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Huembeli, Patrick (Fecha de defensa: 2021-03-25)
Research at the intersection of machine learning (ML) and quantum physics is a recent growing field due to the enormous expectations and the success of both fields. ML is arguably one of the most promising technologies ...
Schwender, Jill (Fecha de defensa: 2018-11-12)
In recent years, carbon nanotube and graphene mechanical resonators have attracted considerable attention because of their unique properties. Their high resonance frequencies, high quality factors and their ultra-low mass ...
Venturini, Valeria (Fecha de defensa: 2022-04-08)
Living tissues are crowded and dynamic environments, in which signalling molecules and physical forces constantly act on single cells. To ensure correct tissue development and homeostasis, cells function like small processors: ...
Raj, Saurabh (Fecha de defensa: 2012-11-05)
This thesis is devoted to the study of mechanochemistry of single cells and single biomolecules. Mechanochemistry relates to the association of mechanical and chemical occurrence at the molecular level. Using a combination ...
Torreño Piña, Juan Andrés (Fecha de defensa: 2015-10-02)
State-of-the-art biophysical techniques featuring high temporal and spatial resolution have allowed for the first time the direct visualization of individual transmembrane proteins on the cell membrane. These techniques ...
Tulli, Domenico (Fecha de defensa: 2012-02-20)
A material that is enabling integrated optics is the ferroelectric crystal Lithium Niobate (LiNbO3), which has excellent electro-optical, acousto-optical and nonlinear optical properties. Moreover, it can be doped with ...
Rudé Moreno, Miquel (Fecha de defensa: 2016-12-01)
Photonic devices are key to implement future communication and information technologies. Their success is largely determined by our capability to appropriately control light in such devices, especially in future reconfigurable ...
Yudistira, Didit (Fecha de defensa: 2012-02-21)
In this thesis we have investigated and proposed acoustic superLattices (ASLs) made of periodically poled ZX-cut lithium niobate (PPLN) associated ith coplanar electrodes as an effective alternative for surface acoustic ...
Bareza, Nestor Jr. (Fecha de defensa: 2022-11-07)
(English) Mid-infrared (mid-IR) spectroscopy in the wavelength region between 2 and 20 µm is a powerful technique to identify vibrational absorption signatures of molecules, finding in this way extensive applications in ...
Malaiwong, Nawaphat (Fecha de defensa: 2023-10-24)
(English) Locomotion behavior is the output of the integrated clues by the nervous system along with proprioceptive regulation, which encompasses responses such as avoiding, feeding, and reproduction. Mechanosensation, the ...
Mantilla Pérez, Paola (Fecha de defensa: 2017-04-24)
Thin film photovoltaics encompass a group of technologies able to harvest light within a few microns thickness. The reduced thickness allows a low cost of manufacture while making the films flexible and adaptable to ...
Seri, Alessando (Fecha de defensa: 2019-07-03)
Quantum memories (QMs) for light represent a fundamental ingredient for the development of a quantum internet. Among other applications, they are a building block for the distribution of entanglement on large scale, i.e. ...
Andreoli, Francesco (Fecha de defensa: 2023-03-23)
(English) Our ability to confine, guide, and bend light has led to astonishing technological achievements, playing a fundamental role in diverse fields like microscopy, photochemistry, telecommunications or material design. ...
Martínez Montblanch, Luis (Fecha de defensa: 2014-10-31)
Durante las últimas décadas, la energía solar fotovoltaica se ha convertido en una tecnología de creciente importancia para satisfacer las necesidades energéticas actuales sin sacrificar las futuras generaciones. Las células ...
Regmi, Raju (Fecha de defensa: 2017-11-10)
Single-molecule fluorescence spectroscopy has revolutionized the field of biophysical sciences by enabling visualization of dynamic molecular interactions and nanoscopic features with high spatiotemporal resolution. ...
Mkhitaryan, Vahagn (Fecha de defensa: 2017-09-29)
Photonics is a key enabling technology for many applications ranging from communications to energy and medicine. Its success is largely relying on our capability to appropriately control light in optical devices. To this ...
Giulio, Valerio di (Fecha de defensa: 2023-04-12)
(English) Among the fundamental constituents of matter, charged particles such electrons and positrons are leading protagonists in physical phenomena associated with small (~ meV) and high (~ MeV) energy scales. For example, ...
Brinks, Daan (Fecha de defensa: 2012-10-19)
Ultrafast pulses allow observation of molecular dynamics with femtosecond time resolution through pump probe experiments. However, averaging over an ensemble of molecules tends to wash out phase sensitive information, ...
Sanz Paz, Maria (Fecha de defensa: 2020-07-27)
Photonic antennas are metallic (or dielectric) nanoscale structures that convert propagating light into highly confined fields, and vice versa, in analogy to common radio antennas but on nanometric scales that lead to ...
Volpe, Giorgio (Fecha de defensa: 2012-05-10)
El control dinámico y determinístico de la luz en una escala espacial por debajo de la longitud de onda es un requisito clave para ampliar los conceptos y las funcionalidades de la macro-óptica hasta la escala nanométrica. ...