ABSTRACT
I. INTRODUCTION The fundamental image forming step in xerography is the creation of an electro static latent image. Latent image formation involves the photoinduced discharge of a photoreceptor by the absorption of an imagewise exposure. During the past three decades, there have been many potential discharge models described in the literature. A partial list includes Jaenicke and Lorenz (1961), Li and Regensburger (1963), Batra et al. (1970,1971), Batra and Seki (1970), Seki (1970,1972), Wintle (1970, 1971, 1972, 1990), Seki and Batra (1971), Seki et al. (1971), Chen (1972, 1978), Chen et al. (1972, 1973), Kanazawa and Batra (1972), Kanazawa et al. (1972), Chen and Kao (1973), Kao and Chen (1973), Fox (1974a, 1974b), Perlman and Sonnonstine (1975), Sonnonstine and Perlman (1975), Perlman et al. (1976), Baum et al. (1977), Kerr and Rokos (1977), Mey et al. (1979), Toomer and Lewis (1980), Buettner and Mey (1982), von Berlepsch (1985), Young (1986, 1993). For reviews, see Mort and Chen (1975), Gaidelis and Montrimas (1985), and Melnyk and Pai (1992).
