Anàlisi termo-mecànica d'estructures micromecanitzades per a sensors de gas 

    Puigcorbé Punzano, Jordi (Date of defense: 2003-10-16)

    En aquest treball s'ha establert una metodologia d'anàlisi i caracterització del comportament tèrmic, mecànic i termomecànic d'estructures micromecanitzades per a sensors de gas a través de la combinació de simulacions ...

    Análisis de óxidos de silicio y estructuras multicapa para aplicaciones microelectrónicas 

    Moreno Pastor, José Antonio (Date of defense: 2000-09-14)

    A lo largo de este trabajo se ha estudiado la metodología de análisis de óxidos de silicio mediante elipsometría, la espectroscopía infrarroja y la espectroscopía de fotoelectrones de rayos X (XPS). Se han establecido las ...

    Characterisation of CuInS2 Films for Solar Cell Applications by Raman Spectroscopy 

    Álvarez García, Jacobo (Date of defense: 2002-04-19)

    CuInS2 is a good candidate as photovoltaic absorber for the fabrication of high efficient and low cost solar cells. In this work, the vibrational properties of CuInS2 films have been studied by means of Raman Spectroscopy, ...

    Diseño de moduladores Delta-Sigma en tecnología CMOS-VLSI. Aplicación al desarrollo de circuitos de interfaz para sensores capacitivos 

    Gómez Cama, José María (Date of defense: 2000-07-17)

    La tecnología microelectrónica esta entrando a formar parte de la vida cotidiana. Así, además del ordenador PC, tanto en los vehículos, como en las viviendas es difícil encontrar equipos o subsistemas eléctricos que no ...

    El concepto de estado electro-tónico en Faraday 

    Romo Feito, José (Date of defense: 1991-12-17)

    Sabemos la centralidad que la noción de estado electro-tónico tuvo en la primera formulación de las ecuaciones de Maxwell. El concepto, sin embargo, proviene de Faraday, que lo introdujo a raíz de su descubrimiento de la ...

    Energy Efficient Radio Resource Management for Heterogeneous Networks 

    Bastos, Joaquim Manuel Camões Sobral de (Date of defense: 2019-12-17)

    In the continuous evolution of mobile communication systems, there are many issues and aspects to be addressed, as well as in their effective implementation and deployment on cellular networks. In a general way, the most ...

    Espectroscòpia òptica dels ions Tm3+ i Yb3+ en tungstats dobles monoclínics. Un nou làser d'estat sòlid 

    Güell Vilà, Frank (Date of defense: 2005-06-29)

    L'espectroscòpia òptica dels ions Tm3+ i Yb3+ en tungstats dobles monoclínics és molt important per desenvolupar dispositius làser d'estat sòlid. Els tungstats dobles monoclínics són molt interessants pels avantatges que ...

    Integrated Transformers and its Application to the RFIC Design. 

    Cabanillas Costa, Josep (Date of defense: 2002-12-13)

    The context of this thesis is the design of CMOS low power RFIC's suitable for direct conversion architectures. Our starting point is the analysis of the characteristics of the integrated passive components (inductors and ...

    Ion beam synthesis of silicon-carbon structures and related materials 

    Calvo Barrio, Lorenzo (Date of defense: 1999-07-16)

    The goal of this dissertation is the study and characterisation of high dose Carbon (C) implantation processes into Silicon (Si) and related materials for the synthesis of Silicon Carbide (SiC). The attainment of ...

    Metal Additive Distribution in TiO2 and SnO2 Semiconductor Gas Sensor Nanostructured Materials 

    Arbiol i Cobos, Jordi (Date of defense: 2001-07-19)

    Recently, there has been an increasing interest in the electronics world for those aspects related to semiconducting gas sensor (SGS) materials. In view of the increasingly strict legal limits for pollutant gas emissions, ...

    Metal Deposition on Silicon from Fluoride Solution. 

    Gorostiza Langa, Pablo Ignacio (Date of defense: 2000-02-18)

    Metallic deposits can be produced on the surface of silicon crystals by immersion in aqueous solutions containing fluoride and the metallic ions. This work aims to elucidate the general mechanism of the deposition process, ...

    Methods and tools for the design of RFICs 

    Carrasco Carrillo, Tomás (Date of defense: 2013-10-16)

    Ambient intelligence is going to focus the next advances in wireless technologies. Hence, the increasing demand on radio frequency (RF) devices and applications represents, not only a challenge for technological industries ...

    Optimización de sensores de presión piezorresistivos de silicio para instrumentación biomédica y aplicaciones a alta temperatura 

    Marco Colás, Santiago (Date of defense: 1993-07-20)

    Dentro del amplísimo campo de los sensores, están emergiendo con gran fuerza los dispositivos basados en tecnología de silicio. El uso de la tecnología microelectrónica para la producción de sensores permite obtener ...

    Optimización de técnicas ópticas y eléctricas para el estudio de heteroestructuras basadas en compuestos III-V 

    Bosch Estrada, José (Date of defense: 1993-09-28)

    En la primera parte de este trabajo se analizan diferentes técnicas experimentales tales como la Fotoluminiscencia (PL); Absorción Óptica (AO); Fotoexcitación de la Luminiscencia (PLE) Admitancia, que hemos utilizado para ...

    Shape Control and Functional Properties of Copper Chalcogenide Colloidal Nanocrystals 

    Li, Wenhua (Date of defense: 2013-10-01)

    The high quality CuxS nanocrystals were synthesized (Chapter 3) and the profound understanding and skills to prepare colloidal nanocrystals has been obtained and improved. It revealed a very simple synthetic route not only ...

    Signal Processing Approaches to the Detection and Localization of Gas Chemical Sources using Partially Selective Sensors 

    Pomareda Sesé, Victor (Date of defense: 2013-07-23)

    Due to recent progress, higher-order chemical instrumentation provides large amounts of data which need automated processing in order to extract relevant information. In most cases, the raw signals or spectra are too complex ...

    Smart materials for microrobotics motion control and power harvesting 

    Brufau Penella, Jordi (Date of defense: 2009-01-30)

    This thesis focuses on the use of smart materials in microrobotic applications. The development of materials with the capabilities to mechanically respond to electrical stimuli or, at the same time, to electrically respond ...

    Tungsten oxide nanocrystalline powders for gas sensing applications 

    Jiménez Gallardo, Ismael (Date of defense: 2003-09-08)

    This doctoral dissertation deals with the study of nanocrystalline tungsten oxide-based powders for gas sensing applications. Gas monitoring is receiving increasing attention due to environmental and safety reasons. Gas ...