Xerox Corporation

Lawrence E Kowalczyk

Monroe J Hordon

Barry A Lees

Paul F Zukoski

Santokh Singh Badesha

Steven M Sterling

Roger W LaForce

Alan B Mistrater

Frederick A Elder

Fred A Elder

Disclosed is a process which comprises providing an alloy of selenium, preparing powdered particles of the alloy with an average particle diameter of less than 300 microns, placing the powdered particles into a container and tumbling the container, and subsequently removing the powdered particles from the container and compressing the powdered particles into pellets.

Powder treatment process to control alloy fractionation

Disclosed is an alloying process which comprises, in the order stated (1) heating in a reaction vessel a mixture of selenium and tellurium from ambient temperature to form about 270.degree. C. to about 330.degree. C. while maintaining the mixture in a quiescent state; (2) maintaining the mixture at from about 270.degree. C. to about 330.degree. C. until the entire mixture has reached substantial equilibrium with respect to temperature while maintaining the mixture in a quiescent state; (3) subsequently heating the mixture from the range of from about 270.degree. C. to about 330.degree. C. to the range of from about 500.degree. C. to about 580.degree. C. while maintaining the mixture in a quiescent state; (4) maintaining the mixture at from about 500.degree. C. to about 580.degree. C. until the entire mixture has reached substantial equilibrium with respect to temperature while maintaining the mixture in a quiescent state; (5) thereafter maintaining the mixture at from about 500.degree. C. to about 580.degree. C. for from about 0.75 hour to about 1.5 hours while vigorously agitating the mixture; (6) subsequent to agitation, reducing the temperature of the mixture from the range of from about 500.degree. C. to about 580.degree. C. to the range of from about 425.degree. C. to about 450.degree. C. while maintaining the mixture in a quiescent state; (7) subsequently maintaining the temperature of the mixture at from about 425.degree. C. to about 450.degree. C. for from about 4 hours to about 7 hours while maintaining the mixture in a quiescent state; (8) reducing the temperature of the mixture from the range of from about 425.degree. C. to about 450.degree. C. to the range of from about 290.degree. C. to about 350.degree. C. while maintaining the mixture in a quiescent state; and (9) removing the mixture from the reaction vessel. Also disclosed is a process for preparing an imaging member which comprises preparing a selenium-tellurium alloy by the above process and vacuum evaporating the alloy onto a substrate.

Alloying and coating process

Disclosed is a process for treating particles of selenium alloy to reduce fractionation when the particles are subsequently vacuum evaporated onto a substrate which comprises (1) heating particles of an alloy of selenium and an alloying component selected from the group are exposed to oxygen; (2) exposing the particles to water vapor; and (3) subjecting the particles previously exposed to oxygen and water vapor to a vacuum. Also disclosed is a process which comprises (1) providing particles of an alloy of selenium and an alloying component selected from the group consisting of tellurium, arsenic, and mixtures thereof; (2) forming selenium oxide on the surfaces of the particles; (3) converting the selenium oxide on the particle surfaces to selenious acid; and (4) removing the selenious acid from the particle surfaces.

Process for controlling alloy fractionation

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.

Processes for preparing chalcogenide alloys

A process for preparing an electrophotographic imaging member comprising providing large particles of an alloy comprising selenium, tellurium and arsenic, the large particles having an average particle size of at least about 300 micrometers and an average weight of less than about 1000 mg, mechanically abrading the surfaces of the large particles while maintaining the substantial surface integrety of the large particles to form between about 3 percent by weight to about 20 percent by weight dust particles based on the total weight of the alloy prior to mechanical abrasion.

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Penfield, NY, United States of America

Lawrence E Kowalczyk