High chloride emulsion doped with combination of metal complexes

Abstract

A radiation-sensitive emulsion comprised of high chloride silver halide grains having a central portion accounting for up to 99 percent of total silver and containing a first dopant of Formula (I): [ML6]n wherein n is zero, −1, −2, −3 or −4; M is a filled frontier orbital polyvalent metal ion, other than iridium, and L6 represents bridging ligands which can be independently selected, provided that at least four of the ligands are anionic ligands, and at least one of the ligands is a cyano ligand or a ligand more electronegative than a cyano ligand; wherein a second dopant comprising an iridium coordination complex having ligands each of which are more electropositive than a cyano ligand is located together with the first dopant in a common dopant band within the central portion of the silver halide grains. The combination of first and second dopants in a common dopant band provides greater reduction in reciprocity law failure than is achieved with such dopants in separate bands, and also provides improvements in speed and contrast properties.

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