Ghosh, Dhriti Sundar (Date of defense: 2012-10-11)
Transparent electrodes (TEs) are the essential elements of many optoelectronic devices such as solar cells, touch screens, organic LEDs, and LCDs. Consequently demand for TEs is growing very steeply and ...
Sosa Costa, Alberto (Date of defense: 2017-03-02)
The migration of leukocytes from the blood stream to sites of injury and infection in the extravascular tissues is fundamental for the immune response. Two of the main receptors mediating this process ...
Tieleman, Olivier (Date of defense: 2013-03-08)
This thesis contains theoretical research on ultracold quantum gases in spatially periodic potentials, featuring high-frequency periodic driving, long-range interactions, or both. The largest part ...
Borovkova, Olga (Date of defense: 2013-10-11)
Optical solitons provide unique opportunities for the control of light‐bylight. Today, the field of soliton formation in natural materials is mature, as the main properties of the possible soliton ...
Randhawa, Sukanya (Date of defense: 2012-12-04)
Plasmonics nanostructures are becoming remarkably important as tools towards manipulating photons at the nanoscale. They are poised to revolutionize a wide range of applications ranging from integrated ...
Raj, Saurabh (Date of defense: 2012-11-05)
This thesis is devoted to the study of mechanochemistry of single cells and single biomolecules. Mechanochemistry relates to the association of mechanical and chemical occurrence at the molecular level. ...
Zamora, Alejandro (Date of defense: 2014-12-15)
The study of ultracold atoms constitutes one of the hottest areas of atomic, molecular, and optical physics and quantum optics. The experimental and theoretical achievements in the last three decades ...
González Curto, Alberto (Date of defense: 2013-07-16)
The emission of light is at the heart of both fundamental science and technological applications. At its origin lie electronic transitions in nanoscale materials such as molecules, atoms and semiconductors. ...
Svozilík, Jiŕí (Date of defense: 2014-10-17)
Non-classical correlations, usually referred as entanglement, are ones of the most studied and discussed features of Quantum Mechanics, since the initial introduction of the concept in the decade of ...
Morales Dalmau, Jordi (Date of defense: 2019-02-15)
Suspensions of gold nanorods (GNRs) are emerging as potential drugs to address some of the limitations in traditional biomedical sensing,imaging and therapy. They are inorganic nanoparticles with good ...