For a while now, our group has been very interested in antimony trisulfide (Sb2S3) as a low-loss material for visible and near-infrared nanophotonics with dynamically switchable performance. Our latest publication on this work is out, focusing on a scalable framework...
This summer, our team is actively testing the Sunflower Receiver atop Flower Hall — a hybrid concentrated photovoltaic system that captures both electricity and thermal energy, with system efficiencies as high as 85% compared to ~20% for conventional solar panels. The...
Sid Padmanabha successfully defended his dissertation entitled “Engineering Light Across Scales: Reconfigurable Metasurfaces and Solar Electric-Thermal Cogeneration Systems”. Congrats to Dr. Sid on his hooding and...
Congrats to our Flower Power team for winning best Engineering Physics capstone project! Anna Walker, Conor Farnan, Corey Hart, Matt Graf, and Miriam Lerner all did a tremendous job this year advancing our solar cogeneration pilot project on the roof of Flower Hall,...
Monolayer MoS2 is an excellent optoelectronic material owing to its direct bandgap, unlike bulk MoS2, which undergoes a direct-to-indirect bandgap transition. Our latest publication demonstrates a scalable method for stacking large-area, CVD-grown MoS2 monolayers...
Matt, Aamir, and Abdulhafeez attended the MRS meeting in Seattle, Washington, from April 7-11, 2025, where Aamir gave a talk on the potential of stacked CVD-grown MoS2 monolayers as high-specific-power photovoltaics for space applications. At the same time,...
Dr Ismael and the team published a paper on large-area CVD-grown monolayer MoS2-based flexible photovoltaic devices on ultrathin 3 μm polyimide films for space structures. A subnanometer-thick single MoS2 monolayer absorber characterized under 1 sun AM0 illumination...
Timothy Ismael has successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis on April 29, 2024. The title of his dissertation is “Two-Dimensional Materials-Based Photovoltaics for High Specific Power Applications.” Congratulations, Dr. Timothy...
The team’s efforts in the development of a hybrid solar energy converter, which generates both electricity and steam with high efficiency (up to 85%), continue with the relocation of our testbed from San Diego to New Orleans. As part of the pilot demonstration of our...
Matt and Sid gave talks on switchable metasurfaces and metalenses using phase change materials and Tim and Aamir presented posters on 2D materials for high specific power photovoltaics at MRS in San Francisco, Ca from April 10-14, 2023. The title of the talks were:...
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