Abstract:
A lead frame for an optical semiconductor device, having a reflection layer at least on one side or each side of the outermost surface of a substrate, partially or entirely, in which the reflection layer has, on the outermost surface at least in a region where light emitted by an optical semiconductor element is reflected, a microstructure with at least the surface thereof having been mechanically deformed, which is converted from a plating microstructure formed of a metal or an alloy thereof; a method of producing the same, and an optical semiconductor device having the same.