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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 16, 1976
Filed:
Jul. 17, 1974
Simpei Tutihasi, Pittsford, NY (US);
Kyler F Nelson, Pittsford, NY (US);
Xerox Corporation, Stamford, CT (US);
Abstract
Increased sensitization of liquid crystalline devices utilizing current flow to provide a change in optical characteristics is provided by sandwiching a photoconductive layer between an insulating layer and a liquid crystalline layer wherein all three layers are placed between two electrodes. The sandwich device is utilized in an imaging method wherein an electrical potential is applied across said device, a bias or sensitizing light is utilized to bring the device up to the threshold for gain photocurrent and then removed, and wherein a subsequent light is utilized to gate or initiate gain photocurrent. Alternatively, the biasing light may be in imagewise configuration which forms a latent image in which case the subsequent light can be a uniform exposure which gates the gain photocurrent, thereby developing the latent image.