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...
Apr 7, 2015
John Robertson presents his work on 2D materials for optoelectronics at the Spring Materials Research Society (MRS) meeting in San...
Feb 26, 2015
Qi Xu joins the group as our first postdoctoral scholar. He comes from Tsinghua University and the University of New South...
Jan 2, 2015
Ben Lewson, an undergraduate in Engineering Physics, joins the...
Aug 29, 2014
Adam earns runner-up best presentation at the department’s annual summer research colloquium for his talk entitled “Splitting the Solar Spectrum via Dielectric Resonator Nanoantennas.” Congrats...
Aug 8, 2014
– Yaping “Vera” Ji joins the group as a Physics graduate...
Aug 1, 2014
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...
