ABSTRACT
Contemporary commercial imaging systems comprise a large family of functional films, including black-and-white and color negative, positive and instant AgXbased photographic films and papers, diagnostic x-ray films, microfilms, and printing films. They are involved in various kinds of imaging technology with wide applications. Material about 10-20 m in thickness may be composed of 4-18 photosensitive layers, semilayers, and supplementary interlayers of several microns in thickness, where up to 100 various functional components such as crystals of AgX emulsions, dispersions of color couplers, colloidal Ag particles of filter layers, latexes, and so forth are distributed in a polymer matrix. Structure, texture, and morphology of individual microcomponents and numerous dopants, including special-purpose ones such as chemical and spectral sensitizers, hardeners, plasticisers, stabilizers, antihalation dyes, and antistatic agents, are introduced in order to provide specified sensitometric, structure-sharpness, and color parameters.
