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<td>Please Save the Date: Final Oral Examination for the
Ph.D. Degree- LEI WANG- Thursday, March 19, 2015 at 2PM</td>
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<td>Fri, 6 Mar 2015 19:36:21 +0000</td>
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<td>Wilkinson, Eleonor V <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:evwilk@wm.edu"><evwilk@wm.edu></a></td>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Times New
Roman","serif";color:black;text-transform:uppercase">Physics
Dissertation Defense<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span
style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman","serif";color:#00B0F0">LEI WANG
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
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19, 2015<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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122<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span
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Roman","serif";color:black">“Plasmonics
and Magneto-Plasmonics in Thin Films and Nanostructures”<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
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Roman","serif";color:#00B0F0">Abstract:</span></b><span
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</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times
New Roman","serif"">The work presented here
concerns the optical and magneto-optical responses of thin
films (metallic, conducting oxide, and metal-to-insulator
phase transition thin films) and metallic nanoparticles,
under the excitation of surface plasmon polaritons (SPPs)
and localized surface plasmon resonance (LSPR). The
underlying aim of this thesis is to build the current
understanding of SPP/LSPR excitation in various nano-
materials, and thus provide exciting alternatives in
plasmonic based applications. In this thesis, we present
our research work on SPPs and LSPR studies in different
kinds of thin films and nanoparticles. We present
theoretical and experimental studies on the observed strong
enhancement of the magneto-optical Faraday rotation in
all-metal core-shell Fe-Ag/Co-Ag nanoparticles, attributed
to strong LSPR excitation in the noble metal shells. We also
report observation of optically excited SPPs and bulk
plasmons in ruthenium oxide (RuO<sub>2</sub>) thin films,
offering an exciting alternative to conventional metals for
metamaterials and plasmonic applications, due to their low
optical losses in the visible and near-infrared ranges.
Finally, we report on the first observation of optically
excited tunable SPPs in vanadium dioxide (VO<sub>2</sub>)
thin films during its thermally induced metal-to-insulator
phase transition.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span
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</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times
New Roman","serif"">Lei Wang was born in
Lishu, Jilin Province, China in 1984. She attended the
University of Science and Technology of China and was
awarded her Bachelor’s degree in 2008. After graduation,
she continued her studies in physics at the College of
William and Mary, being awarded her Master’s degree in 2010.
She is currently pursuing her PhD degree in Physics at the
College of William and Mary where she is expecting her
degree to be awarded in May 2015.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span
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Corsiva";color:#1F497D">Eleonor V. Wilkinson<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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