Fitzpatrick, Cella, Harper & Scinto
Member having light receiving layer with smoothly interconnecting nonparallel interfaces
 A light-receiving member comprises a substrate and a light-receiving layer of a multi-layer structure having a first layer comprising an amorphous material containing silicon atoms and germanium atoms and a second layer comprising an amorphous material containing silicon atoms and exhibiting photoconductivity provided successively from the substrate side, said light-receiving layer having at least one pair of non-parallel interfaces within a short range and said non-parallel interfaces being aranged in a large number in at least one direction within the plane perpendicular to the layer thickness direction, said non-parallel interfaces being connected to one another smoothly in the direction in which they are arranged. 
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
G G
G03G G03G
inventional inventional
Keishi Masahiro Yoshio Teruo Kyosuke Tetsuo
Saitoh Kanai Tsuezuki Misumi Ogawa Sueda