Abstract: A heating device includes a housing closed with a cover element and enclosing a combustion chamber, wherein an opening for receiving a burner device pointing into the combustion chamber is provided on the cover element, wherein the opening is delimited by a first cylindrical sheet section of the cover element (1), wherein the first sheet section is connected to a second sheet section of the cover element so as to face away from the combustion chamber. The second sheet section extends radially outwards as a contact flange for the burner device.

Abstract: Disclosed is an optoelectromechanical switch that includes: an optical feedline disposed on an isolation substrate that receives resonator light that is subject to optical communication to a resonator when a cavity length of the resonator supports an electromagnetic mode at the wavelength of the resonator light; a resonator including: a low refractive index optical layer and receives substrate electrical counter potential; a non-conductive spacer; the electrically conductive membrane and that receives a membrane electrical potential and deflects toward and away from the electrically conductive high-index optical waveguide based on a difference in potential between the membrane electrical potential and the substrate electrical counter potential; the cavity length that is variable and under electromechanical control.

Abstract: Disclosed is a plasmonic device (10), comprising: a substrate (11); and a dielectric layer (13) arranged between a base metal layer (12) and a structured metal layer (14) which form with respect to the substrate (11) a vertical stack of layers, wherein the structured metal layer (14) includes arranged in a horizontal direction an input structure (141) for enabling an input section (21), a waveguide structure (142) for enabling a plasmonic waveguide (22), and an output structure (143) for enabling an output section (23), wherein the input section (21) is configured to receive an optical input signal (31) and transmit input power (41) to the plasmonic waveguide (22), wherein the plasmonic waveguide (22) is configured to receive input power (41) from the input section (21) and transmit output power (43) to the output section (23), and wherein the output section (23) is configured to receive output power (43) from the plasmonic waveguide (22) and transmit an optical output signal (33).

Abstract: Disclosed is an optoelectromechanical switch that includes: an optical feedline disposed on an isolation substrate that receives resonator light that is subject to optical communication to a resonator when a cavity length of the resonator supports an electromagnetic mode at the wavelength of the resonator light; a resonator including: a low refractive index optical layer and receives substrate electrical counter potential; a non-conductive spacer; the electrically conductive membrane and that receives a membrane electrical potential and deflects toward and away from the electrically conductive high-index optical waveguide based on a difference in potential between the membrane electrical potential and the substrate electrical counter potential; the cavity length that is variable and under electromechanical control.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an electronic trading system and a method for automatically performing an execution of an order from a market participant against a quote of a market maker. According to the present invention, an order from a market participant is executed against the matching quote of a market maker only, if a corresponding hedge transaction for mitigating the market maker's execution risk has been generated and successfully executed. Thereby the initial order and the hedge transaction preferably relate to different markets, such that the invention provides a conditional link between trades performed in these markets.

Abstract: The present intention relates to techniques for handling trades, and in particular to a data processing system for handling a trade between execution and settlement of the trade, a trade handling system for handling a trade executed at a trading location, and a data processing system and method for processing trade execution data relating to an executed trade. According to one aspect, the invention provides a data processing system for handling a trade between execution and settlement of the trade, comprising a data input unit for receiving trade execution data relating to an executed trade; a data processing unit adapted to generate settlement instructions for the executed trade based on the trade execution data; and a data output unit for outputting the generated settlement instructions.