Albajar Viñas, Ferran (Date of defense: 2001-06-14)
The understanding and modelling of heat and radiation transport in tokamak plasmas is essential in order to progress in the development of thermonuclear fusion towards a practical energy source which ...
Volpe, Giovanni (Date of defense: 2008-10-23)
The ability of detecting farces and torques at the micro-and nano-scale is fundamental. When this Thesis started, various scanning probe techniques had already been developed to probe the mechanical ...