Pomareda Sesé, Victor (Date of defense: 2013-07-23)
Due to recent progress, higher-order chemical instrumentation provides large amounts of data which need automated processing in order to extract relevant information. In most cases, the raw signals or ...
Li, Wenhua (Date of defense: 2013-10-01)
The high quality CuxS nanocrystals were synthesized (Chapter 3) and the profound understanding and skills to prepare colloidal nanocrystals has been obtained and improved. It revealed a very simple ...
Gorostiza Langa, Pablo Ignacio (Date of defense: 2000-02-18)
Metallic deposits can be produced on the surface of silicon crystals by immersion in aqueous solutions containing fluoride and the metallic ions. This work aims to elucidate the general mechanism of ...
Jiménez Gallardo, Ismael (Date of defense: 2003-09-08)
This doctoral dissertation deals with the study of nanocrystalline tungsten oxide-based powders for gas sensing applications. Gas monitoring is receiving increasing attention due to environmental and ...
Calvo Barrio, Lorenzo (Date of defense: 1999-07-16)
The goal of this dissertation is the study and characterisation of high dose Carbon (C) implantation processes into Silicon (Si) and related materials for the synthesis of Silicon Carbide (SiC). The ...
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 ...
Cabanillas Costa, Josep (Date of defense: 2002-12-13)
The context of this thesis is the design of CMOS low power RFIC's suitable for direct conversion architectures. Our starting point is the analysis of the characteristics of the integrated passive ...
Álvarez García, Jacobo (Date of defense: 2002-04-19)
CuInS2 is a good candidate as photovoltaic absorber for the fabrication of high efficient and low cost solar cells. In this work, the vibrational properties of CuInS2 films have been studied by means ...
Brufau Penella, Jordi (Date of defense: 2009-01-30)
This thesis focuses on the use of smart materials in microrobotic applications. The development of materials with the capabilities to mechanically respond to electrical stimuli or, at the same time, ...
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 ...