Engineering metallic nanostructures for surface plasmon resonance sensing

UNiversity of Minnesota Ph.D. dissertation. August 2010. Major: Electrical Engineering. Advisor: Professor Sang-Hyun Oh. 1 computer file (PDF); xii, 143 pages. Ill. (some col), appendices A-B.

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