Coy, Emerson (Date of defense: 2016-02-01)
Multiferroic materials, in which two or more ferroic ordering take place in the same phase, have driven major interest in the last few years, not only due to the possibility of exploring novel physical ...
Llovet Ximenes, Xavier (Date of defense: 1998-07-21)
Theoretical methods to compute accurate x-ray spectra emitted from targets bombarded with kV electrons are required for quantification in Electron Probe Microanalysis (EPMA), especially for the analysis ...
Benítez i Porras, Francesc (Date of defense: 2016-01-29)
Plasma Polymerization is a novel technique for the preparation of polymer-like thin film coatings at low temperatures onto almost any type of substrates: plastic, metal, semiconductors, wood, textile ...
Soler Vilamitjana, David (Date of defense: 2004-11-10)
The photovoltaic conversion of sun light energy into electricity constitutes a viable, clean and renewable alternative for electric energy production. A wide variety of different materials have been ...
Stella, Marco (Date of defense: 2010-03-12)
Organic semiconductors are being investigated as an alternative to more traditional materials such as silicon, for the fabrication of different types of electronic devices. The advantages of such materials ...
Sanaee, Mohammad Reza (Date of defense: 2015-07-02)
The concept of nanotechnology is attributed to Nobel prize winner Richard Feynman who gave a very famous, visionary in 1959 (published in 1960) during one of his lectures, saying: "the principles of ...
Romano Rodríguez, Albert (Date of defense: 1991-03-14)
In the last decade transmission electron microscopy (TEM) has become one of the most powerful tools for the structural characterization of crystalline materials. Especially in the field of microelectronics ...
Freire Soler, Víctor Manuel (Date of defense: 2014-11-14)
In 2004 there were newly conditions for a scientific revolution, with very important technology implications and yet to be completely developed. It is the isolation of atomic carbon layers, better known ...
Lluscà Jané, Marta (Date of defense: 2015-07-10)
The objective of this work was to study two different light management approaches to enhance the efficiency of thin film Si solar cells and these were the manipulation of the light path (light trapping) ...
Nos Aguilà, Oriol (Date of defense: 2013-01-07)
The first block of this thesis deals with the study of the degradation process of tungsten catalytic filaments in the field of silicon deposition with the Hot Wire Chemical Vapour Deposition (HWCVD) ...