SURFACE ILLUMINANT, AND DISPLAY DEVICE

摘要

Provided are a surface illuminant, which is enabled to suppress formation of a moire image by highly improving the quantity and surface luminance of a light emitted from the surface illuminant, and a liquid crystal display device, which uses the surface illuminant as a back light. The surface illuminant includes a surface illuminating element and a dimming sheet. The surface illuminant is characterized in that the dimming sheet is provided, at least on its one face, with a plurality of protrusions, in that the protrusions contact at their leading end portions with the illuminating face of the surface illuminating element through an adhesive layer, and in that the dimming sheet has a haze value of 85 % or more.