IMAGE FORMING METHOD

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an image forming method for forming an image with ghost suppresed. SOLUTION: An electrophotographic photosensitive body for use in the image forming method is formed by sequentially stacking a lower photoconductive layer and an upper photoconductive layer formed of a-Si and a surface layer formed of a-SiC in this order on a substrate. The lower photoconductive layer further contains boron atoms, and the upper photoconductive layer contains no boron atoms or contains boron atoms but is smaller in atom density of a boron atom than the lower photoconductive layer, and the total of an atom density of silicon atom and an atom density of a carbon atom in the surface layer is not less than 6.60×1022atoms/cm3, and the light quantity A [μJ/cm2] of pre-exposure light reaching the lower photoconductive layer out of the quantity of pre-exposure light radiated to the electrophotographic photosensitive body satisfies -12.0≤Ln(A)≤-4.5. COPYRIGHT: (C)2011,JPO&INPIT