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...
Mar 20, 2017
The Escarra Group presented several talks at the APS March Meeting 2017 in New Orleans, LA. The titles and the sessions that they were presented in are as follows: “Quantum Efficiency Measurements of wafer-scale CVD grown MoS2 Phototransistors”...
Mar 2, 2017
The Escarra lab attended the ARPA-E Energy Innovation Summit held in National Harbor, MD from February 27 – March 1, 2017. The summit is an annual meeting of energy innovators from industry, academia, national labs, and more. Our collaborators...
Feb 22, 2017
The Escarra group hosted dozens of middle school students as part of Tulane’s BATS (Boys at Tulane in STEM) outreach program on February 4, 2017. The students engaged in hands-on experiments to see how energy is converted from light to electricity to...
Feb 20, 2017
Tulane’s student team took first place last week (02/16/2017) at NASA’s BIG Idea Challenge for their design of a self-assembling, solar-powered spacecraft ferry system. The winning team includes two current and another former Escarra group members:...
Nov 10, 2016
Dr. Qi Xu’s paper entitled “Transmissive concentrator multijunction solar cells with over 47% in-band power conversion efficiency” was published in Applied Physics Letters. This paper reports a major part of the continuous work on the hybrid solar energy...
Sep 21, 2016
Dr. Qi Xu’s paper entitled “A transmissive, spectrum-splitting concentrating photovoltaic module for hybrid photovoltaic-solar thermal energy conversion” was published in the journal Solar Energy. This is the first paper out of the group on our hybrid solar energy...
Aug 29, 2016
The Escarra Group got together on the 4th of August for the annual group picnic at Professor Escarra’s house. It was a fun event with the presence of family of the group members, especially the little ones: Kevin, Abram and Elijah (from left to right in the...
Jun 5, 2016
Brian Riggs attends the 43rd IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference (PVSC) from June 5-10, 2016 in Portland, Or and presents a poster on the group’s ongoing work in the FOCUS project. His poster is titled ‘Thermal Characterization of Concentrated Solar Absorbance...
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