Luminescent materials have become an integral part of our society, being for instance used to light up our buildings and electronic displays. The process of absorbing ultra-violet light and converting it to visible or near ...

This study presented in this doctoral thesis addresses the development of the Upper Jurassic Curtis Formation, outcropping in east-central Utah. The study suggests a separation of the Curtis Formation in three geological ...

The topic of this dissertation is bitrate adaptive media streaming to receivers in mobile wireless networks. This work was motivated by the recent explosion in popularity of media streaming to mobile devices. Wireless ...

Extracellular vesicles are small round bodies secreted from the membranes of most living cells, including bacteria. The bacterial vesicles contain many of the same components as the mother bacteria and play numerous roles ...

Rocks, ceramics, metals and many other materials are made up of crystals. More than 150 years ago scientists realized that when crystals grow inside a confining solid it may exert a force on the confining solid. This "force ...

This thesis describes the development of a dual-mode optical power detector, where two measurement principles are combined into one device. The dual-mode detector combines the principles of thermal detection and photo-electrical ...

Roughly, three-quarters of the energy produced in the world ends up as waste heat. However, the waste heat can be harvested, stored and reused using specially built heat storage reactors for high- or low-temperature ...