High-pressure optical and vibrational properties of InN and InGaN 

    Oliva Vidal, Robert (Date of defense: 2016-10-11)

    This thesis is devoted to the study of the optical and vibrational properties of indium nitride (InN) and indium gallium nitride (InGaN) at room and high-pressure conditions. For this purpose, we have employed spectroscopic ...

    Gas sensors based on carbon nanofibers: a low power consumption approach 

    Monereo Cuscó, Oriol (Date of defense: 2016-10-20)

    Gas sensors can be found in many activities ranging from environment protection, risk prevention, agriculture and even in food, chemical, and petrochemical industries. There exist different technologies for gas sensors ...

    Inkjet and screen printing for electronic applications 

    Medina Rodríguez, Beatriz (Date of defense: 2016-11-04)

    Printed electronics (PE) is a set of printing methods used to create electrical devices on various substrates. Printing typically uses common printing equipment suitable for defining patterns on material, such as screen ...

    Caracterización eléctrica de muestras biológicas con resonadores de cuarzo como nanosensores 

    Botaya Turón, Luis (Date of defense: 2016-11-17)

    La caracterización eléctrica local a escala nanométrica cobra un rol esencial en diversos campos de la biología. La caracterización eléctrica de muestras biológicas proporciona una visión sobre diferentes aspectos de ...

    Organ-on-a-chip microfluidic devices mimicking human splenic functions 

    Rigat Brugarolas, Luis Guillermo (Date of defense: 2016-12-13)

    El progreso en el área de la microfluídica y en las metodologías de cultivo celular in vitro está posibilitando el desarrollo de sofisticados dispositivos que tienen como finalidad tratar de imitar algunas de las funciones ...

    New Fabrication Methodologies for the Development of Low Power Gas Sensors Based on Semiconducting Nanowires 

    Samà Monsonís, Jordi (Date of defense: 2016-12-15)

    The air and environment quality is, nowadays, one of the main political concerns of the governmental institutions. Suitable gas detection is nowadays an important requirement, which is provided by gas sensors. Metal oxide ...

    Hygroscopic properties of single bacterial cells and endospores studied by Electrostatic Force Microscopy 

    Van Der Hofstadt Serrano, Marc (Date of defense: 2016-12-21)

    The large abundance of bacterial growth niches provide a rich diversity of bacterial traits. These are usually characterized using traditional microbiology research tools, and newer characterization techniques (which focus ...

    Innovation on Nanoscience: Processes and Ecosystems of Innovation with a multi-KET approach to foster Technology Transfer and Commercialization of Nanotechnologies in the Field of Healthcare 

    Páez Avilés, Cristina (Date of defense: 2017-02-20)

    Transferring nanotechnology into marketable products and services is still considered a major challenge. In Europe, this issue has been identified as a weakness, not only for nanotechnology, but also for the other five Key ...

    Production of Solar Fuels by Photoelectrochemical Conversion of Carbon Dioxide 

    Irtem, Ibrahim Erdem (Date of defense: 2017-05-04)

    Growing global emission of carbon dioxide gas (CO2) reflects the world’s energy dependence on fossil fuels. The conversion of CO2 emission into value-added products, like fuels completes a circular CO2 economy which ...

    Desarrollo de una tarjeta RFID flexible con capacidades sensoras para aplicaciones en logística de alimentación 

    Palacio Bonet, Francisco (Date of defense: 2017-07-03)

    En el momento de la realización de esta tesis doctoral, sobre el año 2004, la tecnología RFID empezaba a crecer, básicamente, gracias a la mejora en el control de stocks de los almacenes que implicaba posibilidad de ...

    Inkjet-Printed Flexible Electronic Devices: from High-k Capacitors to h-BN/Graphene Thin Film Transistors 

    Vescio, Giovanni (Date of defense: 2017-07-04)

    The soaring global demand for flexible, wearable and transparent devices has been driven by the advent of the Internet-of-Things (IoT), where smart electronic objects are expected to be, at anytime and everywhere, aware ...

    Engineering poly (ethylene glycol) diacrylate-based microstructures to develop an in vitro model of small intestinal epithelium 

    Garcia Castaño, Albert (Date of defense: 2017-07-11)

    Most of the current in vitro cell culture models do not reproduce the anatomy of tissues and physiological behavior of cells in vivo and provide misleading results when compared to the real tissue. Microfabrication ...

    Heterogeneous Integration of RF and Microwave Systems Using Multi-layer Low-Temperature Co-fired Ceramics Technology 

    Ahyoune, Saiyd (Date of defense: 2017-07-13)

    The aim of this work is the development of a modelling methodology for the fast analysis of non-radiative multilayer RF passive components without compromising solution accuracy. Instead of following a compact model approach, ...

    Bottom-up Engineering of Thermoelectric Nanomaterials and Devices from Solution-Processed Nanoparticle Building Blocks 

    Ortega Torres, Silvia (Date of defense: 2017-07-20)

    In the world around us, it is easy to think in different situations in which there are temperature gradients available. These could be converted into a great source of energy if using the proper technology. Thermoelectric ...

    Desarrollo de aptasensores para la detección de bacterias enteropatógenas 

    Sebastián Ávila, José Luis (Date of defense: 2017-10-05)

    El objetivo general de esta tesis doctoral fue el desarrollo de biosensores basados en aptámeros para la detección de bacterias enteropatógenas. Para ello se estudiaron diferentes estrategias de detección gracias a las ...

    On the experimental and theoretical studies of ZnO precursors: towards Green Chemistry 

    Gómez Núñez, Alberto (Date of defense: 2018-02-08)

    Although an extensive number of investigators, during the arise of this printed materials technology, were devoted to make very interesting discoveries concerning the most used sol-gel precursor to thermally produce ZnO, ...

    Data processing for Life Sciences measurements with hyphenated Gas Chromatography-Ion Mobility Spectrometry 

    Oller Moreno, Sergio (Date of defense: 2018-03-06)

    Recent progress in analytical chemistry instrumentation has increased the amount of data available for analysis. This progress has been encompassed by computational improvements, that have enabled new possibilities to ...

    Antenna Design and Characterization for Biomedical Applications 

    Garcia Miquel, Aleix (Date of defense: 2018-06-15)

    The use of radiofrequency in biomedical devices is taking on increasing significance due to its contributions to the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of diseases, either for minimally invasive remote monitoring of ...

    VIPPIX: A readout ASIC for the next generation of human brain PET scanners 

    Macías Montero, José Gabriel (Date of defense: 2018-06-26)

    Positron emission tomography (PET) is a molecular imaging technique used for several decades in nuclear medicine that provides precise physiological information of the human body, what is crucial in oncology, cardiology, ...

    Metal Oxides for Optoelectronic and Resistive Switching Applications 

    Blázquez Gómez, Josep Oriol (Date of defense: 2018-12-13)

    This Thesis has been focused on the fabrication and characterization of different CMOS- compatible materials in order to determine both their electro-optical and resistive switching properties. Basically, two materials ...