Abstract: A high-voltage device for receiving a high-voltage cable having a conductor designed to conduct an electrical current and a cable insulation surrounding the conductor, includes an insulation and a waveguide. The insulation includes an at least partly transparent or translucent field control unit from a siloxane polymer which is designed to at least partly surround the cable insulation of the high-voltage cable, the siloxane polymer including, in at least one portion of the field control unit, covalently bonded fluorophores and/or dielectric pigments. The waveguide is arranged such that a light signal caused by a partial discharge in the field control unit can be coupled from the field control unit into the waveguide.

Abstract: A high-voltage device for receiving a high-voltage cable having a conductor designed to conduct an electrical current and a cable insulation surrounding the conductor, includes an insulation and a waveguide. The insulation includes an at least partly transparent or translucent field control unit from a siloxane polymer which is designed to at least partly surround the cable insulation of the high-voltage cable, the siloxane polymer including, in at least one portion of the field control unit, covalently bonded fluorophores and/or dielectric pigments. The waveguide is arranged such that a light signal caused by a partial discharge in the field control unit can be coupled from the field control unit into the waveguide.

Abstract: A reinforcement element, comprises at least one sensor fiber adapted for strain measurements based on stimulated Brillouin scattering within said sensor fiber.

Abstract: A reinforcement element, comprises at least one sensor fiber adapted for strain measurements based on stimulated Brillouin scattering within said sensor fiber.

Abstract: A process for producing oxygen-free or low-oxygen shaped bodies of silicon carbide, particularly SiC fibers, by using chemically reactive polysilanes and/or polycarbosilanes as precursors. In accordance with the invention green fibers are stabilized preferably in the presence of reactive gases.

Abstract: A binder-containing granulated silicon carbide products for the manufacture of highly dense silicon carbide ceramic products and the SiC ceramic products which can be made from the novel granulated silicon carbide products, especially highly dense SiC high-performance pressurelessly sintered ceramics.

Abstract: Halogenated polycarbosilanes with uniform or mixed halogenation prepared from aryl-substituted, particularly phenyl-substituted polycarbosilanes by reaction with halogenating reagents under polar or ionic reaction conditions, optionally in the presence of a Lewis acid catalyst. The halogen atom introduced can optionally subsequently be replaced by another halogen atom through a transhalogenation reaction.

Abstract: Polycarbosilanes in which some of the silicon atoms have been replaced by a hetero element selected from boron, titanium, zirconium, hafnium, etc. The hetero elements are incorporated into the polycarbosilane skeleton in such a way that, like the silicon atoms, they are bonded to the other parts of the polycarbosilanes via hydrocarbon bridges, and the polycarbosilanes are free of hetero element-oxygen-silicon bonds.

Abstract: Polycarbosilanes having Si units which are linked by phenyl-substituted methylene bridges or by partially or completely fluorinated hydrocarbon bridges. These polycarbosilanes are obtained by a Grignard polycondensation reaction. If phenyl substituents are present on the silicon atoms of the polycarbosilanes, they may also optionally be exchanged for halogen atoms in additional halogenating reactions, so that polycarbosilanes can be prepared which are both fluorinated on the hydrocarbon bridges and halogenated (particularly fluorinated) on the silicon atoms.

Abstract: Halogenated polycarbosilanes with uniform or mixed halogenation prepared from aryl-substituted, particularly phenyl-substituted polycarbosilanes by reaction with halogenating reagents under polar or ionic reaction conditions, optionally in the presence of a Lewis acid catalyst. The halogen atom introduced can optionally subsequently be replaced by another halogen atom through a transhalogenation reaction.

Abstract: A process for preparing polycarbosilanes by co-condensation of dihalosilanes R.sup.1 R.sup.2 SiX.sub.2 and saturated dihalohydrocarbons Y-A-Y in the presence of an alkali metal, wherein the groups R.sup.1, R.sup.2, X, Y and A have the meanings given in the claims, and also new polycarbosilanes are described.