Bernardello, Matteo (Date of defense: 2022-06-14)
The observation of biological processes in their native environments is of critical importance for life science. While substantial information can be derived from the examination of in-vitro biological ...
Silva, Francisco José Maia da (Date of defense: 2016-02-29)
Devising new tools that expand our capabilities to sense and manipulate the world enables much of the scientific and technological progress around us. For example, light is increasingly more important ...
Schwender, Jill (Date of defense: 2018-11-12)
In recent years, carbon nanotube and graphene mechanical resonators have attracted considerable attention because of their unique properties. Their high resonance frequencies, high quality factors and ...
Sanz Sánchez, Julio (Date of defense: 2020-02-10)
This thesis reports the experimental study of two-component Bose-Einstein condensates with tunable interactions, which are exploited as a platform to perform quantum simulation of many-body quantum ...
Wang, Bingxia (Date of defense: 2017-10-10)
The PhD project, entitled "Second harmonic generation in disordered nonlinear crystals: application to ultra-short laser pulse characterization", is devoted to the study of second harmonic generation ...
Vidas, Luciana (Date of defense: 2019-05-02)
The physics of transition-metal oxides presents a challenge to our current understanding of condensed matter physics. The main difficulty arises from a competition between electron-electron and ...
Rodríguez Suñé, Laura (Date of defense: 2023-06-19)
(English) The use of semiconductors, metals, or ordinary dielectrics in the process of fabrication of nanodevices is at the front edge of nowadays technology. In the last decade an impressive technological ...
Martínez Cercós, Daniel (Date of defense: 2023-06-21)
(English) There is currently significant scientific and technological interest in ultrathin materials, with at least one dimension in the nm range or even smaller, since they possess features not ...
Fernández Esteberena, Pablo Ricardo (Date of defense: 2023-09-27)
(English) Near-infrared diffuse optical spectroscopy (DOS) techniques are capable of non-invasive measurement of microvascular hemodynamic parameters of deep tissues (>1 cm penetration). One important ...
Heller, Lukas (Date of defense: 2023-11-06)
(English) Quantum memories are devices that are able to store photonic quantum states and entanglement. Future quantum networks, which could enhance cybersecurity through quantum key distribution, improve ...