Escudero López, Manuel (Date of defense: 2020-05-22)
In the last decades, semiconductor industry has fostered a fast downscale in technology, propelling the large scale integration of CMOS-based systems. The benefits in miniaturization are numerous, ...
Momeneh, Arash (Date of defense: 2016-09-09)
In recent years, contactless energy transfer systems have been developed and investigated widely. As evident, the transfer energy is performed without physical connection. This technology is classified ...
Giró i Nieto, Xavier (Date of defense: 2012-05-31)
This thesis addresses the problem of visual object retrieval, where a user formulates a query to an image database by providing one or multiple examples of an object of interest. The presented techniques ...
Filbà Martínez, Àlber (Date of defense: 2017-07-21)
Galvanically-isolated bidirectional dc-dc converters (IBDCs) have recently received more attention due to its increasing use in systems requiring energy transfer between two dc networks in both directions, ...
Yazdani, Arash (Date of defense: 2016-07-07)
Recent developments in optical communication systems have increased the performance of optical networks. Low attenuation fiber optics, high spectral purity lasers and optical amplifiers, among others, ...
Acomovic, Srdjan S. (Date of defense: 2012-10-30)
In recent times, metallic nanoparticle plasmonics coupled with applications towards biosensing has gathered momentum to the point where commercial R&D are investing large resources in developing the ...
Bartoli, Andrea (Date of defense: 2013-06-18)
Nowadays, the great diffusion of advanced devices, such as smart-phones, has shown that there is a growing trend to rely on new technologies to generate and/or support progress; the society is clearly ...
Ahmadi Zeidabadi, Maziar (Date of defense: 2016-07-20)
The interest on microfluidic systems based on electrowetting-on-dielectric (EWOD) and the miniaturization of such integrated devices, has increased significantly mainly due to the advent of mass market ...
Wang, Teng (Date of defense: 2020-12-17)
This PhD thesis provides a fast engineering approach to the design of digital predistortion (DPD) linearizers from several perspectives: i) enhancing the off-line training performance of open-loop DPD, ...
García Sánchez, Tomás (Date of defense: 2015-04-24)
The present PhD dissertation is focused on the design and implementation of a microelectrode system capable of performing electroporation and electrical impedance measurements to adherent cell monolayers ...