UC Berkeley

In this dissertation, we present contributions to the nanoscale engineering of electronic and geometrical structure of dielectric-metal interfaces. Such structure is designed to support the interaction of light and matter for useful scientific and technological applications. Among our interests are electromagnetic subwavelength localization, propagation and storage; photonic manipulation, modulation, synchronization and its use in the confinement of atomic systems. The latter is directed towards a new generation of scalable devices for quantum information processing (QIP) and surface science studies.