Patent ID: 6280895
Filing Date: 2001-08-28
Classification: C23C,G03G

Abstract:
A light-receiving member comprising:a light-receiving layer comprising a non-single-crystalline material containing silicon atoms or germanium atoms; anda surface layer produced by the process which comprises forming on the light-receiving layer a layer of a non-single-crystalline material containing silicon atoms and at least one kind of carbon atoms, oxygen atoms or nitrogen atoms, and etching the entire surface of the layer with an etchant, wherein the formation and the etching are alternately repeated plural times to form a surface layer on a substrate in a reactor capable of reducing an internal pressure thereof, wherein the surface layer has incorporated therein an element of the etchant with a content of the incorporated etchant element varying in a thickness direction of the surface layer to provide a region having a larger content of the etchant element between regions having a small content of the etchant element.