With nanophotonics we play with light at the wavelength scale. With MEMS we can fabricate silicon machines to manipulate light. This talk will concentrate on where the two meet. This happens in the infrared where wavelength scale structuring matches with MEMS fabrication technology. From enhanced chemical detection to metallic thermal emitters, the potential of sub and near wavelength MEMS will be explored.

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Bio

Dr Ross Stanley received his degree in Experimental Physics IN 1986 from University Colleg Dublin, and his PhD in 1991 from Trinity College Dublin.

In 1992 joined the EPFL in Lausanne. Main work: Design, simulation and characterisation of multilayer optical filters, microcavities and photonic band gap crystals and their integration into novel light emitting diodes and lasers. Pioneer in the field of cavity-polaritons and LEDs based on microcavity effects. He was also technical responsible for 4th and 5th Framework European projects on advanced optical devices and for projects in the Swiss Priority Program on Optics.

In 2001 he joined CSEM, Neuchatel, where he is responsible for plasmonics, optical MEMS and IR development projects at the CSEM SA. Current activities: applied plasmonics, nanoscale structuring of metals, 3D and 2D and disordered photonic crystals, tunable MEMS gratings for Mid-IR lasers, microspectrometers and space applications, optical probes for neurophysiology.

Project Coordinator of several EU projects most recently: FP7 EU project: PLAISIR (Plasmonic Sensing in the InfraRed).

Author of more than 80 refereed publications, 5 book chapters and numerous invited talks.
Member of Programme Committee of SPIE Conference Photonics West since 2006.