Nathan Grinalds achieved 1st place in the best poster competition at the Tulane SMART REU Research Symposium held on August 2, 2019. His poster was titled “Large-Area Growth and Transfer of MoS2 for Fabrication of 2D Optoelectronics”. Nathan is from High Point...
Prof. Escarra is PI on a NSF MRI grant to install a cutting edge electron beam nanolithography tool at Tulane to support nanoscience across southeast Louisiana. The selected tool, a Raith Voyager 100, was recently installed and is now fully operational, providing...
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...
For the 3rd consecutive year, the Escarra Group hosted a group of middle school students from Paul Habans Charter School as part of the LightLab Summer Research Experience from 6/3/19 through 6/7/19. The LightLab program provides young scholars with the opportunity to...
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...
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:...
The senior design team (Jackie Failla, Luke Artzt, Will Adams, and David Bar-Or) working on the hybrid photovoltaic/thermal project wins the “Fan Favorite” (as voted on by the students) and “Best Capstone Project” (as voted on by the industry reps and faculty) in the...
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...
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...
For the 2ndconsecutive year, the Escarra Group hosted seven middle school students from Paul Habans Charter School as part of the LightLab Summer Research Experience from 6/4/18 through 6/8/18. The LightLab program provides young scholars with the opportunity to work...
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