Patent ID: 7135711

Claim:
An electroluminescent body ( 1 ), having a substrate ( 2 ); a plurality of radiation decoupling elements ( 4 ) arranged at a distance next to one another on the substrate ( 2 ) and having a width (b) and a height (h), which in each case have an active layer stack ( 7 ) with an emission zone ( 8 ); and a contact element ( 9 ) on each radiation decoupling element ( 4 ), wherein the contact elements ( 9 ) have a width b′, which is less than the respective width b of the assigned radiation decoupling element ( 4 ); and the width b of the radiation decoupling elements ( 4 ), for a given height h, is chosen in such a way that substantially no light radiated laterally from the emission zone ( 8 ) is subjected to total reflection at the side areas ( 12 ) of the radiation decoupling elements ( 4 ), but rather is decoupled directly at the side areas ( 12 ).