Ibáñez Sabaté, Maria (Date of defense: 2013-03-05)
The work developed during this PhD has embraced several topics that I divide in three blocks. Each block contains two chapters in this dissertation. Additionally, a general introduction of the different ...
Illera Robles, Sergio (Date of defense: 2015-06-04)
The main topic of this thesis is the theoretical and computational investigation of the opto-electronic properties of large arrays of semiconductor quantum dots embedded in an insulator matrix. For that ...
Fairbrother, Andrew (Date of defense: 2014-05-07)
Thin film solar cell technologies are rapidly developing, and chalcopyrite (Cu(In,Ga)Se2) based devices have demonstrated the highest power conversion efficiencies on the laboratory scale. However, in ...
Gramse, Georg (Date of defense: 2012-06-19)
The objective of my thesis was to develop novel techniques and methods to probe the dielectric properties of biomembranes in air and their natural environment - liquid solution. The dielectric constant ...
Comerma Montells, Albert (Date of defense: 2014-01-09)
The aim of this thesis is to present a solution for the readout of Silicon Photo-Multipliers (SiPMs) arrays improving currently implemented systems. Using as a starting point previous designs with similar ...
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 ...
Domènech i Amador, Núria (Date of defense: 2015-10-30)
This thesis is devoted to the study of the interactions of phonons in indium nitride (InN) and materials of the (In,Ga)N system with wurtzite structure. For this purpose, we present Raman spectroscopy ...
Abellan Beteta, Carlos (Date of defense: 2015-01-30)
The objective of this thesis is to present a proposal for the analogue signal processing chain needed for the LHCb calorimeter upgrade improving the design used originally. The design contains several ...
Guamán Novillo, Ana Verónica (Date of defense: 2015-10-21)
There are several applications where the measurement of VOC results to be useful, such as: toxic leaks, air quality measurements, explosive detection, monitoring of food and beverages quality, diagnosis ...
Vilella Figueras, Eva (Date of defense: 2013-11-22)
The next generation of particle colliders will be characterized by linear lepton colliders, where the collisions between electrons and positrons will allow to study in great detail the new particle ...