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... Mar 28, 2016
The Escarra group presents their research on the FOCUS project and the 2-D materials at the 2016 MRS Spring Meeting in Phoenix, Arizona. Dr. Qi Xu has an oral presentation on the FOCUS project while Yaping Ji and John Robertson presents two posters on the FOCUS... Dec 17, 2015
Max Woody, a sophomore engineering physics student, joins the group. Welcome,... Dec 3, 2015
Adam Ollanik presents his work on Nanophotonics and Dielectric Metasurfaces at the Materials Research Society’s 2015 Fall meeting in Boston, MA. The talk was titled “Highly efficient, all dielectric, transmission gradient... Oct 2, 2015
Dr. Brian Riggs has joined the group as a postdoc working on the FOCUS project. Welcome... Aug 1, 2015
Kazi Islam and Skylar Deckoff-Jones join the group. Kazi is a Physics graduate student on the Materials Track. He recently received his Master of Science in Microsystems Engineering from Masdar Institute of Science and Technology. Skylar is a Physics undergraduate... Jun 19, 2015
The Escarra Group participates in the 42nd IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference, held in downtown New Orleans. Vera Ji presents her work on the FOCUS project at the conference. The group also plays a leading role in the New Orleans Solar Day held on June 14th,... Apr 24, 2015
Prof. Escarra, Qi, and other FOCUS team members paid a visit to the Solana Generating Station, located near Gila Bend, AZ. Solana is a concentrated solar power station that converts sunlight into thermal energy, which can then be stored for later use or immediately... Apr 17, 2015
The group’s ARPA-E FOCUS project is featured in the Tulane New Wave and in other local news... 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 