López Conesa, Lluís (Date of defense: 2015-12-18)
Being able to directly relate the final properties with the intimate structure provides a unique insight into the functionality of materials and devices, especially when compared to the necessarily ...
Eljarrat Ascunce, Alberto (Date of defense: 2015-10-21)
This thesis explores the analytical capabilities of low-loss electron energy loss spectroscopy (EELS), applied to disentangle the intimate configuration of advanced semiconductor heterostructures. Modern ...
Zaffino, Rosa Letizia (Date of defense: 2015-11-11)
The search for analytical tools suitable for wide-scale application of DNA analysis is an hot research topic, although thanks to well-established microarray based technology, analysis of DNA sequences ...
Pairó Castiñeira, Erola (Date of defense: 2015-07-21)
Gene expression is a complex and highly regulated process. Most of the regulation is controlled by short DNA sequences that can be bound by some proteins called transcription factors (TF). Binding to ...
Aruppukottai Muruga Bhupathi, Saranya (Date of defense: 2015-12-04)
Fuel cells are one of the promising technology at present to meet the growing demand of clean energy and technology. Among the different varieties of fuel cells, Solid Oxide Fuel Cell (SOFC) research ...
Alonso Casanovas, Oscar (Date of defense: 2012-04-27)
The significant development in medical diagnostics and imaging has brought up a lot of new wireless capsule endoscopes coming to health care market. The capsule has been able to minimize patient discomfort ...
Esteban i Ferrer, Daniel (Date of defense: 2014-11-25)
The present thesis is included in the field of nanobioelectricity. That is, understanding the electrical properties of biological specimens at the nanoscale (< 200 nm). To do so we used an electrical ...
Gadea, Gerard (Date of defense: 2017-09-22)
Silicon and silicon-germanium nanostructures were grown, integrated, optimized and characterized for their application in thermoelectric generation. Specifically two kinds of nanostructures were worked: ...
Hoffmann, Martin W. G. (Date of defense: 2015-01-19)
Les tecnologies de sensors de gas basades en semiconductors presenten limitacions importants de selectivitat i consum d'energia. Per tant, esdevé necessari l’assaig de nous conceptes de dispositius ...