Akgul, M. Zafer (Date of defense: 2021-02-11)
Due to the continuously increasing energy demand and the environmental concerns about climate changes raised by international community, alternative energy resources have been put under intense investigation ...
Hesp, Niels Caspar Herman (Date of defense: 2021-10-20)
Nano-optics studies the behaviour of light on the nanoscale. In particular, it probes the interaction of light with objects, often of nanometre-size, and reveals fine details of the material's optical ...
Guenther, Nils Eric (Date of defense: 2021-09-08)
At sufficiently low temperatures, fluids of bosonic particles may undergo a phase transition, below which a Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) forms. The BEC is one of the most fundamental concepts in ...
Saemisch, Lisa (Date of defense: 2021-04-15)
The interaction of light and matter is of crucial importance in fundamental science as well as in high-end technology. Ultimately, this concerns the interaction between a photon and a single quantum ...
Ciancico, Carlotta (Date of defense: 2021-12-09)
Quantum nanophotonics aims at studying the interaction between matter and single photons at the nanoscale. Nanoscopic solid state light sources can be placed in near proximity to other photonic elements ...
Urgell Flores, Carlos (Date of defense: 2021-03-30)
Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) have attracted the attention of the scientific community since their discovery in the 90s. They are an excellent material for the development of research fields as diverse as ...
Tepsic, Slaven (Date of defense: 2021-07-07)
Mechanical resonators based on low dimensional materials have attracted a lot of attention due to their remarkable properties. Their ultra-low mass and high Q factors make them exceptional sensors, ...
Padrón Brito, María Auxiliadora (Date of defense: 2021-04-08)
Photons are good candidates for carrying quantum information because they are very stable particles: they interact weakly with the medium and barely with each other. However, this has drawbacks when ...
Palombo Blascetta, Nicola (Date of defense: 2021-03-24)
The study of light-matter interaction at the nanoscale is a very promising field of research, providing the possibility to manipulate the interaction with single quantum systems like single atoms, ...
De Santis, Dario (Date of defense: 2021-06-22)
The formulation of quantum physics stands among the most revolutionary theories of the twentieth century. During the first decades of this century, many phenomena concerning the microscopic world were ...