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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 06, 1976
Filed:
Sep. 16, 1974
Philip Henry Wisbey, Braintree, EN;
The Marconi Company Limited, Chelmsford, EN;
Abstract
The invention relates to the manufacture of arrays of light emitting diodes (L.E.D.'s) from a wafer consisting of an n-type epitaxial layer on an n.sup.+ substrate. The method includes the steps of forming p-type islands by diffusing a p-type dopant into the epitaxial layer of an n on n.sup.+ wafer, establishing contact with all of the p-type islands by means of a first set of conductors, mounting the wafer on a transparent support with the first set of conductors adjacent the support, depositing a second set of conductors on the n.sup.+ substrate and etching both the substrate and the epitaxial layer from between the conductors of the second set, the two sets of conductors being orthogonal and each p-n junction formed by a p-type island and the epitaxial layer being in contact with one and only one conductor from each set.