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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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