Van Der Hofstadt Serrano, Marc (Date of defense: 2016-12-21)
The large abundance of bacterial growth niches provide a rich diversity of bacterial traits. These are usually characterized using traditional microbiology research tools, and newer characterization ...
Ibáñez Sabaté, Maria (Date of defense: 2013-03-05)
The work developed during this PhD has embraced several topics that I divide in three blocks. Each block contains two chapters in this dissertation. Additionally, a general introduction of the different ...
Stella, Marco (Date of defense: 2010-03-12)
Organic semiconductors are being investigated as an alternative to more traditional materials such as silicon, for the fabrication of different types of electronic devices. The advantages of such materials ...
Shinde, Mahesh (Date of defense: 2016-02-01)
The investigation of climate variability in different timescales such as daily, monthly, seasonal and inter-annual has utmost importance for managing the socio-economic processes on regional to global ...
Sales Pardo, Marta (Date of defense: 2002-11-22)
Disorder is present in many systems in nature and in many different versions. For instance, the dislocations of a crystal lattice, or the randomness of the interaction between magnetic moments. One of ...
Barranco López, Alejandro (Date of defense: 2014-10-03)
The study of supersymmetry has led us to a better understanding of field theories, specially in the strong coupling regime. In this thesis we have tried to show this through several examples. These ...
Reguera, D. (David) (Date of defense: 2001-11-23)
Esta tesis está dedicada al estudio de la cinética de la nucleación centrada en sus aspectos mesoscópicos y fuera equilibrio. Hemos desarrollado y presentado un marco teórico, basado en la Termodinámica ...
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 ...
Fairbrother, Andrew (Date of defense: 2014-05-07)
Thin film solar cell technologies are rapidly developing, and chalcopyrite (Cu(In,Ga)Se2) based devices have demonstrated the highest power conversion efficiencies on the laboratory scale. However, in ...
Gramse, Georg (Date of defense: 2012-06-19)
The objective of my thesis was to develop novel techniques and methods to probe the dielectric properties of biomembranes in air and their natural environment - liquid solution. The dielectric constant ...