A half-cell for measuring a pH value of a measuring medium is disclosed including a tube-shaped carrier element and a pH-sensitive glass membrane connected to an end section of the carrier element. At least the end section of the carrier element includes a zirconia-containing and/or alumina-containing ceramic. A method for manufacturing a half-cell for pH value measurement and a potentiometric sensor are further disclosed.

The disclosure relates to a bond produced with an at least partially crystallized glass, such as a metal-to-glass bond, in particular a metal-to-glass bond in a feed-through element or connecting element, and to a method for producing such a bond, in particular in a feed-through element or connecting element. The at least partially crystallized glass includes at least one crystal phase and pores which are distributed in the at least partially crystallized glass in a structured manner.

A multilayer ceramic substrate that includes a surface layer portion positioned on an internal layer portion, and a surface layer electrode on a surface of the surface layer portion. The surface layer portion includes a first layer next to the internal layer portion, and the internal layer portion includes a second layer next to the first layer. The thermal expansion coefficient of the first layer is lower than the thermal expansion coefficient of the second layer. The first layer and the second layer each contain glass containing 40 weight % to 65 weight % of MO, where MO is at least one selected from CaO, MgO, SrO, and/or BaO); 35 weight % to 60 weight % of alumina, and 1 weight % to 10 weight % of at least one metal oxide selected from CuO and/or Ag.sub.2O.

Materials that seamlessly transition from opaque to transparent or translucent, such as advanced geopolymer-based ceramics to glass structures, which can be directly and seamlessly bonded without the use of an intermediate adhesive or use of a frame are disclosed. That is, a GP-based ceramic to glass structure can be bonded directly and seamlessly and without any mechanical joints, connective tissue or adhesives such as caulking or epoxy. Such ceramic to glass materials can be prepared by sintering an engineered geopolymer with glass to form the geopolymer-based advanced ceramic-glass structure in which the interface is visually abruptly or in which the material is a graded composition with a controlled transition from one material to the other.

An improved method for embedding one or more sensors in SiC is provided. The method includes depositing a binder onto successive layers of a SiC powder feedstock to produce a dimensionally stable green body have a true-sized cavity. A sensor component is then press-fit into the true-sized cavity. Alternatively, the green body is printed around the sensor component. The assembly (the green body and the sensor component) is heated within a chemical vapor infiltration (CVI) chamber for debinding, and a precursor gas is introduced for densifying the SiC matrix material. During infiltration, the sensor component becomes bonded to the densified SiC matrix, the sensor component being selected to be thermodynamically compatible with CVI byproducts at elevated temperatures, including temperatures in excess of 1000? C.

Disclosed herein are sealed devices comprising at least one cavity containing at least one quantum dot or at least one laser diode are also disclosed herein. The sealed devices can comprise a glass substrate sealed to an inorganic substrate, optionally via a sealing layer, the seal extending around the at least one cavity. Display and optical devices comprising such sealed devices are also disclosed herein, as well as methods for making such sealed devices.

Sintered product having a chemical analysis such that, in mass percentages: SiO.sub.2 content is greater than 0.2% and less than 2%, and CaO content is greater than 0.1% and less than 1.5%, and MgO content is less than 0.3%, and alumina and other elements being the complement at 100%, the content of other elements being less than 1.5%, having a relative density greater than 90%, comprising, for more than 90% of its volume, a stack of ceramic platelets (10) laid flat, all of said platelets having an average thickness less than 3 m, more than 95% by number of said platelets each containing more than 95% by mass of alumina, having a width (l) greater than 81 mm.

Provided is a wavelength conversion member that can reduce strain under stress occurring at the interface between a substrate and a phosphor layer and is therefore less susceptible to breakage during use. The wavelength conversion member 1 comprises a substrate 10 and a phosphor layer 20 bonded on the substrate 10, the phosphor layer 20 including inorganic phosphor powder 22 dispersed in a glass matrix 21. In a temperature range of 30? C. to a setting point of the phosphor layer 20, a relation ?10?10.sup.?7?(?.sub.1??.sub.2)?10?10.sup.?7 (/? C.) is satisfied where ?.sub.1 represents a coefficient of thermal expansion of the substrate 10 and ?.sub.2 represents a coefficient of thermal expansion of the phosphor layer 20. The setting point is defined by Tf?(Tf?Tg)/3 (where Tg represents a glass transition point and Tf represents a deformation point).

The invention relates to substrate ceramic laminates. In particular, the invention relates to substrate ceramic laminates in which the ceramic layer is a functional layer.

The present invention relates to a method for the automated production of a workpiece having at least one diaphragm, including a workpiece for an electrochemical sensor, including providing a workpiece that has a wall with at least one continuous opening through the wall, wherein a diaphragm body is affixed in the at least one opening, such that the diaphragm body completely fills a cross-section of the opening, and processing the diaphragm body by means of a laser.