Cabello Fusarés, Maria (Date of defense: 2019-12-02)
Although silicon (Si) is used in most current commercial power semiconductor components, Si capabilities are insufficient for new energy conversion requirements. Some of its important limitations are ...
Bojovic, Biljana (Date of defense: 2022-01-12)
This PhD thesis has the characteristic to span over a long time because while working on it, I was working as a research engineer at CTTC with highly demanding development duties. This has delayed the ...
Molina Garcia, Marc-Manel (Date of defense: 2016-01-29)
La integració de transceptors per comunicacions de radiofreqüència en CMOS pot quedar seriosament limitada per la interacció entre els seus blocs, arribant a desaconsellar la utilització de un únic dau ...
Zurita Millán, Daniel (Date of defense: 2017-09-08)
Ensuring reliability and robustness of operation is one of the main concerns in industrial anufacturing processes , dueto the ever-increasing demand for improvements over the cost and quality ofthe ...
Masmitjà i Rusinyol, Ivan (Date of defense: 2020-01-21)
Marine ecological research related to the increasing importance which the fisheries sector has reached so far, new methods and tools to study the biological components of our oceans are needed. The ...
Pallarés Valls, Oriol (Date of defense: 2016-11-30)
This thesis deals with the development of a time synchronization algorithm for underwater sensor networks. The ease of deployment and maintenance of wireless networks leaded this research to the use of ...
Martínez Padró, Enoc (Date of defense: 2021-07-09)
There has always been background sound in the oceans due to natural factors. However, since the first hydrophone deployments at mid-20th century, measured ocean sound levels have been steadily rising ...
Carandell Widmer, Matias (Date of defense: 2022-04-28)
Oceanographic sensor platforms provide biological and meteorological data to help understand changes in marine environment and help to preserve it. Lagrangian drifters are autonomous passive floating ...
Galindo Guarch, Francisco Javier (Date of defense: 2021-07-01)
In Particle Accelerators, the Low-Level RF (LLRF) is the control system of the RF, and in the end, of the purpose of the machine, that is the energy transfer and acceleration of particles. It implements ...
Picas Prat, Ricard (Date of defense: 2016-12-22)
The integration of renewable energy sources in the electrical grid is reducing our dependence on fossil fuels. However, to ensure feasibility and reliability of distributed energy generation, more ...