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... Jun 5, 2016
Adam Ollanik attends the Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO-36) from June 5-10, 2016 in San Jose, CA and presents a poster on his work in the dielectric metasurfaces project. His poster is titled ‘Highly Efficient, All-Dielectric, Transmissive... Jun 1, 2016
Richard ‘Richie’ Biedenharn, Briley Bourgeois and Nathaniel Kurtz join the Escarra Group for the Summer of 2016. Richie is a MBA graduate student and Briley is a Engineering Physics undergraduate student at Tulane University while Nathaniel is a... May 31, 2016
Two undergraduate members from the Escarra group, Nick Farrar-Foley and Skylar Deckoff-Jones, have graduated this Spring. Their work on the FOCUS cooling test set-up in the group is highly recognized and they have been awarded with the top senior design project award.... Apr 25, 2016
Professor Escarra attends the 12th International Conference on Concentrator Photovoltaics (CPV-12) from April 25-27 in Freiburg, Germany and presents in the ‘Novel Concepts in CPV’ session. His talk is titled ‘A Hybrid Photovoltaic-photothermal... 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 