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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Udina Oliva, Sergi (Date of defense: 2012-07-13)
This PhD thesis introduces basic concepts of smart chemical sensors design, which are afterwards applied to a particular application: the analysis of natural gas. The thesis addresses thus two sets ...
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: ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...