Any light-emitting material publicly known in the past can be used as the light-emitting material in the present invention so long as it is oriented horizontally with the substrate in the light-emitting layer and the order parameter is at least 0.7, but from the standpoint of improving the orientation of the light-emitting material, the aspect ratio (molecular length/molecular thickness) is preferably greater than 3, more preferably greater than 5, and even more preferably greater than 5 and no more than 30, with 5.3 to 20 being especially favorable.
If the aforementioned aspect ratio is greater than 3, there will be little molecular fluctuation, and the decrease in orientation will be suppressed.
Note that in the present invention, the “molecular length” of the host material (described later) and the light-emitting material means the average values ((a+b)/2) of the lengths a and b of two sides of the closest quadrangle when the molecule of the material is imagined to have a flat structure as shown in