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... Jan 30, 2018
The FOCUS project at the Escarra Group was recently featured in a Tulane press release. The group is currently building prototypes of the solar photovoltaic-thermal hybrid converter and outdoor tests are going on in a collaborator’s facility in San Diego,... Dec 15, 2017
We are pleased to share that we have now undertaken several rounds of outdoor field testing of our transmissive CPV module prototypes with concentrated sunlight on the roof at the University of San Diego, one of our collaborators on the project. The module consists of... Sep 25, 2017
Dr. Brian Riggs’ paper titled “Techno-economic analysis of hybrid PV/T systems for process heat using electricity to subsidize the cost of heat” has been published in Applied Energy. The paper discusses the economic viability of hybrid solar energy conversion... Sep 1, 2017
John Robertson publishes his first paper on the two dimensional (2D) materials work that he is been undertaking in the lab. The paper discusses the wafer-scale growth mechanism and characterization of monolayer and few-layer molybdenum disulfide (MoS2). The paper can... Aug 15, 2017
The Escarra Group members attended and presented at several conferences over the Spring and Summer of 2017. Below is a list of the presenters and the titles of their presentations: MRS Spring Meeting (April 17-21, 2017) – Phoenix, Arizona, USA John... Aug 5, 2017
Mason Belue achieved 2nd place in the best poster competition at the Tulane SMART REU Research Symposium held on August 4, 2017. His poster was titled “Tunable Dielectric Huygens Source Metasurfaces”. Mason is from the University of Arkansas, and he worked in the... Jul 11, 2017
The Escarra Group hosted nine middle school students from Paul Habans Charter School as part of the LightLab Summer Research Experience from 6/19/17 through 6/23/17. The LightLab program is a unique research opportunity for young scholars and was funded in part by... Apr 2, 2017
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... 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 