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    Efectes de la il·luminació sobre els òxids metàl·lics: aplicacions a sensors de gasos i fotoreducció de CO₂ 

    Manzanares Altés, Marta (Date of defense: 2016-02-01)

    La interacció de la llum amb els òxids metàl.lics (MOX's) semiconductors, sempre i quan l'energia dels fotons sigui superior a l'amplada de la banda prohibida, produeix un increment significatiu de la densitat de portadors ...

    Electric polarization properties of single bacteria measured with electrostatic force microscopy. Theoretical and practical studies of Dielectric constant of single bacteria and smaller elements 

    Esteban i Ferrer, Daniel (Date of defense: 2014-11-25)

    The present thesis is included in the field of nanobioelectricity. That is, understanding the electrical properties of biological specimens at the nanoscale (< 200 nm). To do so we used an electrical variation of the ...

    Electrical Characterization of Biological Elements by Atomic Force Microscopy 

    Casuso Páramo, Ignacio (Date of defense: 2008-03-11)

    The assessment of the electrical properties of biomolecules at the nanoscale becomes necessary for gathering previous basic knowledge and for the control of the biosensor fabrication. I developed instrumentation, protocols, ...

    Electrochemical multi-sensors for biomedical applications 

    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 surgery for in vivo ...

    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 ...

    Electron transport in low-dimensional systems: optoelectronic device simulations 

    Illera Robles, Sergio (Date of defense: 2015-06-04)

    The main topic of this thesis is the theoretical and computational investigation of the opto-electronic properties of large arrays of semiconductor quantum dots embedded in an insulator matrix. For that purpose, an electronic ...

    Elements de captació i emmagatzematge d'energies residuals del medi 

    Servera i Serapio, Llorenç (Date of defense: 2014-12-18)

    Bona part dels processos naturals i de les activitats humanes impliquen processos de transferència d’energia, que en part, o en la seva totalitat es dissipen en el medi. L’aprofitament de l’energia residual present en ...

    Enabling active locomotion and advanced features in capsule endoscopy 

    Alonso Casanovas, Oscar (Date of defense: 2012-04-27)

    The significant development in medical diagnostics and imaging has brought up a lot of new wireless capsule endoscopes coming to health care market. The capsule has been able to minimize patient discomfort and pain during ...

    Energy Harvesting-Aware Resource Management for Wireless Body Area Networks 

    Ibarra Ramirez, Ernesto Antonio (Date of defense: 2014-05-21)

    The rationale for a telemedicine system is the use of Information and Communications Technology (ICT) for the remote transmission of biomedical data and the remote control of biomedical equipment, in order to improve the ...

    Espectroscòpia òptica dels ions Tm3+ i Yb3+ en tungstats dobles monoclínics. Un nou làser d'estat sòlid 

    Güell Vilà, Frank (Date of defense: 2005-06-29)

    L'espectroscòpia òptica dels ions Tm3+ i Yb3+ en tungstats dobles monoclínics és molt important per desenvolupar dispositius làser d'estat sòlid. Els tungstats dobles monoclínics són molt interessants pels avantatges que ...

    Estudio de los procesos celulares inducidos por campos eléctricos en sistemas Lab-on-a-Chip 

    Oliva Brañas, Ana María (Date of defense: 2014-06-16)

    En esta tesis doctoral se ha estudiado de forma sistemática la relación entre los campos eléctricos y las células, y los efectos que éstos tienen a diferentes niveles (supervivencia, metabolismo, expresión proteica, ...

    Fabrication of (bio)molecular patterns with contact printing techniques 

    Agusil Antonoff, Juan Pablo (Date of defense: 2015-05-11)

    Patterns are a collection of forming units predictably repeated over a defined magnitude. Researchers have used patterns to guarantee the functionality and repeatability of their study. For that, the obtained data is ...

    Feasibility of Geiger-mode avalanche photodiodes in CMOS standard technologies for tracker detectors 

    Vilella Figueras, Eva (Date of defense: 2013-11-22)

    The next generation of particle colliders will be characterized by linear lepton colliders, where the collisions between electrons and positrons will allow to study in great detail the new particle discovered at CERN in ...

    Functional Nanomaterials from the Bottom-up Assembly of Colloidal Nanoparticles. A Strategy Towards Efficient Thermoelectrics 

    Ibáñez Sabaté, Maria (Date of defense: 2013-03-05)

    The work developed during this PhD has embraced several topics that I divide in three blocks. Each block contains two chapters in this dissertation. Additionally, a general introduction of the different topics is provided ...

    Integración de la tecnología cerámica multicapa 

    Ramos Pérez, Francisco Manuel (Date of defense: 2015-01-12)

    En esta tesis doctoral se estudia la problemática existente en la aplicación de los nanomateriales y la nanotecnología para la preparación de dispositivos basados en tecnología cerámica multicapa. Un punto clave de la ...

    Integrated Transformers and its Application to the RFIC Design. 

    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 components (inductors and ...

    Integrating nanoionics concepts in micro solid oxide fuel cells 

    Aruppukottai Muruga Bhupathi, Saranya (Date of defense: 2015-12-04)

    Fuel cells are one of the promising technology at present to meet the growing demand of clean energy and technology. Among the different varieties of fuel cells, Solid Oxide Fuel Cell (SOFC) research is advancing towards ...

    Integration of Si/Si-Ge nanostructures in micro-thermoelectric generators 

    Gadea, Gerard (Date of defense: 2017-09-22)

    Silicon and silicon-germanium nanostructures were grown, integrated, optimized and characterized for their application in thermoelectric generation. Specifically two kinds of nanostructures were worked: silicon and ...

    Integration of thin film based micro solid oxide fuel cells in silicon technology 

    Garbayo Senosiain, Iñigo (Date of defense: 2013-11-29)

    In the last decades, there has been a huge proliferation of portable devices. Among them, consumer electronics such as mobile phones, music players, e-books, etc. are greatly extended. In order to provide these ...

    Ion beam synthesis of silicon-carbon structures and related materials 

    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 attainment of ...