In this PhD thesis, we study properties of stationary transverse magnetic polarized waves in structures built of a Kerr-type nonlinear dielectric layer, metal and linear dielectric layers. Although these waves, called here plasmon-solitons, have been studied for more than 30 years, there is still no experimental confirmation of their existence. The main reason being that, in all the configurations predicted so far, the nonlinear index modification required to observe plasmon-solitons corresponds to light intensities orders of magnitude higher than the damage threshold of typical nonlinear materials. The goal of this thesis is to improve the understanding of plasmon-solitons, so as to design structures that support these nonlinear waves at l...