Mar 20, 2018
Please watch here a 2-minute video showing the overall concept and recent progress on our hybrid CPV/T project, including footage of some of our recent outdoor field... Dec 15, 2017
We are pleased to share that we have now undertaken several rounds of outdoor field testing of our transmissive CPV module prototypes with concentrated sunlight on the roof at the University of San Diego, one of our collaborators on the project. The module consists of... Mar 2, 2017
The Escarra lab attended the ARPA-E Energy Innovation Summit held in National Harbor, MD from February 27 – March 1, 2017. The summit is an annual meeting of energy innovators from industry, academia, national labs, and more. Our collaborators... Nov 10, 2016
Dr. Qi Xu’s paper entitled “Transmissive concentrator multijunction solar cells with over 47% in-band power conversion efficiency” was published in Applied Physics Letters. This paper reports a major part of the continuous work on the hybrid solar energy... Sep 21, 2016
Dr. Qi Xu’s paper entitled “A transmissive, spectrum-splitting concentrating photovoltaic module for hybrid photovoltaic-solar thermal energy conversion” was published in the journal Solar Energy. This is the first paper out of the group on our hybrid solar energy... Jun 5, 2016
Brian Riggs attends the 43rd IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference (PVSC) from June 5-10, 2016 in Portland, Or and presents a poster on the group’s ongoing work in the FOCUS project. His poster is titled ‘Thermal Characterization of Concentrated Solar Absorbance...