Peter B. Catrysse, Ph.D. - Research Website

Welcome to my website!

I am an engineering research associate in the interdisciplinary Edward L. Ginzton Laboratory at Stanford University.

My research in the nanohotonics field focuses on the theoretical and experimental exploration of metal-based metamaterials and nanophotonic devices that enable efficient transport of light at the nano-scale for energy, information, and optical sensing applications. I perform this work in the research group of Professor Shanhui Fan.

I am also have my own researh group in field of solid-state image sensing. Following my doctoral work on the optics of image sensors in the research group of Professors Brian A. Wandell and Abbas El Gamal, I am particularly interested in light-matter interaction inside micron-size image sensor pixels and the consequences of fundamental light properties on performance as solid state image sensor technology scales.

I have published extensively on my research in both fields (>75 papers including 11 invited and 16 highly-cited) and presented my work at numerous international conferences (including >25 invited talks).

Enjoy your visit,

Dr. Peter B. Catrysse, Ph.D.

News and research highlights in 2011

• New My most recent work on Transverse electromagnetic modes in aperture waveguides containing a metamaterial with extreme anisotropy has been published in Phys. Rev. Lett. (June 2011)
• New In work published in the J. Opt. Soc. Am. B, we developed the Temporal coupled-mode theory for resonant apertures (Sept. 2010)
• New Our letter on the design of Nanopatterned Metallic Films for Use As Transparent Conductive Electrodes in Optoelectronic Devices is published in Nano Letters (Jul. 2010)
• New In new plasmonic lens work, published in Optics Lett., we demonstrate Phase front design with metallic pillar arrays. This is useful for implementing wavelength-size optical devices, such as microlenses and microprisms (Mar. 2010)
• New My image sensor pixel optics research group publishes its second archival paper in Opt. Express on Microlens performance limits in sub-2μm pixel CMOS image sensors (Mar. 2010)

News and research highlights from 2010 and earlier.