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) ...
Illa Vila, Xavier (Date of defense: 2010-09-28)
This thesis describes a novel column format to be used in pressure-driven reversed-phase liquid chromatography. The column contains an ordered pillar array where the stationary phase is supported, and ...
Bae, Joonwoo (Date of defense: 2007-04-12)
Quantum cryptography is one of the most important quantum information applications. The present thesis covers several topics on quantum cryptography, such as the security analysis of quantum channels ...
Ferrarese Lupi, Federico (Date of defense: 2012-05-23)
In this thesis we have presented a thorough study on the optical and sensoristic properties of SRSN Mu-disks, in an isolated configuration and when coupled to a passive Si3N4 waveguide placed underneath. ...
Fernández Romero, Luis (Date of defense: 2016-01-25)
Electronic noses (e-noses) have been utilized during the past three decades as general purpose instruments for chemical sensing. These instruments are inspired by natural olfactory systems, where fine ...
Balakishan, Harishankar (Date of defense: 2021-05-12)
The ability to characterize the elements beneath the surface has been a dire necessity in the fields of materials science, polymer technology, biology, and medical sciences. Scanning Probe Microscopies ...
Bianco, Valentino (Date of defense: 2013-07-19)
Water is commonly associated with life. This substance affects the living beings in countless aspects and length scales, ranging from molecular biology to climatology. Water exhibits a long series of ...
Torrents Verdaguer, Genís (Date of defense: 2016-06-27)
Maldacena's conjecture, often known as the holographic duality or the AdS/CFT correspondence, proposes an equivalence between gravitational theories in a hyperbolic space of a certain dimensionality and ...
Aznar Palenzuela, María (Date of defense: 2013-10-31)
The main goal of this thesis is to study the physical mechanisms implicated in the self-assembly and mechanical properties of non-enveloped viral capsids using coarse-grained models. The thesis has been ...
Montero Torralbo, Miquel (Date of defense: 1998-03-27)
This essay is devoted to the search for monochromatic gravitational wave signals in the data of the cryogenic detector "Explorer". With this aim several filtering procedures have been designed and ...