Robert Sanxis, Francesc Josep (Date of defense: 2016-01-29)
Learning specific knowledge and developing cross-curricular competencies under the new frame of the European Higher Education Area (EHEA), is a problem not yet solved by teaching practices based on ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
Pérez Delgado, Raúl (Date of defense: 2016-09-09)
Electrical energy generation systems based on renewable energy sources have been promoted in recent years. The introduction of these systems has changed the centralized energy model to become a distributed ...
García Leyva, Lancelot (Date of defense: 2016-01-19)
In future scenarios of low power and low voltage the electronic systems will present a high error ratio or voltage fluctuations due to dramatically signal to noise ratio. These transient errors can ...
Gerling Sarabia, Luis Guillermo (Date of defense: 2017-11-15)
Crystalline silicon (c-Si) solar cells can be considered a highly industrialized and mature product with a record conversion efficiency of 26.6%, not far from the practical limit of 29.4% (for single ...
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 ...
Ghorbani, Hamidreza (Date of defense: 2019-09-18)
Insulated gate bipolar transistor (IGBT) power semiconductors are widely employed in industrial applications. This power switch capability in high voltage blocking and high current-carrying has expanded ...
Masmitjà Rusiñol, Gerard (Date of defense: 2019-09-25)
The photovoltaic industry is mainly dominated by crystalline silicon (c-Si) solar cells, in which contact selectivity is usually achieved by doping the wafer surfaces with phosphorous (n+) and boron ...