Arcos Gutiérrez, David (Date of defense: 2022-07-19)
Two-dimensional materials have a lot of applications in the electronic and photonic device design field, especially when they need to be flexible and transparent. In particular, high frequency applications, ...
Massicotte, Mathieu (Date of defense: 2017-09-05)
Understanding and improving how light is converted into electricity in materials is one of the central goals in the field of optoelectronics. This basic physical process lies at the heart of several ...
Schmidt, Peter, 1989- (Date of defense: 2019-04-16)
Transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) are semiconducting layered materials that can be isolated up to the limit of a single atomic layer. Next to graphene, they are some of the most intensively studied ...
Laparra Cuervo, Lara (Date of defense: 2018-03-28)
The arrival of super-resolution techniques has driven researchers to explore biological areas that were unreachable before. Such techniques not only allowed the improvement of spatial resolution in ...
Raventós Ribera, David (Date of defense: 2019-04-15)
Understand and tame complex quantum mechanical systems to build quantum technologies is one of the most important scientific endeavour nowadays. In this effort, Atomic, molecular and Optical systems ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Vispa, Alessandro (Date of defense: 2016-11-24)
Disordered systems are ubiquitous in nature and their study is complicated and often leads to controversial results. In any case, the important role of such systems in science and technological applications ...