Brandano, Davide (Date of defense: 2012-03-09)
Increasing memory capacity in mobile devices, is driving the need of high-data rates equipment. The 7 GHz band around 60 GHz provides the opportunity for multi-gigabit/sec wireless communication. It is ...
Vilaplana Besler, Verónica (Date of defense: 2010-12-17)
One of the central problems in computer vision is the automatic recognition of object classes. In particular, the detection of the class of human faces is a problem that generates special interest due ...
Silva Pereira, Silvana (Date of defense: 2012-01-26)
Wireless sensor networks are developed to monitor areas of interest with the purpose of estimating physical parameters or/and detecting emergency events in a variety of military and civil applications. ...
Arana S., Fernando F. (Date of defense: 2014-11-17)
In this study a new methodology of evaluation and design of light spectral composition for use in museums is presented. The hypothesis under this doctoral thesis is explained in three parts: a) it is ...
Adabi Firouzjaee, Mohammad Ebrahim (Date of defense: 2018-01-25)
The solid state transformer (SST) is seen as a proper replacement of the conventional iron-and-copper transformer in the future smart grid . The SST offers several benefits (e.g. enhanced power quality ...
Carrizo, Carlos E. (Date of defense: 2019-09-20)
Massive amounts of information are created daily in commercial fields like earth observation, that must be downloaded to earth ground stations in the short time of a satellite pass. Today, much of the ...
Palma Lázgare, Israel Romualdo (Date of defense: 2011-10-24)
New and future telecommunication networks are and will be broadband type. The existing terrestrial and space radio communication infrastructures might be supplemented by new wireless networks that make ...
Nova Lavado, Enrique (Date of defense: 2013-07-22)
This thesis presents the development and assessment of imaging techniques in the millimeterwave (mmW) and terahertz frequency bands. In the first part of the thesis, the development of a 94 GHz passive ...
Agbemuko , Adedotun Jeremiah (Date of defense: 2019-11-08)
The proposals for large-scale deployment of renewable energy sources is leading to the need for more cross-border interconnections creating a pan-European power system, at the EU level. Such interconnections ...
Pablos Hernández, Miriam (Date of defense: 2016-10-03)
The first three of a series of new generation satellites operating at L-band microwave frequencies have been launch in the last decade. L-band is particularly sensitive to the presence of water content ...