Abstract:
The presently disclosed embodiments are directed to charge transport layers useful in electrostatography. More particularly, the embodiments pertain to an improved electrostatographic imaging member having a specific photoreceptor material package comprising a thick conductive undercoat layer, a charge generation layer, a long life charge transport layer, and an optional overcoat layer.
Abstract:
In a planar radiation detector having a substrate; a charge-collection electrode; a radiation-induced-charge conversion film formed mainly of amorphous selenium; and an upper electrode which transmits radiation, or in a planar radiation detector having a substrate; a charge-collection electrode; a light-induced-charge conversion film which is formed mainly of amorphous selenium and generates electric charge when the light-induced-charge conversion film is irradiated with visible light which has passed through an upper electrode; the upper electrode which transmits the visible light emitted from a fluorescent layer; and the fluorescent layer formed of a fluorescent material which converts a radiation carrying image information into the visible light, the radiation-induced-charge conversion film or the light-induced-charge conversion film is formed of amorphous selenium or amorphous selenium alloy and has a residual oxygen concentration of 35 ppm or lower.
Abstract:
There is disclosed a photoconductor for use in an electrophotographic apparatus. The photoconductor includes a conductive substrate and a photoconductive layer formed on the conductive substrate. The photoconductive layer includes an As.sub.2 Se.sub.3 alloy containing 36% to 40% by weight of As and doped with 1,000 to 20,000 parts per million of iodine. A method of manufacturing a photoconductor is also disclosed, which includes forming a photoconductive layer by vapor deposition on a conductive substrate and thermally treating the photoconductive layer at a temperature between 100 and 200 degrees Celsius for a period between 30 and 80 minutes. Advantageously, the photoconductor of the present invention is able to provide high quality images at high printing speeds.
Abstract translation:公开了用于电子照相设备中的光电导体。 光电导体包括导电衬底和形成在导电衬底上的光电导层。 光电导层包括含有36重量%至40重量%的As并掺杂有1,000至20,000份/百万份碘的As 2 Se 3合金。 还公开了一种制造光电导体的方法,其包括通过气相沉积在导电基底上形成光电导层并在100至200摄氏度的温度下热处理光电导层30至80分钟。 有利地,本发明的光电导体能够以高打印速度提供高质量的图像。
Abstract:
Disclosed is an apparatus for evaporation of a vacuum evaporatable material onto a substrate, said apparatus comprising (a) a walled container for the vacuum evaporatable material having a plurality of apertures in a surface thereof, said apertures being configured so that the vacuum evaporatable material is uniformly deposited onto the substrate; and (b) a source of heat sufficient to effect evaporation of the vacuum evaporatable material from the container through the apertures onto the substrate, wherein the surface of the container having the plurality of apertures therein is maintained at a temperature equal to or greater than the temperature of the vacuum evaporatable material.
Abstract:
An electrophotographic photoreceptor having a good printing quality can be provided by a photoreceptor comprising a charge transporation layer composed of a photosensitive material containing a hole mobility enhancing material. Thus, in accordance with an emboidment of the invention, it is possible to rapidly attenuate negative charge and to obtain a photoreceptor having a good printing quality by adding a hole mobility enhancing material to the CTL without producing a difference in print density between regions of the photoreceptor between sheets of paper and covered with a sheet. Some metal oxides and acids, such as WO.sub.2, WO.sub.3, MnO.sub.4, H.sub.3 PO.sub.3, H.sub.2 SO.sub.3 and HAsO.sub.2, are found to have a hole mobility enhancing effect to a CTL of a selenium alloy. Some metal elements, such as Sn, Co, Pb, Fe, Cu, Hg, Ag and Ce, are also found to have a hole mobility enhancing effect to the CTL. Finally, halogen elements are also found to have a hole mobility enhancing effect to the CTL.
Abstract:
A process for the preparation of chalcogenide alloys which comprises crystallizing a chalcogenide alloy, grinding and pelletizing the crystallized product, and evaporating the alloy on, for example, a supporting substrate to form a photoreceptor.
Abstract:
An electrophotographic photoreceptor is provided comprising, in sequence:a) a conductive base;b) a carrier transport layer;c) a carrier generation layer comprising a selenium alloy;d) a carrier injection regulating layer having a band gap energy greater than that of the carrier generation layer and comprising selenium and up to about 10 weight % arsenic;e) a thermal expansion relieving layer comprising aresenic and selenium; andf) a surface protective layer comprising arsenic and selenium in an atomic ratio of approximately 2 to 3;wherein the arsenic concentration in the thermal expansion relieving layer gradually increases from a concentration substantially equal to that of the carrier injection regulating layer on a face of the thermal expansion relieving layer adjacent to the carrier injection regulating layer to a concentration substantially equal to that of the surface protective layer on an opposite face of the thermal expansion relieving layer adjacent to the surface protective layer. This structure eliminates or reduces damage to the photoreceptor caused by thermal stress when the carrier generation layer and the carrier injection regulating layer have greater thermal expansion coefficients than the As.sub.2 Se.sub.3 of the surface protective layer.
Abstract:
A process for controlling fractionation in selenium alloys comprising providing pellets of an alloy comprising amorphous selenium and an alloying component selected from the group consisting of tellurium, arsenic, and mixtures thereof, the particles having an average particle size between about 300 micrometers and about 3,000 micrometers, exposing the pellets to an ambient temperature of between about 114.degree. C. and about 190.degree. C. until an exotherm occurs in the pellets resulting in substantially complete crystallization between about 104.degree. C. and about 180.degree. C., grinding the pellets into fresh powder having an average particle size of less than about 200 micrometers, and compressing the fresh powder into fresh pellets having an average weight between about 50 mg and about 1000 mg. The resulting fresh pellets may be heated in a vacuum chamber to vacuum deposit the alloy onto a substrate.
Abstract:
An electrophotographic imaging member comprising providing a conductive substrate, an alloy layer comprising selenium doped with arsenic having a thickness of between about 100 micrometers and about 400 micrometers, the alloy layer comprising between about 0.3 percent and about 2 percent by weight arsenic at the surface of the alloy layer facing away from the conductive substrate and comprising crystalline selenium having a thickness of from about 0.01 micrometer to about 1 micrometer contiguous to the conductive substrate, and a thin protective overcoating layer on the alloy layer, the overcoating layer having a thickness between about 0.05 micrometer and about 0.3 micrometer and comprising from about 0.5 percent to about 3 percent by weight nigrosine. This photoreceptor is prepared by providing a conductive substrate, cleaning the substrate, heating an alloy comprising selenium and from about 0.05 percent to about 2 percent by weight arsenic until from about 2 percent to about 90 percent by weight of the selenium in the alloy is crystallized, vacuum depositing the alloy on the substrate to form a vitreous photoconductive insulating layer having a thickness of between about 100 micrometers and about 400 micrometers containing between about 0.3 percent and about 2 percent by weight arsenic at the surface of the photoconductive insulating layer facing away from the conductive substrate, applying thin protective overcoating layer on the photoconductive insulating layer, the overcoating layer having a thickness between about 0.05 micrometer and about 0.3 micrometer and comprising from about 0.5 percent to about 3 percent by weight nigrosine, and heating the photoconductive insulating layer until only the selenium in the layer adjacent the substrate crystallizes to form a continuous substantially uniform crystalline layer having a thickness up to about one micrometer.
Abstract:
An ambipolar electrophotographic plate and materials used in the manufacture thereof including a photoconductive layer formulated of selenium, selenium-arsenic alloy or selenium-arsenic-tellurium alloy containing indium as a dopant which extends the range for electrons without noticeable deterioration of the long range for holes.