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Photographic material having enhanced light absorption

US6620581B1 · kind B1 · utility

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Filing dateOct 16, 2000
Grant dateSep 16, 2003
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Expiry dateDec 3, 2020

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG03C1/29
  • WIPO fieldOptics
  • WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

This invention comprises a silver halide photographic material comprising at least one silver halide emulsion comprising silver halide grains having associated therewith at least two dyes:(a) a first dye that has at least one anionic substituent and that is capable of spectrally sensitizing a silver halide emulsion; and(b) a second dye that absorbs light at an equal or shorter wavelength than the first dye and that has at least one cationic substituent and that is highly fluorescent.

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