Lighting Device

A method of producing a lighting device, the method comprising:

• providing at least one semiconductor layer;
• providing at least one light emission surface with an array of high luminance areas configured to emit light at a first local luminance level and low luminance areas configured to emit no light;
• forming a plurality of semiconductor light emitting devices in the semiconductor layer to define the plurality of high luminance areas;
• arranging the high luminance areas and the low luminance areas configured to emit no light in accordance with a predefined light emission profile of the light emission surface;
• arranging first contact elements respectively in correspondence with the low luminance areas configured to emit no light and second contact elements respectively in correspondence with the high luminance areas;
• and
• arranging the first contact elements respectively to be not in electrical contact with at least one of the n-doped region and the p-doped region of respective low luminance areas configured to emit no light.