Noyan, Mehmet Alican (Date of defense: 2017-06-23)
Liquid and solid repellent surfaces are key to many industries. For example, construction industry benefits from self-cleaning windows, cements, paints, roof tiles, and corrosion resistant surfaces, ...
Camphausen, Robin (Date of defense: 2023-04-12)
(English) Entangled photon pairs can enhance optical imaging capabilities. Phase imaging allows detecting fine detail of transparent samples without potentially invasive fluorescent labelling, and here ...
Bareza, Nestor Jr. (Date of defense: 2022-11-07)
(English) Mid-infrared (mid-IR) spectroscopy in the wavelength region between 2 and 20 µm is a powerful technique to identify vibrational absorption signatures of molecules, finding in this way extensive ...
Mkhitaryan, Vahagn (Date of defense: 2017-09-29)
Photonics is a key enabling technology for many applications ranging from communications to energy and medicine. Its success is largely relying on our capability to appropriately control light in optical ...
Hussain, Rubaiya (Date of defense: 2022-07-01)
The focus of this thesis is on the design, development and validation of two novel photonic sensors for the detection and characterisation of industrial and biological samples. The first one is a PSA ...
Abellán Sánchez, Carlos (Date of defense: 2018-06-19)
Randomness is one of the most intriguing, inspiring and debated topics in the history of the world. It appears every time we wonder about our existence, about the way we are, e.g. Do we have free will? ...
Terborg, Roland A. (Date of defense: 2018-10-19)
As health systems fight against epidemics and infectious diseases, new forms of diagnostics need to be developed in order to meet the growing demand for services, often in locations without the necessary ...
Marchena Martín-Francés, Miriam (Date of defense: 2018-06-14)
The combination of unique properties -high electrical mobility, thermal conductivity, transparency and mechanical flexibility- make graphene promising for a wide variety of applications, including ...
Gopalan, Kavitha Kalavoor (Date of defense: 2018-10-22)
The mid-infrared (mid-IR) spectral region, with wavelengths between 3 and 15 µm, is known for a wide range of applications ranging from spectroscopic sensing to thermal imaging. However, despite the ...
Rudé Moreno, Miquel (Date of defense: 2016-12-01)
Photonic devices are key to implement future communication and information technologies. Their success is largely determined by our capability to appropriately control light in such devices, especially ...