Abstract: Known infrared radiators have a moulded body, which has a radiation surface that emits short-wave or medium-wave infrared radiation with a first peak emission wavelength. In order to provide, proceeding therefrom, an infrared radiator with an emissions spectrum which is well matched to absorption characteristics with a maximum around 2750 nm, and which furthermore can be operated with a high electrical power density, and with which the warming-up time in industrial applications, such as, for example, drying of inks, joining of plastics or bending of glass, can be shortened, according to the invention a radiation converter material is applied to at least a part of the radiation surface and, as a consequence of heating by the infrared radiation of the first peak emission wavelength, emits infrared radiation with a second peak emission wavelength which is of a longer wavelength than the first peak emission wavelength.

Abstract: A device for heating a target with IR radiation, a process for heat treating a target, a process for making a composite, a use of an IR source, a use of an array of IR sources and a use of the device. Also disclosed is a device for treating a target, comprising an IR source that emits IR radiation from an emitter surface having a first surface area; and a set of elongate bodies consisting of one or more elongate bodies, each elongate body having an inlet, collectively called the inlets, and each elongate body having an outlet, collectively called the outlets; wherein the emitted IR radiation is coupled into the set of elongate bodies via the inlets and decoupled from the elongate body via the outlets over an outlet surface having a second surface area; and wherein the first surface area is greater than the second surface area.

Abstract: A device for heating a target with IR radiation, a process for heat treating a target, a process for making a composite, a use of an IR source, a use of an array of IR sources and a use of the device. Also disclosed is a device for treating a target, comprising an IR source that emits IR radiation from an emitter surface having a first surface area; and a set of elongate bodies consisting of one or more elongate bodies, each elongate body having an inlet, collectively called the inlets, and each elongate body having an outlet, collectively called the outlets; wherein the emitted IR radiation is coupled into the set of elongate bodies via the inlets and decoupled from the elongate body via the outlets over an outlet surface having a second surface area; and wherein the first surface area is greater than the second surface area.

Abstract: Known infrared radiators have a support, a heating conductor's conductor path applied to the support, of an electrically conducting resistor material, as well as an electrical contacting of the heating conductor's conductor path. In order to specify an infrared radiator with a high radiation efficiency based on this, the heating conductor's conductor path of which is provided with a structurally simple and cost-efficient electrical contacting, it is proposed according to the invention for the support to include a composite material, which comprises an amorphous matrix component as well as an additional component in the form of a semiconductor material, and for the contacting to be applied to the support as contacting conductor path, wherein the cross section of the contacting conductor path is at least 3-times the cross section of the heating conductor's conductor path.

Abstract: A substrate support element for a support rack for thermal treatment of a substrate is provided. The substrate support element includes a support surface for the substrate. The substrate support element is a composite body that includes a first composite component and a second composite component, whereby the first composite component has a thermal conductivity in the range of 0.5 to 40 W/(m·K) and the second composite component has a thermal conductivity in the range of 70 to 450 W/(m·K).

Abstract: Infrared panel radiators are provided including a carrier with a heating surface, and a printed conductor made of an electrically conductive resistor material that generates heat when current flows through it. The printed conductor is applied to a printed conductor occupation surface of the carrier. The printed conductor includes a first printed conductor section for generation of a first power per unit area and a second printed conductor section for generation of a second power per unit area that differs from the first power per unit area. The carrier contains a composite material including an amorphous matrix component and an additional component in the form of a semiconductor material. The first printed conductor section and the second printed conductor section are circuited in series and differ from each other by their occupation density and/or by their conductor cross-section.

Abstract: An infrared panel radiator includes a substrate made of an electrically insulating material. A printed conductor is applied to a surface to the substrate. The printed conductor is made of an electrically conductive resistor material that generates heat when current flows through it. A process for producing the infrared panel radiator includes: (a) providing the substrate; and (b) applying the printed conductor to a surface of the substrate. To produce an infrared radiator that features homogeneous radiation emission at high radiation power per unit area, the substrate is manufactured from a composite material including an amorphous matrix component and an additional component in the form of a semiconductor material. The printed conductor is provided as a form part with a fixed geometric shape. The printed conductor is applied to the surface of the substrate such that the printed conductor and the substrate are permanently connected to each other.

Abstract: An apparatus for thermal treatment of a substrate is provided. The apparatus has a heating device and a carrier provided with a support surface for the substrate. The apparatus permits a high substrate throughput. At least part of the carrier contains a composite material containing an amorphous matrix component and an additional component containing a semiconductor material, and a conductor path that is part of the heating device and made of an electrically conducting resistance material that generates heat when current passes through it is applied to a surface of the composite material.

Abstract: An irradiation device for introducing infrared radiation into a vacuum processing chamber has an infrared emitter capped on one end and including an emitter casing tube in the form of a round glass tube, of which a closed end projects into the vacuum processing chamber. A vacuum feedthrough holds the emitter casing tube and leads it in a gas-tight manner through an opening of the vacuum processing chamber. A heating filament and a current return are arranged in the emitter casing tube, wherein the heating conductor has, in the section of the emitter casing tube surrounded by the vacuum feedthrough, a connection element that is led out from the emitter casing tube. The connection element of the heating conductor is guided through a tube section and the return conductor has, in the section of the emitter casing tube surrounded by the vacuum feedthrough, a means for compensating for thermal expansion.