Masiello, David JGoldwyn, Harrison Jay2021-03-192021-03-192020Goldwyn_washington_0250E_22500.pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/1773/46750Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Washington, 2020The combination of optical microscopy and nanoscale antennas has great potential, but numerous complexities must first be understood. In this dissertation I use simple mathematical models of plasmonic nanoantennas interacting with their environment together with models of the diffraction limited imaging process occurring in a modern microscope to solve previously open questions in the literature. The two major stories are (1) resolving the mislocalization of molecules in plasmon-enhanced super-resolution fluorescence microscopy and (2) unification of past photothermal imaging theories and generalizing the formalism to resonant phenomena.application/pdfen-USCC BYimagingmislocalizationmodelingnanophotonicsphotothermalplasmonicsOpticsPhysicsNanoscienceChemistryThesis