Alda, Irene (Date of defense: 2020-07-09)
The field of levitation optomechanics---or levitodynamics---studies the manipulation and control of small trapped objects in an isolated environment, providing a gateway to answer fundamental questions ...
Escofet Soteras, Jaume (Date of defense: 1999-09-23)
La forta exigència de qualitat a que són sotmesos els productes actuals fa que els processos d'inspecció i control industrial ocupin, cada vegada més, un lloc destacat en la seva fabricació. La indústria ...
Domínguez Juárez, Jorge Luís (Date of defense: 2014-07-22)
In recent years, it has been proposed that circular microresonators may become an important element in the core of many photonic devices. The high Q-factors seen in fused silica micro-spheres and ...
Kottmann, Korbinian Gebhard (Date of defense: 2022-10-14)
(English) We perform quantum simulation on classical and quantum computers and set up a machine learning framework in which we can map out phase diagrams of known and unknown quantum many-body systems ...
Sanabria, Ferran (Date of defense: 2015-12-02)
The purpose of this PhD thesis was to design, implement and validate a low cost compact system based on the double-pass I technique in order to evaluate the viability of its use in the future in ...
Block, Alexander (Date of defense: 2019-09-06)
Heat transport in solids is one of the oldest problems in physics, dating back to the earliest formulations of thermodynamics. The classical laws of heat conduction are valid as long as the observed ...
Royo Royo, Santiago (Date of defense: 1999-07-08)
El objetivo de la presente Tesis es el desarrollo de un sistema de medidas topográficas de superficies sin simetría de rotación, que se ha aplicado a superficies toroidales. No tenemos constancia de que ...
Woessner, Achim (Date of defense: 2017-05-11)
Plasmons are charge oscillations coupled to electromagnetic radiation. One of their most intriguing properties is their deep subwavelength confinement resulting in strongly enhanced light-matter ...
Quintero, Jesús M. (Date of defense: 2015-02-19)
This dissertation is divided in two parts: The first one deal with two main characteristics of the light sources for general lighting: Color quality and luminous efficacy. The second one deals with ...
Borroto Escuela, Dasiel Oscar (Date of defense: 2008-10-23)
Muscarinic acetylcholine receptors (mAChRs) have been shown to mediate various functions in the central and peripheral nervous systems. These include modulation of exocrine glandular secretion, ...