Patent ID: 7002173

Claim:
An image recording medium for recording image information by storing electric charges which are generated in response to exposure to an electromagnetic wave carrying the image information, comprising: an electrode which is transparent to said electromagnetic wave; a recording-side photoconductive layer which contains a-Se as a main component, and generates electric charges when the recording-side photoconductive layer is exposed to said electromagnetic wave; and a suppression layer which is arranged between said electrode and said recording-side photoconductive layer, and suppresses interfacial crystallization in the recording-side photoconductive layer; wherein said suppression layer is a film made of an organic material which behaves as an insulator against electric charges having an opposite polarity to electric charges which move from the recording-side photoconductive layer to the electrode when the image information is recorded, and as a conductor of charges having an identical polarity to the electric charges which move from the recording-side photoconductive layer to the electrode when the image information is recorded.