Processes for preparing chalcogenide alloys

US5002734A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Xerox Corporation · US

Inventors

• Lawrence E. Kowalczyk · Webster, US
• Santokh S. Badesha · Pittsford, US
• Paul F. Zukoski · Henrietta, US
• Monroe J. Hordon · Pittsford, US
• Steven M. Sterling · Walworth, US
• Barry A. Lees · Fairport, US
• Frederick A. Elder · Webster, US
• Roger W. LaForce · Fairport, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Jan 31, 1989
• Grant date: Mar 26, 1991
• Expiry date: Jan 31, 2009

Classification

• Technology area (CPC C): Chemistry; Metallurgy
• CPC primary: C01P2006/80
• WIPO field: Materials, metallurgy
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

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.