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Amorphous silicon electrophotographic photosensitive materials
Assignee: Fujifilm Holdings Corp
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Filing: 1984-07-06
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Granted: 1985-11-26
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Expires: 2004-07-06
Abstract
Abstract An electrophotographic photosensitive material comprising a conductive support having thereon, in succession, a photoconductive layer composed of an amorphous material containing silicon atom and a barrier layer mainly composed of carbon and silicon, nitrogen and silicon, or oxygen and silicon, and further on the barrier layer a surface improvement layer having a composition of carbon and silicon of from 0.70/1 to 0.95/1 by atomic ratio in carbon/carbon+silicon, and the composition ratio being larger than that of the barrier layer.
Inventors
- 👤 Keishiro Kido
- 👤 Hiroshi Sunagawa
- 👤 Kazuhiro Kawajiri
- 👤 Toshio Iijima
- 👤 Nobuharu Nozaki
Bibliographic Details
Application Number
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Jurisdiction
US
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2026-10-28 10:01
CPC Classifications
G; G03; G03G; G03G5/00; G03G5/02; G03G5/04; G03G5/08; G03G5/082; G03G5/08214; G03G5/08235
Claims Analysis
Total Claims: 8
Claim 1
Independent Claim
87 words
An electrophotographic photosensitive material comprising a conductive support having thereon, in succession, a photoconductive layer composed of an amorphous silicon containing silicon atoms and hydrogen atoms and a barrier layer mainly composed of silicon and a further element selected from the group consisting of carbon, nitrogen and oxygen and further on the barrier layer a surface improvement layer having a composition of carbon and silicon of from 0.70/1 to 0.95/1 by atomic ratio in carbon/carbon+silicon, and said composition ratio being larger than that of the barrier layer.
Claim 2
Dependent Claim
87 words
An electrophotographic photosensitive material comprising a conductive support having thereon, in succession, a photoconductive layer composed of an amorphous silicon containing silicon atoms and hydrogen atoms and a barrier layer mainly composed of silicon and a further element selected from the group consisting of carbon, nitrogen and oxygen and further on the barrier layer a surface improvement layer having a composition of carbon and silicon of from 0.70/1 to 0.95/1 by atomic ratio in carbon/carbon+silicon, and said composition ratio being larger than that of the barrier layer.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim
28 words
An electrophotographic photosensitive material as in claim 1, wherein said surface improvement layer has a thickness of from the thickness corresponding to a monomolecular layer to 30 μm.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim
16 words
An electrophotographic photosensitive material as in claim 1, wherein said surface improvement layer contains fluorine atoms.
Claim 5
Dependent Claim
30 words
An electrophotographic photosensitive material as in claim 1, wherein said surface improvement layer contains fluorine atoms in an amount of from 1 to 30% of the total number of atoms.
Claim 6
Dependent Claim
29 words
An electrophotographic photosensitive material as in claim 1, wherein the barrier layer is mainly composed of carbon and silicon and the ratio of carbon/carbon+silicon is from 0.4/1 to 0.9/1.
Claim 7
Dependent Claim
32 words
An electrophotographic photosensitive material as in claim 1, wherein the barrier layer is mainly composed of nitrogen and silicon and the content of nitrogen atoms is from 25 to 55 atomic %.
Claim 8
Dependent Claim
33 words
An electrophotographic photosensitive material as in claim 1, wherein the barrier layer is mainly composed of oxygen and silicon and the content of the oxygen atoms is from 40 to 65 atomic %.
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