the top face and having a bottom portion and a top portion, the first irregularity having a first level difference between the bottom face and the top face along a first direction from the first semiconductor layer toward the second semiconductor layer; and the second irregularity having a second level difference between the bottom portion and the top portion along the first direction, the second level difference being smaller than the first level difference, the method comprising: forming a third irregularity serving as a basis of the second irregularity on a substrate major surface of a substrate; forming a mask material having a pattern shape corresponding to a pattern of the first irregularity on the substrate major surface on which the third irregularity is formed; processing the substrate major surface using the mask material as a mask to form a fourth irregularity serving as a basis of the first irregularity; and forming the first semiconductor layer on the substrate major surface on which the third irregularity and the fourth irregularity have been formed.