Doctoral Thesis / Dissertation from the year 2008 in the subject Physics - Optics, Babeș-Bolyai Universit, language: English, comment: No grade was given after defense of the thesis, but the author earned the distinction "Summa cum laude.," abstract: Ordered plasmonic nanostructures are currently the subject of numerous scientific studies, due to their potential applications, from optical communications to chemical analyses and biomedicine. This thesis is focused on a special type of periodically ordered two-dimensional (2D) metallo-dielectric structure, noble metal films over...