Padullés Rulló, Ramon (Date of defense: 2017-06-22)
In 2009, the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation approved a proposal to modify the Global Positioning System (GPS) receiver and to allocate a Polarimetric (Pol) Radio Occultation (RO) antenna in ...
Li, Junshan (Date of defense: 2019-06-18)
In this project, nanoparticles were produced by solution-based one-pot synthesis, particularly colloidal methods. A series of powerful tools were used to characterize the structure and surface compositions ...
Mezzina, Bianca (Date of defense: 2021-11-30)
The El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) is a natural mode of climate variability in the tropical Pacific, which not only perturbs the local atmosphere, but whose impacts can also reach remote, extra-tropical ...
Martín Río, Sergi (Date of defense: 2022-07-05)
The direct manipulation of spin currents with no charges involved along with the delicate interplay between charge, spin and orbital degrees of freedom in materials and structures has attracted a renewed ...
Rodríguez i Ballester, Oriol (Date of defense: 2021-05-06)
Tornadoes are the meteorological phenomenon which can produce the strongest surface wind on Earth, causing damage, injuries and fatalities. Several studies show that severe storm environments could be ...
Berestok, Taisiia (Date of defense: 2018-07-13)
This thesis focuses on different aspects of NCs colloidal synthesis, the exploration of the relevant surface chemistries that afford NC assembly and the NC implementation into porous nanomaterials. The ...
Li, Mengyao (Date of defense: 2022-01-17)
TE devices have countless potential application, but their high manufacturing and material costs hamper their cost-effectiveness and limit their widespread implementation. To overcome these drawbacks, ...
Oliva Vidal, Robert (Date of defense: 2016-10-11)
This thesis is devoted to the study of the optical and vibrational properties of indium nitride (InN) and indium gallium nitride (InGaN) at room and high-pressure conditions. For this purpose, we have ...
Via González, Marta (Date of defense: 2023-09-19)
[eng] Atmospheric aerosol is an ensemble of atmospheric pollutants with a severe impact on human health and Earth climate. Particulate Matter (PM) effects vary depending on the composition and size. ...
Delgado Torres, Carlos (Date of defense: 2024-02-14)
[eng] Climate variations at annual to decadal time scales affect many regions around the globe, causing direct impacts on the economy, ecosystems and society. Knowing these variations in advance allows ...