Congratulations to Dr. Kazi Islam!

Kazi Islam has successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis on December 1, 2020. The title of his dissertation is “New Developments in Solar Energy Conversion: From Fundamental Two-Dimensional Materials to Advanced Concentrating Photovoltaic Modules”. Congratulations, Dr....

Congratulations to Dr. Yaping Ji!

Yaping “Vera” Ji has successfully defended her Ph.D. thesis on May 1, 2020. The title of her dissertation is “Concentrator Photovoltaic Modules for Hybrid Solar Energy Collection”. Congratulations, Dr. Yaping...

Sid is awarded the annual Richard G. Davis Fellowship

Sid Padmanabha, a 1st year graduate student in the Escarra group, was selected by the Physics and Engineering Physics Department faculty as the recipient of the annual Richard G. Davis Fellowship, awarded to an exceptional incoming graduate student in Physics and...

Group publishes paper on custom-designed interferometer

Dr. Adam Ollanik published his paper on three-beam interferometry in Advanced Optical Materials. The paper describes the custom-designed three-beam Mach Zehnder interferometer built in our lab that is capable of continuously-referenced, low noise and low drift...

Congratulations to Dr. Adam Ollanik!

Adam Ollanik has successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis on March 29, 2019. The title of his dissertation is “Dielectric Huygens Metasurfaces: A Versatile Platform for Nanoscale Optical Manipulation”.Congratulations, Dr. Adam...