PhD Thesis: Spin and charge transport in thermally and AC driven nanodevices

We are proud to congratulate Maria Isabel Alomar on the recent successful defense of her thesis work, "Spin and charge transport in thermally and AC driven nanodevices", supervised by David Sánchez.

Her thesis, defended on Monday 9th October, deals with spintronic and electronic transport in nanodevices driven by temperature gradients or time-dependent potentials. Interestingly, this thesis finds that the thermoelectric conductance is more sensitive in graphene to energy variations, that a two-dimensional electron gas offers remarkable capabilities for the generation of highly tunable thermoelectric currents, that all-electric spin transistors show intricate behavior as a function of the spin-orbit coupling, and that charging effects in mesoscopic capacitors give rise to additional electron or hole current pulses.

Alomar’s PhD dissertation was presented to the members of the jury Gloria Platero (ICMM, CSIC), Audrey Cottet (ENS, Paris) and Rosa López (IFISC), who qualified the thesis defense with the highest mark (excellent cum laude).