Jun 10, 2019
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... Jun 5, 2019
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... May 30, 2019
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:... Apr 12, 2019
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... Mar 30, 2019
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... Feb 23, 2019
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... Jun 8, 2018
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... Mar 22, 2018
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... Mar 20, 2018
The group attended the ARPA-E Energy Innovation Summit held in National Harbor, MD from March 13 – 15, 2018. The summit is an annual meeting of energy innovators from industry, academia, national labs, and more. Our collaborators from the... Mar 20, 2018
Please watch here a 2-minute video showing the overall concept and recent progress on our hybrid CPV/T project, including footage of some of our recent outdoor field... We use cookies to ensure that we give you the best experience on our website. If you continue to use this site we will assume that you are happy with it.Ok 