Radiation imagery chemistry: process – composition – or product th – Electric or magnetic imagery – e.g. – xerography,... – Radiation-sensitive composition or product
Patent
1994-11-10
1996-04-09
Martin, Roland
Radiation imagery chemistry: process, composition, or product th
Electric or magnetic imagery, e.g., xerography,...
Radiation-sensitive composition or product
430 59, 430 96, G03G 504, G03G 5047
Patent
active
055060811
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
DESCRIPTION
1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to photosensitive recording materials suitable for use in electrophotography.
2. Background of the Invention
In electrophotography photoconductive materials are used to form a latent electrostatic charge image that is developable with finely divided colouring material, called toner.
The developed image can then be permanently affixed to the photoconductive recording material, e.g. a photoconductive zinc oxide-binder layer, or transferred from the photoconductor layer, e.g. a selenium or selenium alloy layer, onto a receptor material, e.g. plain paper and fixed thereon. In electrophotographic copying and printing systems with toner transfer to a receptor material the photoconductive recording material is reusable. In order to permit rapid multiple printing or copying, a photoconductor layer has to be used that rapidly loses its charge on photo-exposure and also rapidly regains its insulating state after the exposure to receive again a sufficiently high electrostatic charge for a next image formation. The failure of a material to return completely to its relatively insulating state prior to succeeding charging/imaging steps is commonly known in the art as "fatigue".
The fatigue phenomenon has been used as a guide in the selection of commercially useful photoconductive materials, since the fatigue of the photoconductive layer limits the copying rates achievable.
A further important property which determines the suitability of a particular photoconductive material for electrophotographic copying is its photosensitivity, which must be sufficiently high for use in copying apparatuses operating with the fairly low intensity light reflected from the original. Commercial usefulness also requires that the photoconductive layer has a spectral sensitivity that matches the spectral intensity distribution of the light source e.g. a laser or a lamp. This enables, in the case of a white light source, all the colours to be reproduced in balance.
Known photoconductive recording materials exist in different configurations with one or more "active" layers coated on a conducting substrate and include optionally an outermost protective layer. By "active" layer is meant a layer that plays a role in the formation of the electrostatic charge image. Such a layer may be the layer responsible for charge carrier generation, charge carrier transport or both. Such layers may have a homogeneous structure or heterogeneous structure.
Examples of active layers in said photoconductive recording material having a homogeneous structure are layers made of vacuum-deposited photoconductive selenium, doped silicon, selenium alloys and homogeneous photoconducting polymer coatings, e.g. of poly(vinylcarbazole) or polymeric binder(s) molecularly doped with an electron (negative charge carrier) transporting compound or a hole (positive charge carrier) transporting compound such as particular hydrazones, amines and heteroaromatic compounds sensitized by a dissolved dye, so that in said layers both charge carrier generation and charge carrier transport take place.
Examples of active layers in said photoconductive recording material having a heterogeneous structure are layers of one or more photosensitive organic or inorganic charge generating pigment particles dispersed in a polymer binder or polymer binder mixture in the presence optionally of (a) molecularly dispersed charge transport compound(s), so that the recording layer may exhibit only charge carrier generation properties or both charge carrier generation and charge transport properties.
According to an embodiment that may offer photoconductive recording materials with particularly low fatigue a charge generating and charge transporting layer are combined in contiguous relationship. Layers which serve only for the charge transport of charge generated in an adjacent charge generating layer are e.g. plasma-deposited inorganic layers, photoconducting polymer layers, e.g. on the basis of poly(N-vinylcarbazole) or layers made of low
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De Meutter Stefaan
Monbaliu Marcel
Terrell David
Agfa-Gevaert N.V.
Martin Roland
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