Hazami, Zahra (Date of defense: 2020-01-29)
In Synchrotron Light Source facilities with high energy and low emittance electron beams different techniques for improving the quality of the synchrotron light for the users are applied. With this aim ...
Gallart Escolà, Dani (Date of defense: 2019-09-27)
Heating plasmas to a relevant fusion temperature is one of the key aspects of magnetically confined fusion plasmas. Radio frequency (RF) heating with electromagnetic waves in the ion cyclotron range of ...
Carreno-Luengo, Hugo (Date of defense: 2016-01-21)
Global Navigation Satellite Systems Reflectometry (GNSS-R) is a multi-static radar using navigation signals as signals of opportunity. It provides wide-swath and improved spatio-temporal sampling over ...
Guijarro Gamez, Grecia (Date of defense: 2020-12-21)
In this Thesis, we report a detailed study of the ground-state properties of a set of quantum few- and many-body systems by using Quantum Monte Carlo methods. First, we introduced the Variational Monte ...
Krishnakumar, Vrinda (Date of defense: 2022-09-29)
Persistent Scatterer interferometry (PSI) is a group of advanced differential interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) techniques used to measure and monitor terrain deformation. Sentinel-1 has ...
Xie, Chenyang (Date of defense: 2021-01-08)
Cu-based alloys are widely applied in corrosive environments. The improvement of the alloys' corrosion resistance will significantly reduce energy consumption and overexploitation of resources. To ...
Liu, Xiao (Date of defense: 2022-11-10)
(English) Snapshot positioning is the technique to determine the position of a Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) receiver using only a very brief interval of the received satellite signal. In ...
Escuain i Poole, Lara Sofia (Date of defense: 2019-03-28)
The brain is a complex organ whose activity spans multiple scales, both spatial and temporal. The computational unit of the brain is thought to be the neurone. At the microscopic level, neurones communicate ...
Ho, Chih-Hua (Date of defense: 2016-03-14)
Both experimental and numerical studies on Liquid Crystal (LC) infiltrated woodpile Photonic Crystal (PhC) are implemented in this thesis. The most well-known optical phenomenon of PhC is photonic ...
Mateos Villar, Manuel (Date of defense: 2022-11-08)
(English) The goal of air traffic flow and capacity management (ATFCM) is to ensure that airport and airspace capacity meet traffic demand while optimising traffic flows to avoid exceeding the available ...