Abstract: One aspect relates to a contacting arrangement for use in a housing of a medically implantable apparatus. Said contacting arrangement includes an electrical feedthrough device that includes at least one electrically insulating main feedthrough member and at least one electrical conducting element. The conducting element is designed to establish at least one electrically conducting connection between an interior of the housing and an exterior through the main feedthrough member. The conducting element is hermetically sealed with respect to the main feedthrough member. The at least one conducting element comprises at least one cermet. The contacting arrangement further includes an electrical filter structure which is arranged on a face of the feedthrough device. Furthermore, said filter structure is connected to the conducting element by means of at least one electrical surface connection.

Abstract: A laminated assembly having a first layer, a second layer, and at least one sintered insulating film for electrical insulation of the first layer from the second layer. The first layer is one of a first solid electrolyte layer that conducts oxygen ions and a first electrically conducting layer. The second layer is one of a second solid electrolyte layer that conducts oxygen ions and a second electrically conducting layer. The insulating film is formed on a substrate using a paste or a suspension produced from at least one of a ceramic powder and a glass powder. One of the first layer and the second layer serves at least partly as the substrate. The sintered insulting film has a thickness ≦10 &mgr;m, and the powder is a nanoscale powder with a BET specific surface >50 m2/g and a maximum particle size of 100 nm.

Abstract: A resistor composition comprising a pyrochlore-related oxide a glass frit and, anorthite as a finely-divided filler. The resistor composition exhibits high tolerance in respect to firing temperatures. Thick film resistors obtained therefrom by firing on, for example, aluminum oxide substrates, have relatively uniform resistance values, even with inconsistent firing conditions, and have high stability of resistance following laser trimming.

Abstract: Resistor composition to produce thick film resistors, preferably the resistor films in sensors for temperature measurement, includes glass frit and an oxide which is at least one of CaCu.sub.3 Ru.sub.4 O.sub.12 and LaCu.sub.3 Ru.sub.4 O.sub.12.

Abstract: Electrically conductive oxides of the pyrochlore family based on copper and/or silver, lead, bismuth, and ruthenium, characterized by the formula M.sub.x M'.sub.y (Pb,Bi).sub.2-x-y Ru.sub.2 O.sub.7-z, wherein M=copper and/or silver, M'=calcium, strontium, and/or barium, 0.ltoreq.x.ltoreq.0.6, 0.1.ltoreq.y.ltoreq.1.0, and 0.1.ltoreq.z.ltoreq.1.0.