Vidas, Luciana (Date of defense: 2019-05-02)
The physics of transition-metal oxides presents a challenge to our current understanding of condensed matter physics. The main difficulty arises from a competition between electron-electron and ...
Gieseler, Jan (Date of defense: 2014-02-03)
Nanotechnology was named one of the key enabling technologies by the European Commission and its tremendous impact was envisioned early by 20th century physicist R.Feynman in his now oft-quoted talk ...
Hernández García, David (Date of defense: 2014-10-23)
Un dels límits fonamentals que afecta l'eficiència de conversió en cèl·lules fotovoltaiques és la distribució espectral de la radiació solar. D'una banda, només els fotons amb energia superior al gap ...
Hauke, Philipp Hans-Jürgen (Date of defense: 2013-04-05)
Many outstanding problems in quantum physics, such as high-Tc superconductivity or quark confinement, are still - after decades of research - awaiting commonly accepted explanations. One reason is that ...
Farzam, Parisa (Date of defense: 2014-10-14)
Noninvasive measurement of hemodynamics at the microvascular level may have a great impact on oncology in clinics for diagnosis, therapy planning and monitoring, and, in preclinical studies. To this ...
Yao, Can (Date of defense: 2014-06-25)
Disordered media with refractive index variations can be found in the atmosphere, the ocean, and in many materials or biological tissues. Several technologies that make use of such random media, as image ...
Grün, Alexander (Date of defense: 2014-11-07)
In this thesis I investigate two methods for generating ultrashort laser pulses in spectral regions which are ordinarily difficult to achieve by the existing techniques. These pulses are specially ...
Mariano Juste, Marina (Date of defense: 2014-10-31)
Considering that the most abundant renewable energy source is the Sun, photovoltaic technology possesses one of the highest potentials to provide environmental benign and sustainable energy worldwide. ...
Huwer, Jan Henning (Date of defense: 2014-01-29)
One promising approach for future quantum networks is the combination of strings of trapped ions as quantum-information processors with entangled photon pairs produced by spontaneous parametric down ...
Grass, Tobias (Date of defense: 2013-04-23)
The present thesis studies a variety of cold atomic systems in artificial gauge fields. In the first part we focus on fractional quantum Hall effects, asking whether interesting topological states can ...