Disclosed is a color emissive LED array having a substantially flat backplane which has circuitry. The color emissive LED array includes a plurality of multi thickness color emissive LED units disposed in an array on the substantially flat backplane; The plurality of multi thickness color emissive LED units have a thickness of the first color emissive LED unit is less than a thickness of the second color emissive LED unit and less than a thickness of the third color emissive LED unit. Meanwhile, the substantially flat backplane having circuitry has one or more anode and one or more cathode. Further, the array is attached to the substantially flat backplane having circuitry by using a jointing layer.