Carreté, Àlex (Date of defense: 2015-05-29)
Thin film solar cells based on direct band gap semiconductors have attracted much research during last decades. Thin film technologies are currently commercial and display record power conversion ...
Sanmartí Espinal, Marta (Date of defense: 2015-01-15)
Natural vesicles produced from genetically engineered cells with tailored membrane receptor composition are promising building blocks for sensing biodevices. This is particularly true for the case of ...
Parra Cabrera, César Alejandro (Date of defense: 2014-12-04)
In recent years, the LOC community has focused most of its research in the biomedical and biotechnology fields, due to the need of portable, low power consumption and low cost theranostics microdevices. ...
García Castelló, Núria (Date of defense: 2014-04-28)
Introduction It is undisputed that the silicon became the material most widely used in electronics in recent decades[1,2]. The qualities of silicon are well known, from its abundance and low cost to ...
Ramírez, Joan Manel (Date of defense: 2015-07-02)
This thesis presents the work carried out towards the implementation of RE-doped Si-based light emitting devices as integrated optoelectronic building blocks for Silicon Photonics. This work spans from ...
Insignares, Cristina (Date of defense: 2015-11-13)
The main objective of this thesis is the development of Raman scattering based methodologies for the analysis of advanced electrodeposition-based CIGS technologies, with the identification and ...
Yedra Cardona, Lluís (Date of defense: 2013-12-18)
The main goal of this thesis is to combine electron tomography and electron energy loss spectroscopy (EELS) in the TEM, in order to obtain chemical and electronic information in 3D in the nanoscale. ...
Illa Vila, Xavier (Date of defense: 2010-09-28)
This thesis describes a novel column format to be used in pressure-driven reversed-phase liquid chromatography. The column contains an ordered pillar array where the stationary phase is supported, and ...
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 ...
Tahirbegi, Islam Bogachan (Date of defense: 2013-11-05)
In this thesis, pH and potassium all-solid-state ISE based on potentiometry and bioimpedance sensors were designed, fabricated and integrated in a miniaturized array for its application in endoscopic ...