Abstract: A body made of a ceramic material stabilized by a stabilizing agent, characterized in that the body comprises a surface region extending from the surface of the body to a predetermined depth, the stabilizing agent being enriched in said surface region.

Abstract: A body made of a ceramic material stabilized by a stabilizing agent and a process for preparing the body. The body includes a surface region extending from the surface of the body to a predetermined depth. The stabilizing agent is enriched in the surface region. The proportion of the stabilizing agent in the surface region continuously increases from the predetermined depth to the surface. The process includes applying the stabilizing agent to the surface of a basic body made of a ceramic material and heating the basic body with the stabilizing agent applied thereon at a temperature such that at least a portion of the stabilizing agent diffuses into the ceramic material.

Abstract: The invention relates to a layered construction with a protective layer and a photoexposed photopolymer layer, the protective layer being obtainable by reaction of a mixture comprising or consisting of at least one radiation-curing resin I), a polyfunctional radiation-curing resin II) and a photoinitiator system III), the radiation-curing resin I) comprising ?5 wt. % of compounds having a weight-average molecular weight <500 and ?75 wt. % of compounds having a weight-average molecular weight >1000, the polyfunctional radiation-curing resin II) comprising or consisting of at least one acrylate having at least two radiation-curing groups, and the mixture comprising at least 55 wt. % of the radiation-curing resin I) and not more than 35 wt. % of the polyfunctional radiation-curing resin II). The invention further relates to a method for producing a layered construction of this kind, and also to its use.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing a security element having a holographic layer in which a hologram is arranged, characterized by at least the following steps: a) providing the holographic layer; b) exposing the holographic layer at least in sections via a master hologram to produce a hologram copy in the holographic layer; e) printing the holographic layer at least in sections with an ink, forming a printed feature, wherein the ink comprises the melt of a dye or a colorless component or a solvent and a dye dissolved therein or a colorless component dissolved therein; d) fixing the exposed holographic layer to produce the hologram in the holographic layer, wherein the printed feature and the hologram are arranged in the holographic layer such that the printed feature and the hologram overlap at least in sections. The invention further relates to a security feature which is produced or can be produced by said method.

Abstract: This invention relates to a holographic medium comprising a protective layer and a photopolymer film which is bonded to the protective layer and contains polyurethane matrix polymers, acrylate writing monomers and photoinitiators, wherein the protective layer is impermeable to the constituents of the photopolymer film, is optically clear and is transparent to electromagnetic radiation having a wavelength in the range of from 350 to 800 nm. The invention further provides the use of a holographic medium according to the invention in the production of holograms, and a process for the production of a holographic medium according to the invention.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for selecting compounds which can be used as additives in photopolymer formulations for producing light holographic media, and to photopolymer formulations which contain at least one softener which are selected according to the claimed method. The invention also relates to the use of photopolymer formulations for producing holographic media.

Abstract: The invention relates to a photopolymer formulation comprising a polyol component, a polyisocyanate component, a writing monomer, and a photoinitiator, containing a coinitiator and a dye having the formula F An, where F stands for a cationic dye and An? stands for an anion, wherein the dye having the formula F An comprises a water absorption of =5%. The invention further relates to a holographic medium, in particular in the form of a film, containing a photopolymer formulation according to the invention, to the use of such a medium for recording holograms, and to a special dye that can be used in the photopolymer formulation according to the invention.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method of selecting photoinitiator systems comprising at least one sensitizer and at least one coinitiator, for photopolymer formulations for producing holographic media.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a security document and/or document of value with a hologram in a visually changeable window as a novel security element, and also to a method for producing the same.

Abstract: The invention relates to polycarbonate-based or copolycarbonate-based security documents and/or documents of value which contain at least one hologram integrated in the card body, and to a method for producing such security documents and/or documents of value.

Abstract: The invention relates to a photopolymer formulation, comprising at least one polyol component, a polyisocyanate component, a write monomer, a photoinitiator, and a catalyst, wherein the photopolymer formulation has an activation temperature >8300 K. The invention further relates to a method for producing a holographic medium, to a holographic medium that can be obtained according to the method according to the invention, and to the use of a holographic medium according to the invention for producing a hologram.

Abstract: The invention relates to a planar light distribution module for a display, comprising a light guide plate through which light coupled in via at least one side face can propagate by means of total reflection, and at least one out-coupling device (2), which is applied on one or both of the main faces of the light guide plate (1), is in optical contact therewith and has a multiplicity of holographic optical elements (13) formed therein, which are configured in such a way that they can couple light out of the light guide plate (1), the light distribution module being characterized in that the holographic optical elements (13), independently of one another, have an extent of at least 300 ?m in at least one spatial axis extending parallel to the surface of the out-coupling device (2). The invention furthermore relates to an optical display, in particular an electronic display.

Abstract: The invention relates to a planar light distribution module for a display, comprising a light guide plate through which light coupled in via at least one side face can propagate by means of total reflection, and at least one planar out-coupling device (2), which is applied on one or both of the main faces of the light guide plate (1), is in optical contact therewith and has a multiplicity of holographic optical elements (13) formed therein, which are configured in such a way that they can couple light out of the light guide plate (1), the light distribution module being characterized in that the holographic optical elements (13) are arranged in the out-coupling device (2) without translational symmetry. The invention furthermore relates to an optical display, in particular an electronic display, which contains a light distribution module according to the invention.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a laminate structure comprising a protective layer and an exposed photopolymer layer, the laminate structure being obtainable by reacting at least one radiation-curing resin I), an isocyanate-functional resin II) and a photoinitiator system III), and the radiation-curing resin I) containing ?5% by weight of compounds having a weight-average molecular weight of <500 and ?75% by weight of compounds having a weight-average molecular weight of >1000, the isocyanate-functional resin II) containing ?5% by weight of compounds having a weight-average molecular weight of <500, and the protective layer containing the radiation-curing resin I) at least to an extent of 80% by weight and the isocyanate-functional resin II) at most to an extent of 15% by weight. The invention further provides a process for producing the inventive laminate structure.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method for producing a beam shaping holographic optical element, which is configured to generate diffracted beams configured to reconstruct an image of a diffusor irrespectively of the point of impact of a pencil of light on the beam shaping holographic optical element, comprising providing a recording element, providing a master element comprising a particular pattern, forming a recording stack comprising the recording element and the master element such that the master element is arranged to the recording element in a closed-copy distance, irradiating at least a part of the recording stack with a reconstruction beam, irradiating at least a part of the recording stack with a reference beam, wherein at least one of the reconstruction beam or reference beam penetrates the master element to record the pattern of the master element onto the recording element.

Abstract: The invention relates to an illumination device for illuminating at least one light modulator system of a liquid crystal display, the device comprising at least one waveguide substrate for guiding at least one targeted light beam that can be coupled into the waveguide substrate. The waveguide substrate is at least in optical contact with at least one holographic optical decoupling substrate comprising a plurality of decoupling regions and a decoupling region is at least designed to decouple part of the targeted light beam in the form of a plurality of sub-beams in the direction of the light modulator system. At least one diffuser module is provided, said diffuser module being designed in such a way that at least the outermost sub-beams of two neighbouring decoupling regions are at least adjacent to one another before exiting the diffuser module.

Abstract: The invention relates to compounds, of formula (I) in which X is CH3 or hydrogen, Z is a linear or branched C2 to C4 alkyl radical, R is a linear or branched, optionally heteroatom-substituted aliphatic, aromatic or araliphatic radical, Y in each occurrence is independently hydrogen, methyl, ethyl, propyl, n-butyl, tert-butyl, chlorine, bromine, iodine, methylthio, phenyl or phenylthio, n is from 0 to 4 and m is from 0 to 5. The invention further relates to the use of such a compound as writing monomer in a photopolymer formulation. In addition, a photopolymer formulation comprising as least a polyisocyanate component, a polyol component, a photoinitiator and a compound of formula (I) as writing monomer, and also the use of the photopolymer formulation for producing holographic media, are likewise subjects of the invention.

Abstract: The invention relates to a photopolymer formulation comprising matrix polymers, writing monomers, and photoinitiators, wherein the writing monomers comprise compounds of formula (I), where at least one of the radicals R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, R6 is a radical bonded to the aromatic ring via X of formula (II), where, in formula (II), A is a linear or branched hydrocarbon, optionally comprising oxygen or nitrogen, the remaining radicals R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, R6 are, independent of each other, hydrogen or an organic radical, and R7 is hydrogen or methyl. The invention further relates to the use of the photopolymer formulation for producing holographic media.

Abstract: The subject matter of the invention is a method for producing illuminated, holographic media comprising a photopolymer formulation having the adjustable mechanical modulus GUV. A further subject matter of the invention is an illuminated, holographic medium that can be obtained by means of the method according to the invention.

Abstract: The present invention relates to novel photopolymer formulation comprising a polyol component, a polyisocyanate component, a writing monomer and a photoinitiator comprising a dye of formula (I). The present invention further relates to a holographic medium which contains a photopolymer formulation of the present invention or is obtainable by using same, to the use of a photopolymer formulation of the present invention for producing holographic media and also to a process for producing a holographic medium by using a photopolymer formulation of the present invention.