The efficient interaction of photons with single quantum emitters like nitrogen vacancy (NV) centres is essential for the elaboration of future integrated quantum optical devices. A promising strategy towards this goal ...

This work treats in depth the possibility and restrictions of making antennas in order to communicate the cores of a massive multicore processor. Since these must be commensurable with the processor, we will perform ...

Electrowetting technology, known since more than 100 years, just recently was successfully applied for the fabrication of devices such as pixels, liquid lenses and µTas (micro total analysis systems). Some of those devices ...

Dielectric/Metal/Dielectric structures using Transition Metal Oxides (TMOs) as a dielectric layer and very thin-film layers of metal will be fabricated and their opto-electrical properties evaluated. In particular, ...

Humans have lived hand in hand with light since the beginning of time. The more the knowledge and technology advances, the more discoveries and applications involving electromagnetic waves are found and created. This thesis ...

Research in photovoltaic devices is focusing towards cost-effective technologies to compete with traditional energy sources. In this sense, silicon heterojunction (SHJ) solar cells have excelled owing to their high efficiency ...

The ability to produce few-atoms-thick two-dimensional materials of high quality such as graphene, transition-metal dichalcogenides and hexagonal boron nitride is a major improvement in condensed-matter physics and in ...

In this thesis, a millimeter-scale liquid pixel based on EWOD and intended for optics applications is theoretically studied, fabricated in a clean room using standard microtechnology processes, and tested in the laboratory ...

This work describes alternative micro and nanotechnologies for the development of robot skins. In particular, polystyrene nanoparticles have been worked with in this project. The degree thesis was developed at ETSETB, ...