Congratulations to Dr. John Robertson!

John Robertson has successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis on Feb 22, 2019. The title of his dissertation is “Photovoltaics Large and Small: Atomically Thin Semiconductor Growth and Kilowatt-Scale Transmissive Photovoltaic Systems”.Congratulations, Dr. John...

Group publishes breakthrough metasurface results

Adam Ollanik published our latest work on low-loss all-dielectric Huygens metasurfaces in ACS Photonics. The paper discusses the design and characterization of all-dielectric Huygens metasurfaces with leading efficiency and includes first-ever designs for dielectric...

Professor Matthew Escarra receives NSF CAREER award

Professor Matthew Escarra has been awarded the National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER award, providing $520,000 over five years in support of his early career research and education vision. The award will support the group’s investigation of tunable and low-loss...

Group presents at the APS March Meeting 2017

The Escarra Group presented several talks at the APS March Meeting 2017 in New Orleans, LA. The titles and the sessions that they were presented in are as follows: “Quantum Efficiency Measurements of wafer-scale CVD grown MoS2 Phototransistors”...

Students take first place at NASA’s BIG Idea Challenge

Tulane’s student team took first place last week (02/16/2017) at NASA’s BIG Idea Challenge for their design of a self-assembling, solar-powered spacecraft ferry system. The winning team includes two current and another former Escarra group members:...