García Guirado, Jose María (Date of defense: 2018-10-30)
The race for fast and small that drives nowadays society has also reached the field of biosensing. Looking for efficient and cost effective biosensors for applications including screening and treatment ...
Singh, Anshuman (Date of defense: 2017-11-11)
Optical nanoantennas confine light on the nanoscale, enabling strong light-matter interactions with potential for ultra-compact optical devices. Apart from the direct applications in optical nanoscopy ...
Distante, Emanuele (Date of defense: 2017-03-24)
Nonlinear optics at the single-photon level enables deterministic photonphoton interaction, a long-standing goal in quantum photonics science. Besides its implication in fundamental aspects of physics, ...
Beian, Mussie (Date of defense: 2016-06-22)
Spatially indirect excitons, being composite bosons, are attractive candidates to explore correlated many-body systems. They possess an inherent large electric dipole, a four-fold spin manifold, and can ...
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 ...
Mestres Junqué, Pau (Date of defense: 2017-09-07)
Optical trapping and manipulation have emerged as powerful tools to investigate single microscopic objects in a controlled environment. Using the momentum carried by light, forces can be exerted to ...
Lucivero, Vito Giovanni (Date of defense: 2016-10-14)
Nowadays there is a considerable progress in optical magnetometry and spin noise spectroscopy, which use magnetically-sensitive atomic ensembles and optical read-out, approaching the limits set by quantum ...
Sridhar, Susmita (Date of defense: 2016-10-05)
Polarization gating imaging is a popular and widely used imaging technique in biomedical optics to sense tissues, deeper volumes, and also selectively probe sub-superficial volumes. Due to the ...
Kizildag, Deniz (Date of defense: 2016-02-08)
The work carried out in the framework of the present thesis aims at shedding light into the complex phenomena involved in turbulent water-filled cavities, questioning the validity of the well-established ...
Morales Garoffolo, Antonia (Date of defense: 2016-03-08)
Core-collapse supernovae (CC-SNe) explosions represent the final demise of massive stars. Among the various types, there is a group of relatively infrequent CC-SNe termed type IIb, which appear to be ...