Mas Soler, Josep (Date of defense: 2017-01-09)
Optical Tweezers (OT) are a light-based non-invasive tool that has played an important role during the last decades in the field of biophotonics, together with the advances in optical microscopy techniques. ...
Florian Baron, Camilo (Date of defense: 2016-07-26)
Digital manufacturing constitutes a real industrial revolution that is transforming the production processes from the early stages of research and development to mass production and marketing. The biggest ...
Català i Castro, Frederic (Date of defense: 2018-12-18)
Mechanics is the branch of physics that studies movement and force, and plays an evident role in life. The swimming dynamics of bacteria in search of nutrients, organelle transport by molecular motors ...
Kuntman, Ertan (Date of defense: 2019-12-19)
Jones matrix and nondepolarizing Mueller matrix are the basic elements of the calculus of polarization optics. In this thesis we discus other forms that can be used to represent optical properties of ...
Pantoja Suárez, Luis Fernando (Date of defense: 2019-09-20)
The ability of humans to study, manipulate and understand matter at the nanoscale has enabled us to develop materials that can combine physical, chemical, optical, magnetic and mechanical properties ...
Chaitoglou, Stefanos (Date of defense: 2016-11-11)
Graphene was first isolated from graphite using the method called the tape by scientists at the University of Manchester (Andre Geim, Konstantin Novoselov); such work was later awarded the Nobel Prize ...
Caballero Lorenzo, Álvaro (Date of defense: 2016-06-23)
The main objective of this work is to study and optimize the amorphous silicon deposited in a PECVD reactor of recent acquisition, making it suitable for thin film and c-Si based solar cells. Optimization ...
Ahmadi, Kavan (Date of defense: 2023-01-20)
[eng] Given the increasing use of the internet and the transfer of information in this era, it is crucial to focus on encryption and data security. According to the technological advances in optics and ...
Caballero Lucas, Francesc (Date of defense: 2019-10-15)
The use of femtosecond lasers has recently gained attention as a result of the recognition to Gérard Mourou and Donna Strickland with the award of the Nobel Prize in Physics 2018 "for their method of ...
del Moral Méndez, Anna (Date of defense: 2020-07-20)
Natural disasters of hydro-meteorological origin are the biggest risk worldwide. In Catalonia (NE of the Iberian Peninsula), severe weather and flash floods occur each year, resulting in major damage ...