López Palma, Manuel (Date of defense: 2020-10-23)
In this work, a new method is presented to quantify the attention paid by people to the different objects in their environment. The new metric models the eye to determine the attention given 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, ...
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 ...
Cirera Balcells, Josep (Date of defense: 2020-09-18)
Nowadays, energy management has gained attention due to the constant increment of energy consumption in industry and the pollution problems that this fact supposes. On this subject, one of the main ...
Escudero López, Manuel (Date of defense: 2020-05-22)
In the last decades, semiconductor industry has fostered a fast downscale in technology, propelling the large scale integration of CMOS-based systems. The benefits in miniaturization are numerous, ...
Sánchez Chiva, Josep Maria (Date of defense: 2020-03-05)
In the last decades, sensing capabilities of martphones have greatly improved since the early mobile phones of the 90’s. Moreover, wearables and the automotive industry require increasing electronics ...
Paredes Camacho, Alejandro (Date of defense: 2020-07-17)
The trend in the development of power converters is focused on efficient systems with high power density, reliability and low cost. The challenges to cover the new power converters requirements are ...
Mateu Mateus, Marc (Date of defense: 2020-12-01)
Due to the growing popularity of video-based methods for physiological signal measurement, and taking into account the technological advancements of these type of devices, this work proposes a series ...