López Mariño, Simón (Date of defense: 2016-04-22)
The present thesis focuses on the promising semiconductor material kesterite, Cu2ZnSn(S,Se)4, known as CZTS(e), which is used in the second generation of solar cells, generally known as thin film ...
Rey López, Juan Manuel (Date of defense: 2016-07-16)
The present doctoral thesis is focused on the analysis and design of control strategies for the secondary control layer of islanded AC microgrids without the use of communications. The work is submitted ...
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 ...
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 ...
Florentín, Matthieu (Date of defense: 2016-05-20)
Silicon (Si) power device’ technologies have reached a high maturity level, but current limitations on mechanic, temperature operation and electric performances require to investigate other semiconductor ...
Molina Garcia, Marc-Manel (Date of defense: 2016-01-29)
La integració de transceptors per comunicacions de radiofreqüència en CMOS pot quedar seriosament limitada per la interacció entre els seus blocs, arribant a desaconsellar la utilització de un únic dau ...
Pallarés Valls, Oriol (Date of defense: 2016-11-30)
This thesis deals with the development of a time synchronization algorithm for underwater sensor networks. The ease of deployment and maintenance of wireless networks leaded this research to the use of ...
Picas Prat, Ricard (Date of defense: 2016-12-22)
The integration of renewable energy sources in the electrical grid is reducing our dependence on fossil fuels. However, to ensure feasibility and reliability of distributed energy generation, more ...
Arcos Avilés, Diego Gustavo (Date of defense: 2016-06-13)
The environmental and economic benefits related to the reduction of both carbon dioxide emission and transmission losses have made distributed renewable generation systems became a competitive solution ...
Rillo Moral, Francesc (Date of defense: 2016-05-12)
The composting process is Nature's way of recycling organic wastes with a good quality organic fertilizer as a result. This process, though, needs of a thoroughly monitoring of temperature and humidity ...