Brian Riggs presents at the 43rd IEEE PVSC

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...

Graduation of Nick Farrar-Foley and Skylar Deckoff-Jones

Two undergraduate members from the Escarra group, Nick Farrar-Foley and Skylar Deckoff-Jones, have graduated this Spring. Their work on the FOCUS cooling test set-up in the group is highly recognized and they have been awarded with the top senior design project award....

Professor Escarra presents at the CPV-12 conference

Professor Escarra attends the 12th International Conference on Concentrator Photovoltaics (CPV-12) from April 25-27 in Freiburg, Germany and presents in the ‘Novel Concepts in CPV’ session. His talk is titled ‘A Hybrid Photovoltaic-photothermal...

Visit to the Solana Generating Station

Prof. Escarra, Qi, and other FOCUS team members paid a visit to the Solana Generating Station, located near Gila Bend, AZ. Solana is a concentrated solar power station that converts sunlight into thermal energy, which can then be stored for later use or immediately...