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    Structure nanoengineering of functional nanomaterials. Advanced electron microscopy study 

    Zamani, Reza (Date of defense: 2013-11-04)

    In this report novel materials for advanced applications are studied by means of the latest microscopy technologies and methodologies which have had a dramatic impact on progress of materials science. The aim was to study ...

    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 ...

    Development of a Complete Optical Microsystem for Particle Flow Detection 

    Bernat Ubiaga, Ivan (Date of defense: 2013-11-08)

    Esta tesis doctoral resume el trabajo realizado en el Departamento de Electrónica de la Facultad de Física, en la Universidad de Barcelona. El objetivo de la misma se centra en el diseño y fabricación de un microsistema ...

    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 ...

    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 ...

    Noves estructures LTCC i HTCC per a sensors de pressió capacitius i per a sensors lambda de tipus resistiu 

    Fernández Sanjuán, Josep Maria (Date of defense: 2013-12-09)

    La tecnologia thick film pot definir-se com el procés on es du a terme la creació de dipòsits de circuits impresos en un substrat de ceràmica rígida mitjançant la tècnica de la serigrafia. Les pastes que s’utilitzen per ...

    Caracterización por espectroscopia Raman de semiconductores Cu2ZnSnS4 para nuevas tecnologías fotovoltaicas 

    Fontané Sánchez, Xavier (Date of defense: 2013-12-10)

    El trabajo se ha centrado en el análisis del compuesto Cu2ZnSnS4 (CZTS) mediante la técnica de espectroscopia de dispersión Raman, para una mayor optimización de los procesos de crecimiento de capas absorbedoras y la ...

    Towards a new dimension in analytical TEM: EELS, Tomography and the Spectrum Volume 

    Yedra Cardona, Lluís (Date of defense: 2013-12-18)

    The main goal of this thesis is to combine electron tomography and electron energy loss spectroscopy (EELS) in the TEM, in order to obtain chemical and electronic information in 3D in the nanoscale. Tomography in the ...

    Development of a multichannel integrated circuit for Silicon Photo-Multiplier arrays readout 

    Comerma Montells, Albert (Date of defense: 2014-01-09)

    The aim of this thesis is to present a solution for the readout of Silicon Photo-Multipliers (SiPMs) arrays improving currently implemented systems. Using as a starting point previous designs with similar objectives a novel ...

    New strategies in metal oxide nanowire based gas sensors 

    Shao, Feng (Date of defense: 2014-01-31)

    This thesis presents the results of applying new strategies to understand the mechanism and explore the sensing performance of metal oxide (MOX) nanowire based gas sensors by testing individual nanowire gas sensors, running ...

    Treatments and Analysis of C-sp(2) nanomaterials 

    Claramunt Ruiz, Sergi (Date of defense: 2014-02-10)

    Carbon can be found or synthesised in different arrangements, each one with its particular properties. Curiously, the main building block of the majority of these structures (graphene) was first isolated in 2004 by A.K ...

    Towards High Performance Nanostructured Thermoelectric Materials. A Bottom-Up Approach 

    Cadavid, Doris (Date of defense: 2014-03-12)

    En esta tesis se usa la estrategia de “Bottom-up” para la producción de materiales termoeléctricos nano-estructurados con alta eficiencia termoeléctrica. Esta técnica proporciona un amplio rango de posibilidades para ...

    Sistemas nanoestructurados y propiedades de transporte en capas delgadas de manganita 

    Peña Guédez, Luis Alejandro (Date of defense: 2014-04-24)

    En esta memoria se recogen los resultados sobre preparación y caracterización de las propiedades físicas de sistemas magnéticos nanoestructurados. Para la fabricación de las nanoestructuras se han empleado dos estrategias ...

    Atomistic study of structural and electronic transport properties of silicon quantum dots for optoelectronic applications 

    García Castelló, Núria (Date of defense: 2014-04-28)

    Introduction It is undisputed that the silicon became the material most widely used in electronics in recent decades[1,2]. The qualities of silicon are well known, from its abundance and low cost to its ability to easily ...

    Development of Cu(2)ZnSn(S,Se)(4) based solar cells 

    Fairbrother, Andrew (Date of defense: 2014-05-07)

    Thin film solar cell technologies are rapidly developing, and chalcopyrite (Cu(In,Ga)Se2) based devices have demonstrated the highest power conversion efficiencies on the laboratory scale. However, in spite of this promise, ...

    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 ...

    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, ...

    Ordered mesoporous metal oxides for solid oxide fuel cells and gas sensors 

    Almar Liante, Laura (Date of defense: 2014-07-30)

    Nanomaterials have received increasing attention during the last decades in the solid state field since they play a major role as catalyst and catalyst supports for many applications including fuel cells or gas sensors. ...

    Development of a multi-electrode impedimetric biosensor: detection of pathogenic bacteria and mycotoxins 

    Barreiros dos Santos, Marília (Date of defense: 2014-09-23)

    This thesis aims the development of a multi-electrode platform with applications on different biosensing fields: (i) detection of pathogenic bacteria E.coli O157:H7 and (ii) detection of the mycotoxin Ochratoxin A. For ...

    Rare earth- and Si nanostructure-based light emitting devices for integrated photonics 

    Berencén Ramírez, Yonder Antonio (Date of defense: 2014-10-23)

    This thesis presents experimental work on developing rare-earth ions and Si nanostructures as a material platform for light emitting devices (LEDs) in the visible and near-infrared range. The realization of the different ...