Development of a compact NDIR spectometer based on MOEMS components for fruit ripening monitoring 

    Fonollosa Magrinyà, Jordi (Date of defense: 2009-07-20)

    [spa] Actualmente el control de la concentración de etileno en las cámaras de almacenamiento de fruta proporciona información de gran interés sobre su estado. Por un lado, la fruta produce pequeñas concentraciones de etileno ...

    Electron Energy Loss Spectroscopy Solutions for Nanoscale Materials Science Problems 

    Estradé Albiol, Sònia (Date of defense: 2009-02-21)

    In the Transmission Electron Microscope (TEM), an incident electron suffers both elastic and inelastic scattering by the solid state thin sample that is being characterised. In the event of inelastic scattering, the incident ...

    Smart Chemical Sensors: Concepts and Application 

    Udina Oliva, Sergi (Date of defense: 2012-07-13)

    This PhD thesis introduces basic concepts of smart chemical sensors design, which are afterwards applied to a particular application: the analysis of natural gas. The thesis addresses thus two sets of objective, a first ...

    Solution Growth and Functional Properties of Vertically Aligned ZnO Nanowires 

    Fan, Jiandong (Date of defense: 2013-07-19)

    This dissertation has focused on three main topics: (1) Synthesis and characterization of ZnO:Cl NWs; (2) Hetero and homo nanostructures based on ZnO:Cl NWs for efficient PEC cells; (3) Photovoltaic performance of DSCs ...

    Vibrational properties of ZnO, group III-nitrides and dilute nitride alloys 

    Alarcón Lladó, Esther (Date of defense: 2009-07-07)

    [spa] Esta tesis consiste en el estudio de las propiedades vibracionales de materiales de interés para la fabricación de dispositivos optoelectrónicos, operando en distintos rangos espectrales, desde ultravioleta hasta el ...