We invite the NAU community to attend an online lecture by Matthew Escarra, associate professor of Physics and Engineering Physics at Tulane University

On 31 May, at 19.00, an online lecture by Matthew Escarra, associate professor of Physics and Engineering Physics at Tulane University, "Solar Energy: Photovoltaics and Related Material".

The lecture will focus on the direct conversion of sunlight into electricity using photovoltaic devices. The lecturer will review the fundamental principles of solid-state and optical physics, as well as key topics in materials science and engineering with a focus on standard and novel materials and their related applications.

Matthew Escarra is an associate professor in the Department of Physics and Engineering Physics and Dean of the School of Micro/Nanotechnology at Tulane University. He received his PhD in electrical engineering from Princeton University in 2011, where he made significant progress in quantum cascade lasers and mid-infrared metamaterials. He continued his postdoctoral studies at the California Institute of Technology, where he developed new approaches to highly efficient solar energy conversion using spectrum-splitting photonic structures. In addition to his teaching and research, he has worked with several small and large companies to commercialise new technologies, including Daylight Solutions, Otherlab, Dow Chemical, and Boeing-Spectrolab. He is a recipient of a National Science Foundation CAREER award and a senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and Optica. At Tulane, his research group developed a solar spectrum-splitting cogeneration system that converts sunlight into steam and electricity with an 85% efficiency.

His team has made significant advances in low-loss, low-phase-transition metasurfaces and large-area optoelectronics from two-dimensional semiconductors.

Link to registration.