Coronas Serna, Luis Enrique (Date of defense: 2023-03-28)
[eng] This thesis develops, validates, and explores applications of the Franzese-Stanley (FS) coarse-grained model for bulk water, ultimately intended to represent the solvent in large-scale simulations ...
Sopeña i Martínez, Pol (Date of defense: 2020-12-16)
Printed electronics appeared in the 1980s as a cost-effective alternative to silicon-based electronics. Employing the techniques from the graphics industry, such as rotogravure or screen printing, it ...
Ser Badia, Daniel del (Date of defense: 2018-12-21)
The first confirmed detection of an exoplanet orbiting a main-sequence star was made in 1995, when a giant planet was found by radial velocity measurements in a four-day orbit around the nearby star 51 ...
Álvarez-Carulla, Albert (Date of defense: 2021-01-29)
The thesis reflects the research carried out on the development of truly self-powered devices. The development of devices for the scopes of Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) and Point-of-Care devices ...
Martín Malpartida, Gemma (Date of defense: 2018-07-02)
The main goal of this thesis has been to apply in-situ Transmission Electron Microscopy (TEM) electrical measurements using a Scanning Tunneling Microscopy (STM) tip, combined with TEM imaging and ...
Shi, Yuanyuan (Date of defense: 2018-07-24)
Electronic machines and computers have experienced a huge development during the last four decades, mainly thanks to the continuous scaling down of the hardware responsible of information processing and ...
Giraldo Muñoz, Sergio (Date of defense: 2018-03-16)
The main objective of this thesis was to develop high efficiency thin film solar cells based on low-toxic and earth-abundant kesterite Cu2ZnSnSe4 (CZTSe) absorbers through the implementation of innovative ...
Glinkowska Mares, Adrianna (Date of defense: 2021-09-09)
Two decades ago, microfluidic technology begun to make its appearance in the fields of drug delivery and biomedical engineering to irrevocably revolutionize them. It was quickly realized how microchannels ...
Kleineberg, Kaj Kolja (Date of defense: 2016-06-27)
Online social networks (OSNs) enable researchers to study the social universe at a previously unattainable scale. The worldwide impact and the necessity to sustain their rapid growth emphasize the ...
Pla i Asesio, Dolors (Date of defense: 2015-07-31)
In the last decades, energy requirements of portable devices are exponentially increasing while the capacity of the current battery technology is not progressing accordingly. This energy gap claims for ...