Abstract: A feed-through, for example a battery feed-through for a lithium-ion battery or a lithium ion accumulator, has at least one base body which has at least one opening through which at least one conductor, for example a pin-shaped conductor, embedded in a glass material is guided. The base body contains a low melting material, for example a light metal, such as aluminum, magnesium, AlSiC, an aluminum alloy, a magnesium alloy, titanium, titanium alloy or steel, in particular special steel, stainless steel or tool steel. The glass material consists of the following in mole percent: 35-50% P2O5, for example 39-48%; 0-14% Al2O3, for example 2-12%; 2-10% B2O3, for example 4-8%; 0-30% Na2O, for example 0-20%; 0-20% M2O, for example 12-20%, wherein M is K, Cs or Rb; 0-10% PbO, for example 0-9%; 0-45% Li2O, for example 0-40% or 17-40%; 0-20% BaO, for example 5-20%; 0-10% Bi2O3, for example 1-5% or 2-5%.

Abstract: A feed-through has a base body, for example in the form of a disk-shaped metal part. The base body includes at least one opening through which at least one conductor, for example an essentially pin-shaped conductor, embedded in a glass or glass ceramic material, is guided. The base body includes a material having a low melting point, such as a light metal, and the glass or glass ceramic material is selected in such a manner that the melting temperature thereof is lower than the melting temperature of the material of the base body.

Abstract: A lightweight composite panel is provided that includes at least one mineral glass or glass-ceramic panel and at least one organic layer. The weight per unit area of the lightweight composite panel is in the range from 0.5 kg/m2 to 5.5 kg/m2, the ratio of the total thickness of the one or more mineral glass or glass-ceramic panels to the total thickness of all of the organic layers is from 1:0.01 to 1:1 and the total thickness of all of the organic layers is less than or equal to 350 ?m. The lightweight composite panel complies with the thermal safety requirements of the air travel authorities and its “Total Heat Release,” measured in accordance with JAR/FAR/CS 25, App. F, Part IV & AITM 2.0006, is less than 65 kW×min/m2 and its flame time after removal of the flame in the “Vertical Bunsen Burner Test”, measured in accordance with FAR/JAR/CS 25, App. F, Part 1 & AITM 2.0002A, is less than 15 s.

Abstract: A lightweight composite pane is provided that includes a mineral glass or glass-ceramic pane and an organic layer. The weight per unit area of the lightweight composite pane is in the range from 0.5 kg/m2 to 5.5 kg/m2, the ratio of the thickness of the mineral glass pane to the thickness of the organic layer is 1:0.01 to 1:1, and the thickness of the organic layer is less than or equal to 500 ?m. The lightweight composite pane meets the thermal safety requirements of aerospace authorities and has a “Total Heat Release,” measured in compliance with JAR/FAR/CS 25, App. F, Part IV & AITM 2.0006, of less than 65 kW×min/m2 and a flame time, after removal of the flame in the “Vertical Bunsen Burner Test”, measured in compliance with FAR/JAR/CS 25, App. F, Part 1 & AITM 2.0002A, is less than 15 seconds.

Abstract: An optical converter for producing colored or white light from blue excitation light is provided. The converter has good scattering properties to be able to produce nearly white light from the scattered blue light components and the scattered, converted yellow light components. The optical converter includes material including one or more of a YAG ceramic, a LuAG ceramic, and a magnesium-aluminum ceramic exhibiting strong scattering.

Abstract: A feed-through, in particular a feed-through which passes through part of a housing, in particular a battery housing, for example made of metal, in particular light metal, for example aluminum, an aluminum alloy, AlSiC, magnesium, an magnesium alloy, titanium, a titanium alloy, steel, stainless steel or high-grade steel. The housing part has at least one opening through which at least one conductor, in particular an essentially pin-shaped conductor, embedded in a glass or glass ceramic material, is guided. The base body is, for example, an essentially annular-shaped base body.

Abstract: A feed-through, for example a battery feed-through for a lithium-ion battery or a lithium ion accumulator, has at least one base body which has at least one opening through which at least one conductor, for example a pin-shaped conductor, embedded in a glass material is guided. The base body contains a low melting material, for example a light metal, such as aluminum, magnesium, AlSiC, an aluminum alloy, a magnesium alloy, titanium, titanium alloy or steel, in particular special steel, stainless steel or tool steel. The glass material consists of the following in mole percent: 35-50% P2O5, for example 39-48%; 0-14% Al2O3, for example 2-12%; 2-10% B2O3, for example 4-8%; 0-30% Na2O, for example 0-20%; 0-20% Li2O, for example 12-20%, wherein M is K, Cs or Rb; 0-10% PbO, for example 0-9%; 0-45% Li2O, for example 0-40% or 17-40%; 0-20% BaO, for example 5-20%; 0-10% Bi2O3, for example 1-5% or 2-5%.

Abstract: A feed-through component for a conductor feed-through which passes through a part of a housing, for example a battery housing, is embedded in a glass or glass ceramic material and has at least one conductor, for example an essentially pin-shaped conductor, and a head part. The surface, in particular the cross-sectional surface, of the head part is greater than the surface, in particular the cross-sectional surface, of the conductor, for example of the essentially pin-shaped conductor. The head part is embodied such that is can be joined to an electrode-connecting component, for example an electrode-connecting part, which may be made of copper, a copper alloy CuSiC, an aluminum alloy AlSiC or aluminum, with a mechanically stable and non-detachable connection.

Abstract: A feed-through has a base body, for example in the form of a disk-shaped metal part. The base body includes at least one opening through which at least one conductor, for example an essentially pin-shaped conductor, embedded in a glass or glass ceramic material, is guided. The base body includes a material having a low melting point, such as a light metal, and the glass or glass ceramic material is selected in such a manner that the melting temperature thereof is lower than the melting temperature of the material of the base body.

Abstract: A feed-through, in particular a feed-through which passes through a housing component of a housing, for example a battery housing, such as a battery cell housing. The housing component includes at least one opening through which at least one conductor, for example an essentially pin-shaped conductor, is guided. The pin-shaped conductor is at least partially surrounded by an insulator, for example made of a glass or a glass ceramic material. The at least one conductor connection, for example of the essentially pin-shaped conductor and/or of the housing component with the insulator, which is a glass or a glass ceramic material, is formed, the connection being an ultrasonic welding.

Abstract: In order to provide a decorative coating (9) which exhibits improved temperature resistance and strength on glass and glass-ceramic and which also has no strength-reducing effect on the substrate (3), or at least no longer has any substantially strength-reducing effect on the substrate, the invention envisions a process for producing glass or glass-ceramic articles having a decorative layer in which at least one decorative pigment (13) is mixed with a sol-gel binder (11), and the pigment mixed with the sol-gel binder is cured on the glass or glass-ceramic substrate of the article by annealing, to form a decorative layer having a porous ceramiclike structure.

Abstract: An insulating glass element for the at least partial delimitation of a combustion chamber, having at least two viewing panes, which have at least some areas a transparent glass or ceramic-glass material and are arranged spaced apart from each other while leaving an air chamber, and wherein a viewing area is created at least in parts of the air chamber. The two viewing panes are connected with each other by a temperature-resistant adhesive, and the adhesive encloses a viewing area of the viewing panes all around, or a spacing element, which runs around them at least partially, is connected with the two viewing panes in a material-to-material manner, preferably by a glued connection.

Abstract: An insulating glass element for the at least partial delimitation of a combustion chamber, having at least two viewing panes, which have at least some areas a transparent glass or ceramic-glass material and are arranged spaced apart from each other while leaving an air chamber, and wherein a viewing area is created at least in parts of the air chamber. The two viewing panes are connected with each other by a temperature-resistant adhesive, and the adhesive encloses a viewing area of the viewing panes all around, or a spacing element, which runs around them at least partially, is connected with the two viewing panes in a material-to-material manner, preferably by a glued connection.

Abstract: In order to provide a decorative coating (9) which exhibits improved temperature resistance and strength on glass and glass-ceramic and which also has no strength-reducing effect on the substrate (3), or at least no longer has any substantially strength-reducing effect on the substrate, the invention envisions a process for producing glass or glass-ceramic articles having a decorative layer in which at least one decorative pigment (13) is mixed with a sol-gel binder (11), and the pigment mixed with the sol-gel binder is cured on the glass or glass-ceramic substrate of the article by annealing, to form a decorative layer having a porous ceramiclike structure.

Abstract: A lithium-aluminosilicate glass ceramic is transformed by a suitable heat treatment into a glass ceramic comprising at least 80 vol.-% of keatite mixed crystals. This may be utilized for the preparation of optical or mechanical high-precision parts having a high temperature resistance, a good stability and compatibility with components consisting of metals having a small coefficient of thermal expansion based on nickel and iron, such as Invar®.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a new class of compound useful as liquid for immersion lithography, said liquid comprising molecules so that said liquid is substantially transparent at a wavelength used for said liquid immersion lithography, wherein a degree of polarization of light, which is incident on a sample of said liquid in a forward direction and which is scattered in a direction perpendicular to said forward direction within a plane of scattering defined by said forward direction and said direction perpendicular to said forward direction, is larger than 0.9. Suited liquids are, for example, such comprising molecules transparent to UV radiation, wherein said molecules are high-symmetric molecules. Suited compounds are defined by A(R)4 wherein A is defined to be a 4-valent element and R is selected from —(C)n— and —(Si)n—, with n=1 to 10, wherein the remaining valences of the carbon or silica are saturated by one (or more) selected from hydrogen and a halogen.

Abstract: A composite structure (10) is defined, consisting of components made of a zero-expansion material, in particular of a glass ceramic such as Zerodur®, which are joined together by at least one adhesive layer (17, 19, 26, 28, 30, 32). The composite structure (10) has the advantageous properties associated with zero-expansion materials, in particular a very low coefficient of thermal expansion, strength up to 150° C. and minimal outgassing.

Abstract: A process for forming glass or glass ceramics is disclosed, wherein a glass ceramics form (12) is made from a starting glass by molding, which is transformed by a heat treatment into a keatite glass ceramic comprising predominantly keatite mixed crystals. With such a keatite glass ceramics form (12) formed bodies can be prepared from blank parts by sagging under gravity force at a temperature above the glass transition temperature of the blank part (14) (FIG. 1).

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for ceramizing starting glass of glass-ceramics into glass-ceramics, comprising at least the following steps: 1.1 the starting glass is heated from an initial temperature T1 to a temperature T2 which is disposed above the glass transformation temperature TG at which crystallization nuclei are precipitated; 1.2 the glass is held at the temperature T2 for a period t2 for the precipitation of crystallization nuclei; 1.3 the glass is further heated to a temperature T3 at which a crystal phase grows on the nuclei formed following step 1.1 and 1.2; 1.4 the glass is held for period t3 at a temperature T3 or heated during this period to a higher temperature T4 until the predetermined properties of the glass-ceramics have been reached; 1.5 the control of the temperature curve is performed with the help of a control loop comprising at least one temperature sensor for sensing the temperature and a heating unit as an actuator. The invention is characterized in that 1.

Abstract: A lithium-aluminosilicate glass ceramic is transformed by a suitable heat treatment into a glass ceramic comprising at least 80 vol.-% of keatite mixed crystals. This may be utilized for the preparation of optical or mechanical high-precision parts having a high temperature resistance, a good stability and compatibility with components consisting of metals having a small coefficient of thermal expansion based on nickel and iron, such as Invar®.