Neumeier, Lukas (Date of defense: 2018-07-02)
In everyday life the impact of light on the motion of mechanical objects is negligible. However, modern experiments making use of high quality optical resonators are able to observe significant effects ...
Anaya Vejar, Maribel (Date of defense: 2016-07-15)
The need of ensure the proper performance of the structures in service has made of structural health monitoring (SHM) a priority research area. Researchers all around the world have focused efforts on ...
Primadhanty, Audi (Date of defense: 2017-11-17)
One of the challenges in Natural Language Processing (NLP) is the unstructured nature of texts, in which useful information is not easily identifiable. Information Extraction (IE) aims to alleviate it ...
Wei, Junxiong (Date of defense: 2018-12-18)
The goal of this thesis has been the development of a new class of advanced solid-state photonic sources for the mid-infrared (mid-IR) spectral regions, where there exists a severe shortage of practical ...
Riego Pérez, Albert (Date of defense: 2016-05-30)
The main objective of this work is to design the BEta-deLayEd Neutron detector (BELEN) detector for FAIR (Facility for Antiproton Ion Research). The purpose of this detector is the measurement of neutron ...
Martínez González, Eva (Date of defense: 2014-01-30)
This thesis is focused on the calibration of the Acoustic Emission (AE) technique to detect and identify damage mechanisms in tool steels. The AE measurement procedure has been calibrated for two ...
Morell Bennasser, Nicolás (Date of defense: 2018-12-17)
Suspended monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides (TMD) aremembranes that combine ultralow mass and exceptional optical prop-erties, making them intriguing materials for opto-mechanical applica-tions. ...
Chevalier, Guillaume G. (Date of defense: 2013-06-21)
Occurrence of debris flows has received little attention in the Pyrenees, probably due to the small risk faced by most of the debris-flow prone sites in this mountain range. Nevertheless, the event of ...
Tura i Brugués, Jordi (Date of defense: 2015-07-20)
Entanglement and nonlocal correlations constitute two fundamental resources for quantum information processing, as they allow for novel tasks that are otherwise impossible in a classical scenario. ...
Tejedor Saavedra, Enric (Date of defense: 2013-07-15)
The last decade has witnessed unprecedented changes in parallel and distributed infrastructures. Due to the diminished gains in processor performance from increasing clock frequency, manufacturers have ...