Patent ID: 8125128

Claim:
An electroluminescent element, wherein an electrode, an electroluminescent layer, a high-refractive-index layer and a translucent body are sequentially laminated; and a layer having a light-scattering function is provided on the light-emitting-surface side of each of the high-refractive-index layer and the translucent body, wherein each of the layers having the light-scattering function contains transparent particles; the refractive index of the transparent particles contained in the layer having the light-scattering function provided on the light-emitting-surface side of the high-refractive-index layer is 1.6 or more while the refractive index of the transparent particles contained in the layer having the light-scattering function provided on the light-emitting-surface side of the translucent body is 1.7 or less.