Shi, Yuanyuan (Date of defense: 2018-07-24)
Electronic machines and computers have experienced a huge development during the last four decades, mainly thanks to the continuous scaling down of the hardware responsible of information processing and ...
Giraldo Muñoz, Sergio (Date of defense: 2018-03-16)
The main objective of this thesis was to develop high efficiency thin film solar cells based on low-toxic and earth-abundant kesterite Cu2ZnSnSe4 (CZTSe) absorbers through the implementation of innovative ...
Kleineberg, Kaj Kolja (Date of defense: 2016-06-27)
Online social networks (OSNs) enable researchers to study the social universe at a previously unattainable scale. The worldwide impact and the necessity to sustain their rapid growth emphasize the ...
Pla i Asesio, Dolors (Date of defense: 2015-07-31)
In the last decades, energy requirements of portable devices are exponentially increasing while the capacity of the current battery technology is not progressing accordingly. This energy gap claims for ...
Amato, Roberta (Date of defense: 2018-04-13)
The topics dealt with in this thesis are all part of the general problem of social consensus, namely how a convention flourish and decay and what motivates people to conform to it. Examples range from ...
Pablos Alonso, Daniel (Date of defense: 2016-06-22)
In this thesis we have studied how high energetic excitations propagate through a non- abelian strongly coupled plasma. This new state of matter is produced at heavy ion collisions in our accelerators ...
Espindola Rodriguez, Moises (Date of defense: 2015-07-23)
Solar cells generate electrical power by direct conversion of solar radiation into electricity using semiconductors. Once produced, the solar cells do not require the use of water; operate in silence ...
Musheghyan Avetisyan, Arevik (Date of defense: 2019-07-12)
The goal of the present investigation is to examine the processing-structure-property relationships of multilayer graphene nanowall materials. Various plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition (PECVD) ...
Burgués Calderón, Javier (Date of defense: 2019-07-09)
Chemical source localization (CSL) by autonomous robots has been a topic of research since the early 1990s and still today remains elusive beyond simple scenarios. It has numerous potential applications, ...
Avireddy, Hemesh (Date of defense: 2019-07-11)
The thesis is focused on the development and enhancement of the electrochemical properties of the carbon based supercapacitors and pseudocapacitors. To overcome the capacitance loss at the condition of ...