White light-emitting device and method for producing same

There are provided a white light emitting device of high luminous efficiency prevented from luminance deterioration even in large electric current range, and a method for manufacturing the same with high production yield. The white light emitting device (1) is composed of a blue LED element (4) and an oxide layer (8) containing a fluorescent material which is integrated with the blue LED element (4). In the blue LED element (4), a p-side electrode (11) is formed on a surface of a p-type layer of epitaxial layers (6) formed by laminating GaN based compound semiconductor layers on a surface of a light transmitting crystal substrate (3), and an n-side electrode (10) is formed on a bottom surface of a recessed portion (9) which is an n-type layer exposed by selectively etching a part of the p-type layer and the light emitting layer. The oxide layer (8) is formed by sintering a YAG fluorescent material and a glass binder containing mainly SiO 2 , B 2 O 3 and PbO for binding the fluorescent material. The white ligh