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, ...
Badarla, Venkata Ramaiah (Date of defense: 2014-10-31)
In this thesis, we have demonstrated various ultrafast optical parametric oscillators (OPOs) based on different nonlinear media. The thesis consists of OPO systems, novel techniques, designs, and concepts ...
Liu, Quan (Date of defense: 2018-03-23)
Solution-processed thin film solar cells emerged as very promising photovoltaic technologies suitable for a low cost roll-to-roll upscale production. Such thin film character also ensures lightweight ...
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 ...
Ortega. M, María A. (Date of defense: 2015-11-11)
Nowadays cancer is a devastating illness, so its early diagnosis could represent a powerful advantage in the struggle to eradicate it. The most recent technologies allowed the development of sensing ...
Rosales Guzmán, Carmelo G. (Date of defense: 2015-05-22)
Structured light beams, this is, beams whose phase changes from point to point in the transverse plane, provides with an alternative tool to search for new applications, or simply to expand the ...
Kramarenko, Mariia (Date of defense: 2023-03-24)
(English) To mitigate the energy and climate crisis we are already facing and address the increasing energy consumption, it is essential to foster energy transition strategies. The energy transition ...
Wang, Yongjie (Date of defense: 2023-02-23)
(English) Climate change and global energy demand urge the development of renewable energy sources for worldwide power supply. Photovoltaic devices that convert solar energy directly into electricity ...
Ferreira, Catarina Gonçalves (Date of defense: 2023-09-27)
(English) To mitigate the present environmental crisis, caused by the excessive use of fossil fuels and associated release of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, it is necessary to significantly reduce ...