id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt 4m90dv1708g Brendan Brown Plasmon Dephasing and Heat Dissipation in Gold Nanostructures 2022 .txt text/plain 801 34 54 This thesis examines two topics, energy loss mechanisms for surface plasmon modes in metal nanostripes, and heat diffusion in photothermal experiments on gold particles and how it affects microscopy images. Electron motions which occur at the surfaces of conducting materials that have a definitive momentum are known as propagating surface plasmon polaritons (PSPPs).For a metal structure supported on a dielectric substrate, there exists two types of PSPP modes: the bound mode at the interface between the metal and dielectric and the leaky mode at the glass-air interface. cache/4m90dv1708g.txt txt/4m90dv1708g.txt