Benito Altamirano, Ismael (Date of defense: 2022-04-19)
Color-based sensor devices often offer qualitative solutions, where a material change its color from one color to another, and this is change is observed by a user who performs a manual reading. These ...
Prignano, Luce (Date of defense: 2012-07-20)
During the last decades, it has become clear that systems formed by many interacting parts show emergent dynamical properties which are inherently related to the topology of the underlying pattern of ...
Ros Figueras, Carles (Date of defense: 2019-10-30)
The excessive consumption of non-renewable energy sources such as fossil fuels has lead the world to a global climate change, urging for new energy consumption habits together with developing cost- ...
Romero Güiza, Maycoll Stiven (Date of defense: 2015-10-02)
Anaerobic digestion is a worldwide technology to treat organic waste streams, primarily due to its capacity to produce methane as renewable energy. However, there is an increasing interest on nutrient ...
López Conesa, Lluís (Date of defense: 2015-12-18)
Being able to directly relate the final properties with the intimate structure provides a unique insight into the functionality of materials and devices, especially when compared to the necessarily ...
Fariña Sierra, Noela (Date of defense: 2011-10-17)
In this thesis we study the Einstein-Aether (E-A) theory from the point of view of its cosmological perturbations. We are interested in the constraints that may be obtained from this analysis and the ...
Fernández, Daniel (Fernández Moreno) (Date of defense: 2013-06-14)
The purpose of this thesis is to put forth and present a series of new applications of the gauge/string duality to areas of high energy physics and condensed matter physics. The contributions showcased ...
Miguel López, María del Carmen (Date of defense: 1985-10-06)
Our main goal is to study certain aspects of the dynamics of fluids with magnetic particles in suspension, based on their promising practical applications as new materials as welI as on its fundamental ...
Alarcón Oseguera, Francisco (Date of defense: 2016-02-08)
It is known that active particles induce emerging patterns as a result of their dynamic interactions, giving rise to amazing collective motions, such as swarming or clustering. Here we present a systematic ...
Sánchez Gonzalo, David (Date of defense: 2021-04-15)
Time-of-Flight Positron Emission Tomography (TOF-PET) scanners demand fast and efficient photo-sensors and scintillators coupled to fast readout electronics. Nowadays, there are two main configurations ...