Triana Iglesias, Miquel (Date of defense: 2017-09-21)
The gauge/gravity duality has proven to be a very useful tool in the understanding of quantum field theories outside the perturbative regime. In particular, holography has been able to shed light not ...
Baró i Urbea, Jordi (Date of defense: 2015-06-25)
Instead of a linear and smooth evolution, many physical system react to external stimuli in avalanche dynamics. When an out of equilibrium system governed by disorder is externally driven the evolution ...
Colomer de Simón, Pol (Date of defense: 2016-06-09)
The study of a system from a network perspective focuses on the impact that connectivity between the elements has on the function of the system. The observation and measurement of parameters of real-world ...
del Moral Méndez, Anna (Date of defense: 2020-07-20)
Natural disasters of hydro-meteorological origin are the biggest risk worldwide. In Catalonia (NE of the Iberian Peninsula), severe weather and flash floods occur each year, resulting in major damage ...
Sagarra Pascual, Oleguer Josep (Date of defense: 2016-07-22)
Complex networks grow subject to structural constraints which affect their measurable properties. Assessing the effect that such constraints impose on their observables is thus a crucial aspect to be ...
Domènech i Amador, Núria (Date of defense: 2015-10-30)
This thesis is devoted to the study of the interactions of phonons in indium nitride (InN) and materials of the (In,Ga)N system with wurtzite structure. For this purpose, we present Raman spectroscopy ...
Abellan Beteta, Carlos (Date of defense: 2015-01-30)
The objective of this thesis is to present a proposal for the analogue signal processing chain needed for the LHCb calorimeter upgrade improving the design used originally. The design contains several ...
Serrano Moral, Ma. Ángeles (María Ángeles) (Date of defense: 1999-05-28)
La tesis presenta una cuidadosa descripción del comportamiento dinámico de las antenas esféricas resonantes de ondas gravitatorias cuando son excitadas por radiación gravitatoria, o también por señales ...
Liu, Yu (Date of defense: 2018-07-12)
In this thesis, it is detailed the bottom-up production and characterization of thermoelectric (TE) nanomaterials with significant enhanced performance by using colloidal nanocrystals (NCs) as building ...
Carbonell Cortés, Carla (Date of defense: 2012-06-22)
The work presented in this thesis consists of two distinct parts. The first years of my work focused on the development and improvement of a new equipment built to study magnetic and electrical ...