New state-of-the-art electron beam nanolithography tool at Tulane

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...

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:...

Senior Design Team wins multiple awards

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...

Congratulations to Dr. Adam Ollanik!

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...

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...