Visit to the Solana Generating Station

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...

Qi Xu joins the group

Qi Xu joins the group as our first postdoctoral scholar. He comes from Tsinghua University and the University of New South...

ARPA-E FOCUS project launched at Tulane

An ARPA-E project within the FOCUS program is launched in our group in collaboration with Otherlab in San Francisco, Boeing-Spectrolab in Sylmar, CA, and the University of San Diego. The goal of the project is to design, build, and test a hybrid concentrated...