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    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 ...

    Microfluidic devices with integrated biosensors for biomedical applications 

    Parra Cabrera, César Alejandro (Date of defense: 2014-12-04)

    In recent years, the LOC community has focused most of its research in the biomedical and biotechnology fields, due to the need of portable, low power consumption and low cost theranostics microdevices. Some developing ...

    Novel sensors technologies applied to force spectroscopy in molecular biology 

    Gonzalez Claramonte, Laura (Date of defense: 2014-12-09)

    Force plays an essential role in all fields of biology. Measurement of these forces with high precision provides information about the structure, dynamics, intra and intermolecular interactions, and the mechanical properties ...

    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 ...

    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 ...

    Study of natural nanovesicles carrying olfactory receptors for the development of biosensing platforms 

    Sanmartí Espinal, Marta (Date of defense: 2015-01-15)

    Natural vesicles produced from genetically engineered cells with tailored membrane receptor composition are promising building blocks for sensing biodevices. This is particularly true for the case of G-protein coupled ...

    A Novel Sensor Concept for Selective and Self-Powered Gas Detection 

    Hoffmann, Martin W. G. (Date of defense: 2015-01-19)

    Les tecnologies de sensors de gas basades en semiconductors presenten limitacions importants de selectivitat i consum d'energia. Per tant, esdevé necessari l’assaig de nous conceptes de dispositius capaços de satisfer ...

    COTS Analog Prototype for LHCb's Calorimeter Upgrade 

    Abellan Beteta, Carlos (Date of defense: 2015-01-30)

    The objective of this thesis is to present a proposal for the analogue signal processing chain needed for the LHCb calorimeter upgrade improving the design used originally. The design contains several novelties: the ...

    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 ...

    Conducting polymers for micro and nano electrodes. Application to biomolecule sensing and release 

    Galán Cascales, Teresa (Date of defense: 2015-05-14)

    This thesis aims at providing a better understanding of the micro- and nanofabrication of conducting polymers for biomedical devices and presents novel processes that widen the application range of conducting polymers in ...

    Solution-Processing of Chalcogenide Nanoparticles and Thin Films for Photovoltaic Applications 

    Carreté, Àlex (Date of defense: 2015-05-29)

    Thin film solar cells based on direct band gap semiconductors have attracted much research during last decades. Thin film technologies are currently commercial and display record power conversion efficiencies up to 20% at ...

    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 ...

    Rare Earth-Doped Silicon-Based Light Emitting Devices: Towards new Integrated Photonic Building Blocks 

    Ramírez, Joan Manel (Date of defense: 2015-07-02)

    This thesis presents the work carried out towards the implementation of RE-doped Si-based light emitting devices as integrated optoelectronic building blocks for Silicon Photonics. This work spans from the fundamentals ...

    Silicon Nanocrystal Superlattices for Light-Emitting and Photovoltaic Devices 

    López Vidrier, Julià (Date of defense: 2015-07-16)

    During the last decades, silicon nanocrystals have focused great attention due to the size-dependent physical properties they present, attributed to the quantum confinement effect. This, added to the bulk silicon compatibility ...

    Detection of Transcription Factor Binding Sites by Means of Multivariate Signal Processing Techniques 

    Pairó Castiñeira, Erola (Date of defense: 2015-07-21)

    Gene expression is a complex and highly regulated process. Most of the regulation is controlled by short DNA sequences that can be bound by some proteins called transcription factors (TF). Binding to these sites, the ...

    Multivariate Signal Processing for Quantitative and Qualitative Analysis of Ion Mobility Spectrometry data, applied to Biomedical Applications and Food Related Applications 

    Guamán Novillo, Ana Verónica (Date of defense: 2015-10-21)

    There are several applications where the measurement of VOC results to be useful, such as: toxic leaks, air quality measurements, explosive detection, monitoring of food and beverages quality, diagnosis of diseases, etc. ...

    Quantitative methods for electron energy loss spectroscopy 

    Eljarrat Ascunce, Alberto (Date of defense: 2015-10-21)

    This thesis explores the analytical capabilities of low-loss electron energy loss spectroscopy (EELS), applied to disentangle the intimate configuration of advanced semiconductor heterostructures. Modern aberration corrected ...

    Phonons in III-nitride thinfilms, bulk and nanowires: a closer look into InN vibrational properties 

    Domènech i Amador, Núria (Date of defense: 2015-10-30)

    This thesis is devoted to the study of the interactions of phonons in indium nitride (InN) and materials of the (In,Ga)N system with wurtzite structure. For this purpose, we present Raman spectroscopy on nanowires (NWs), ...

    Development of a nano sensor for direct-electric free-label detection of DNA’s hybridization and single nucleotide polymorphism 

    Zaffino, Rosa Letizia (Date of defense: 2015-11-11)

    The search for analytical tools suitable for wide-scale application of DNA analysis is an hot research topic, although thanks to well-established microarray based technology, analysis of DNA sequences and SNP detection can ...

    Raman scattering based strategies for assessment of advanced chalcopyrite photovoltaic technologies: Characterisation of electrodeposited Cu(In,Ga)(S,Se)2 solar cells 

    Insignares, Cristina (Date of defense: 2015-11-13)

    The main objective of this thesis is the development of Raman scattering based methodologies for the analysis of advanced electrodeposition-based CIGS technologies, with the identification and characterization of parameters ...