Martínez Montoya, Jairo Javier (Date of defense: 2022-01-13)
This thesis is devoted to the study of radiation in generic conformal field theories in four dimensions. In the first part of the thesis we explain at the classical level the implications of ...
Moyà Anderico, Laura (Date of defense: 2021-04-26)
Galleria mellonella (greater wax moth) is a popular animal model that has been extensively used as an alternative in vivo model for investigating the virulence and pathogenicity of different bacteria. ...
Coll Benejam, Catalina (Date of defense: 2022-10-26)
[eng] Transmission Electron Microscopy (TEM), since its first implementation by Ernst August Friedrich Ruska and Max Knoll in 1931, has been an essential technique in the nanoscience and nanotechnology ...
García Lizarribar, Andrea (Date of defense: 2022-01-28)
In vitro engineered three-dimensional tissue models are attracting an increasing interest due to their potential applications in preclinical assays. On the one hand, they are an alternative to the high ...
Tomasevic, Marija (Date of defense: 2021-09-09)
In this thesis, we explore different ways in which spacetime exhibits peculiar properties when subjected to the rules of quantum mechanics. These rules are naturally implemented at the level of semiclassical ...
Katuri, Jaideep (Date of defense: 2018-09-20)
Living organisms and systems are continually converting energy, either internally stored or transduced from their surroundings, into motion. This activity and the resulting self-propulsion constantly ...
Chiabrera, Francesco Maria (Date of defense: 2019-06-28)
Interface-dominated materials such as nanocrystalline thin films have emerged as an enthralling class of materials able to engineer functional properties of transition metal oxides widely used in energy ...
Salem, Mohamed Ould (Date of defense: 2022-06-02)
This PhD thesis explores the use of wide band gap chalcopyrite (CIGS) material and its application in thin film solar cells onto transparent back contacts, as a way to promote the use of thin film ...
Hui, Fei (Date of defense: 2018-07-23)
Dielectrics are insulating materials used in many different electronic devices (e.g. capacitors, transistors, barristors), and play an important role in all of them. In fact, the dielectric is probably ...
Bola Sampol, Raúl (Date of defense: 2021-06-17)
To ensure progress in the field of biomedicine and drug development, it is essential to keep improving the equipment needed to carry out most of the experiments. With better tools, scientists can be ...