Rovira Esteva, Muriel (Date of defense: 2014-09-26)
Neutron diffraction is a powerful technique that allows to probe the structure of disordered phases across a variety of length scales. However, due to the inherent complexity of these disordered hases, ...
Torrentino, Taciano (Date of defense: 2015-07-10)
The goal of this thesis is to investigate the influence of current modulation in the dynamics of the low-frequency fluctuations (LFF) regime induced by optical feedback in semiconductor lasers. In this ...
Blay Carreras, Estel (Date of defense: 2014-07-21)
The atmospheric boundary layer is the part of the troposphere influenced by the presence of the surface, and where most weather phenomena occur. During the day, with fair weather conditions, a convective ...
Van Der Berg, Niels (Date of defense: 2012-05-11)
Shoreline sand waves are shoreline undulations with a length scale of several kilometres and a time scale of years to decades. They occur on many coasts, migrating in the direction of the dominant ...
Renedo Rouco, Isabel (Date of defense: 2014-11-13)
White dwarfs are the most common stellar evolutionary end-point. Moreover, they can be considered as reliable cosmic clocks to infer the age of a wide variety of stellar populations, including globular ...
Liu, Chaoren (Date of defense: 2015-10-07)
Dynamic mechanical analysis (DMA) is often used to explore the relaxation dynamics of metallic glasses (MGs). Secondary relaxations in metallic glasses appear as an excess wing, as a shoulder of the ...
Macía Rey, Adrián (Date of defense: 2015-02-13)
A microscopic description of the many-body properties of anisotropic homogeneous gases of bosonic dipoles in two dimensions is presented and discussed. By changing the polarization angle with respect ...
Orrit Prat, Jordi (Date of defense: 2012-03-07)
D’ençà que el polietilè reticulat (XLPE) es va començar a utilitzar com aïllament elèctric per cables de subministrament elèctric, s’han destinat molts esforços a l’estudi de les propietats dielèctriques ...
Starnini, Michele (Date of defense: 2014-10-24)
The data revolution experienced by social science has revealed complex patterns of interactions in human dynamics, such as the heterogeneity and burstiness of social contacts. The recently uncovered ...
Duarte Correa, María Jazmín (Date of defense: 2013-05-31)
Metallic glasses are often referred as glassy or amorphous alloys. They lack long-range order and microstructural defects that are characteristics in crystals, such as grain and phase boundaries and ...