Hussain, Rubaiya (Date of defense: 2022-07-01)
The focus of this thesis is on the design, development and validation of two novel photonic sensors for the detection and characterisation of industrial and biological samples. The first one is a PSA ...
De Bonis, Sergio Lucio (Date of defense: 2020-02-06)
Carbon nanotube (CNT) mechanical resonators are unique systems because they combine remarkable mechanical properties with rich charge transport characteristics. Thanks to their intrinsically low-dimensional ...
González Cuadra, Daniel (Date of defense: 2020-12-11)
The outstanding progress achieved in the last decades to isolate and manipulate individual quantum systems has revolutionized the way in which quantum many-body phenomena, appearing across Nature's ...
Beltrán González, Martí (Date of defense: 2021-01-22)
Materials and methods used in the production of modernist (late 19th and early 20th century) stained glass from the city of Barcelona with special regards to the degradation mechanisms of enamels, ...
Urgell Flores, Carlos (Date of defense: 2021-03-30)
Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) have attracted the attention of the scientific community since their discovery in the 90s. They are an excellent material for the development of research fields as diverse as ...
Amil Marletti, Pablo (Date of defense: 2020-02-11)
This thesis work presents novel methods for the analysis and classification of medical images and, more generally, complex data. First, an unsupervised machine learning method is proposed to order ...
Raissi, Zahra (Date of defense: 2020-10-08)
Studying entanglement is essential for our understanding of such diverse areas as high-energy physics, condensed matter physics, and quantum optics. Moreover, entanglement allows us to surpass classical ...
Di Palo, Nicola (Date of defense: 2020-03-26)
Understanding most of the physical and chemical phenomena determining the world around us requires the possibility to interrogate their main characters on their natural scale in space and time. The ...
Bordacchini, Ivan (Date of defense: 2020-10-30)
Since the pioneering work of Fujishima and Honda on titanium dioxide, TiO2, for the electrochemical photolysis of water under ultraviolet (UV) irradiation, semiconductor-based photocatalysis and ...
Selim, Hossam (Date of defense: 2020-07-21)
This PhD thesis is devoted to the design, development and implementation of a non-contact hybrid non-destructive testing (NDT) method applied to the analysis of metallic objects that contain embedded ...