Seri, Alessando (Date of defense: 2019-07-03)
Quantum memories (QMs) for light represent a fundamental ingredient for the development of a quantum internet. Among other applications, they are a building block for the distribution of entanglement ...
Liu, Quan (Date of defense: 2018-03-23)
Solution-processed thin film solar cells emerged as very promising photovoltaic technologies suitable for a low cost roll-to-roll upscale production. Such thin film character also ensures lightweight ...
Weber, Peter (Date of defense: 2016-12-02)
In recent years, mechanical resonators based on graphene have attracted considerable interest as nanoelectromechanical systems (NEMS). Graphene NEMSs allow for exceptional properties such as high ...
Maring, Nicolas (Date of defense: 2018-09-13)
The ability to control the optical frequency of quantum state carriers (i.e. photons) is an important functionality for future quantum networks. It allows all matter quantum systems - nodes of the network ...
Valverde Morales, Victor (Date of defense: 2016-04-08)
Atmospheric pollution causes large impacts on human health and societal economic interests and it is a threat for the ecosystems and the climate of the Earth. Improving the understanding of pollution ...
Miró Jané, Arnau (Date of defense: 2019-06-19)
Synthetic jets are produced by the oscillatory movement of a membrane inside a cavity, causing fluid to enter and leave through a small orifice. This results in a net jet that is able to transfer kinetic ...
Jedynak, Maciej (Date of defense: 2017-03-27)
The brain is known to operate under the constant influence of noise arising from a variety of sources. It also organises its activity into rhythms spanning multiple frequency bands. These rhythms originate ...
Coop, Simon (Date of defense: 2018-09-06)
This thesis reports on theory and results from two experiments related to nonlinear behaviour in ensembles of optically-trapped ultracold atoms. The first experiment, performed at ICFO in Barcelona, ...
Buades, Bárbara (Date of defense: 2018-07-31)
Attoscience aims to study electron dynamics in matter with unprecedented temporal resolution by using the shortest pulses generated on Earth. Currently, such resolution is only provided by sources that ...
Neumeier, Lukas (Date of defense: 2018-07-02)
In everyday life the impact of light on the motion of mechanical objects is negligible. However, modern experiments making use of high quality optical resonators are able to observe significant effects ...