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...

Group members win at the Summer Research Colloquium at Tulane

The Escarra group recently participated at the annual Summer Research Colloquium of the Physics and Engineering Physics department at Tulane. Kazi won the award for the best oral presentation, while Brittany and Meghan won the awards for best poster and runner-up...

Group presents at the PVSC

Vera and Kazi presented two posters on the hybrid photovoltaic/thermal project at the PVSC in Chicago, IL from June 16-21, 2019. The title of their posters are: “A Sunflower Receiver for Hybrid Photovoltaic-Solar Thermal Energy Conversion”, and...

Group presents at MRS and CLEO meetings

Adam and Isaac attended the CLEO meeting in San Jose, CA in May 2019 and presented a talk and two posters on the metasurfaces projects. The titles of their presentations are: “An Affordable, Customizable, and Highly Sensitive Metasurface-Based Refractive Index...

Group publishes several papers on different projects

The Escarra group has published several papers on the FOCUS project, the metasurfaces project, and the 2-D materials project in the past year. More details can be found on the publications section of the group website:...