Repecho del Corral, Víctor (Date of defense: 2018-02-21)
The application of the sliding mode control in power converters has a well-known inconvenient from the practical point of view, which is to obtain fixed switching frequency implementations. This thesis ...
Garnica López, Miguel Andrés (Date of defense: 2019-01-11)
The present doctoral thesis focuses on designing control schemes for three-phase three-wire voltage-sourced inverters connected to the grid under voltage disturbances. The research recognizes the ...
Araguz López, Carles (Date of defense: 2019-12-05)
Satellite imagery has become an essential resource for environmental, humanitarian, and industrial endeavours. As a means to satisfy the requirements of new applications and user needs, novel Earth ...
Ovejas Benedicto, Victòria Júlia (Date of defense: 2017-11-24)
In recent years, portable applications have experienced an exponential growth and consequently, the demand of batteries has increased accordingly. It is widely known, though, that the performance of ...
Jin, Chen (Date of defense: 2018-10-31)
This thesis contributes to the fabrication technology of c-Si solar cells on thin substrates based on Interdigitated Back-Contacted (IBC) structures. The potential of this structure to obtain high ...
Valero Pérez, Mario Miguel (Date of defense: 2019-10-30)
Forest fires are natural phenomena essential for ecosystem balance. However, their impact on society is increasing. Emergency managers are facing unprecedented crises producing massive evacuations, ...
Gomez Cid-Fuentes, Raül (Date of defense: 2016-07-22)
Powering wireless sensors has become a key challenge to enable the Internet of Things vision. A common approach to achieve this is to use Energy Harvesting. By means of this technology, sensors have ...
Sala Cardoso, Enric (Date of defense: 2019-12-16)
The efficacy of the energy management systems at dealing with energy consumption in buildings has been a topic with a growing interest in recent years due to the ever-increasing global energy demand and ...
Véliz Noboa, Bremnen Marino (Date of defense: 2020-01-30)
This work develops a novel capacitor device based on the use of nanotechnology. The device starts from the exiting metal-insulator-metal (MIM) concept, but instead of a continuous insulator layer, ...
Kowalski, Lukasz (Date of defense: 2016-01-22)
The thermal anemometry is a method which allows to estimate wind magnitude be the mean of measuring heat transfer to the ambient in a forced convection process. For Earth's atmosphere condition, this ...