Scholars@Duke

• Background
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  Education, Training, & Certifications

  • Ph.D., University of California at Santa Barbara 2009
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  Duke Appointment History

  • Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Pratt School of Engineering 2012 - 2017
  • Assistant Professor of Physics, Physics, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2016 - 2017
  • Assistant Professor in the Department of Physics, Physics, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2012 - 2016
• Recognition
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  In the News

  • MAY 4, 2017

    Duke Research Blog

    Trapping Light to Enhance Material Properties

  • DEC 15, 2016

    Nanocubes Simplify Printing And Imaging In Color And Infrared

  • FEB 29, 2016

    Mikkelsen Named 2016 Cottrell Scholar

  • NOV 9, 2015

    New Technology Colors In the Infrared Rainbow

  • JUL 28, 2015

    Tech Times

    Researchers create light-emitting device that flashes 90 billion times per second

  • JUL 27, 2015

    Superfast Fluorescence Sets New Speed Record

  • OCT 13, 2014

    Revving Up Fluorescence for Superfast LEDs

  • OCT 13, 2014

    NDTV

    Superfast LEDs to improve light-based telecommunications

  • JUL 28, 2014

    Two Win Powe Award from Oak Ridge

  • APR 16, 2014

    Energy Initiative Provides First Round of Research Seed Funding
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  Awards & Honors

  • Early Career Achievement Award. SPIE – the international society for optics and photonics . 2017
  • Maria Goeppert Mayer Award . American Physical Society. 2017
  • Young Investigator Program Award. Office of Naval Research . 2017
  • Cottrell Scholar Award. Research Corporation for Science Advancement . 2016
  • Scialog Fellow. Research Corporation for Science Advancement . 2016
  • Young Investigator Program Award . Army Research Office . 2016
  • CAREER Award . National Science Foundation . 2015
  • Young Investigator Program Award . Air Force Office of Scientific Research . 2015
  • Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Award . Oak Ridge Associated Universities. 2014
  • Ph.D. Thesis prize, Quantum Electronics and Optics. European Physical Society. 2011
• Expertise
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  Subject Headings

  • Condensed Matter Physics
  • Nanophotonics
  • Nanostructured materials
  • Photonics
• Research
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  Selected Grants

  • Plasmonically Enhanced Point-of-care Detection of Cardiac Biomarkers by a Smart Phone awarded by National Institutes of Health 2019 - 2024
  • Hybrid Pyroelectric-plasmonic Photodetectors for On-chip Hyperspectral Imaging awarded by Air Force Office of Scientific Research 2018 - 2021
  • Reconfigurable Optical Properties in the Near-IR Enabled Bottom-Up Assembly of Nanoengineered Materials awarded by Army Research Laboratory 2016 - 2021
  • Career:Light-matter control of single defects in diamond using plasmonic nanocavities awarded by  National Science Foundation 2015 - 2020
  • Metasurface-Based Perfect Absorbers for Robust and Adaptable Coatings awarded by Office of Naval Research 2017 - 2020
  • EFRI ACQUIRE: An Integrated Quantum Communication Transmission Node awarded by University of Washington 2016 - 2019
  • Exploring the interplay between nanoscale design and optical properties of materials: A research and educational approach. awarded by Research Corporation for Science Advancement 2016 - 2019
  • Tailoring Radiative Processes by Nanoengineering for Ultrafast Optoelectronic Devices awarded by Air Force Office of Scientific Research 2015 - 2018
  • Tunable Light-Matter Interactions of Single Quantum Dots awarded by Oak Ridge Associated Universities 2014 - 2015
• Publications & Artistic Works
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  Selected Publications

  • Academic Articles

    • Shen, Q, Hoang, TB, Yang, G, Wheeler, VD, & Mikkelsen, MH. (2018, August 6). Probing the origin of highly-efficient third-harmonic generation in plasmonic nanogaps. Optics Express , 26 (16), 20718-20725.  Full Text
    • Huang, J, Akselrod, GM, Ming, T, Kong, J, & Mikkelsen, MH. (2018, February 21). Tailored Emission Spectrum of 2D Semiconductors Using Plasmonic Nanocavities. Acs Photonics , 5 (2), 552-558.  Full Text
    • Wilson, WM, Stewart, JW, & Mikkelsen, MH. (2018, February). Surpassing Single Line Width Active Tuning with Photochromic Molecules Coupled to Plasmonic Nanoantennas. Nano Letters , 18 (2), 853-858.  Full Text
    • Sykes, ME, Stewart, JW, Akselrod, GM, Kong, X-T, Wang, Z, Gosztola, DJ, Martinson, ABF, Rosenmann, D, Mikkelsen, MH, Govorov, AO, & Wiederrecht, GP. (2017, December 12). Publisher Correction: Enhanced generation and anisotropic Coulomb scattering of hot electrons in an ultra-broadband plasmonic nanopatch metasurface. Nature communications , 8 (1), 2135-.  Full Text
    • Hoang, TB, Akselrod, GM, Yang, A, Odom, TW, & Mikkelsen, MH. (2017, November). Millimeter-Scale Spatial Coherence from a Plasmon Laser. Nano letters , 17 (11), 6690-6695.  Full Text
    • Sykes, ME, Stewart, JW, Akselrod, GM, Kong, X-T, Wang, Z, Gosztola, DJ, Martinson, ABF, Rosenmann, D, Mikkelsen, MH, Govorov, AO, & Wiederrecht, GP. (2017, October 17). Enhanced generation and anisotropic Coulomb scattering of hot electrons in an ultra-broadband plasmonic nanopatch metasurface. Nature communications , 8 (1), 986-.  Full Text
    • Huang, J, Hoang, TB, Ming, T, Kong, J, & Mikkelsen, MH. (2017, February 24). Temporal and spatial valley dynamics in two-dimensional semiconductors probed via Kerr rotation. Physical Review B , 95 (7).  Full Text
    • Stewart, JW, Akselrod, GM, Smith, DR, & Mikkelsen, MH. (2017, February). Toward Multispectral Imaging with Colloidal Metasurface Pixels. Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.) , 29 (6).  Full Text
    • Akselrod, GM, Weidman, MC, Li, Y, Argyropoulos, C, Tisdale, WA, & Mikkelsen, MH. (2016, October 19). Efficient Nanosecond Photoluminescence from Infrared PbS Quantum Dots Coupled to Plasmonic Nanoantennas. Acs Photonics , 3 (10), 1741-1746.  Full Text
    • Ge, W, Hoang, TB, Mikkelsen, MH, & Stiff-Roberts, AD. (2016, September 1). RIR-MAPLE deposition of plasmonic silver nanoparticles. Applied Physics A: Materials Science and Processing , 122 (9).  Full Text  Open Access Copy
    • Hoang, TB, Huang, J, & Mikkelsen, MH. (2016, May 28). Colloidal Synthesis of Nanopatch Antennas for Applications in Plasmonics and Nanophotonics. Journal of visualized experiments : JoVE , (111).  Full Text
    • Hoang, TB, & Mikkelsen, MH. (2016, May 2). Broad electrical tuning of plasmonic nanoantennas at visible frequencies. Applied Physics Letters , 108 (18).  Full Text
    • Hoang, TB, Akselrod, GM, & Mikkelsen, MH. (2016, January 13). Ultrafast Room-Temperature Single Photon Emission from Quantum Dots Coupled to Plasmonic Nanocavities. Nano Letters , 16 (1), 270-275.  Full Text
    • Huang, J, Hoang, TB, & Mikkelsen, MH. (2016, January). Probing the origin of excitonic states in monolayer WSe2. Scientific Reports , 6 , 22414-null.  Full Text
    • Akselrod, GM, Huang, J, Hoang, TB, Bowen, PT, Su, L, Smith, DR, & Mikkelsen, MH. (2015, December). Large-Area Metasurface Perfect Absorbers from Visible to Near-Infrared. Advanced Materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.) , 27 (48), 8028-8034.  Full Text
    • Baron, A, Hoang, TB, Fang, C, Mikkelsen, MH, & Smith, DR. (2015, May 11). Ultrafast self-action of surface-plasmon polaritons at an air/metal interface. Physical Review B Condensed Matter and Materials Physics , 91 (19).  Full Text
    • Akselrod, GM, Ming, T, Argyropoulos, C, Hoang, TB, Lin, Y, Ling, X, Smith, DR, Kong, J, & Mikkelsen, MH. (2015, May 4). Leveraging Nanocavity Harmonics for Control of Optical Processes in 2D Semiconductors. Nano Letters , 15 (5), 3578-3584.  Full Text
    • Kolchin, P, Pholchai, N, Mikkelsen, MH, Oh, J, Ota, S, Islam, MS, Yin, X, & Zhang, X. (2015, April 8). Correction to High Purcell Factor Due to Coupling of a Single Emitter to a Dielectric Slot Waveguide. Nano Letters , 15 (4), 2763-null.  Full Text
    • Kolchin, P, Pholchai, N, Mikkelsen, MH, Oh, J, Ota, S, Islam, MS, Yin, X, & Zhang, X. (2015, January 14). High purcell factor due to coupling of a single emitter to a dielectric slot waveguide. Nano Letters , 15 (1), 464-468.  Full Text
    • Hoang, TB, Akselrod, GM, Argyropoulos, C, Huang, J, Smith, DR, & Mikkelsen, MH. (2015, January). Ultrafast spontaneous emission source using plasmonic nanoantennas. Nature Communications , 6 , 7788-null.  Full Text
    • Yang, A, Hoang, TB, Dridi, M, Deeb, C, Mikkelsen, MH, Schatz, GC, & Odom, TW. (2015, January). Real-time tunable lasing from plasmonic nanocavity arrays. Nature Communications , 6 , 6939-null.  Full Text
    • Lassiter, JB, Chen, X, Liu, X, Ciracì, C, Hoang, TB, Larouche, S, Oh, SH, Mikkelsen, MH, & Smith, DR. (2014, November 19). Third-Harmonic Generation Enhancement by Film-Coupled Plasmonic Stripe Resonators. Acs Photonics , 1 (11), 1212-1217.  Full Text
    • Rose, A, Hoang, TB, McGuire, F, Mock, JJ, Ciracì, C, Smith, DR, & Mikkelsen, MH. (2014, August). Control of radiative processes using tunable plasmonic nanopatch antennas. Nano letters , 14 (8), 4797-4802.  Full Text  Open Access Copy
    • Akselrod, GM, Argyropoulos, C, Hoang, TB, Ciracì, C, Fang, C, Huang, J, Smith, DR, & Mikkelsen, MH. (2014, January 1). Probing the mechanisms of large Purcell enhancement in plasmonic nanoantennas. Nature Photonics , 8 (11), 835-840.  Full Text
    • Kolchin, P, Pholchai, N, Mikkelsen, MH, Oh, J, Ota, S, Saif Islam, M, Yin, X, & Zhang, X. (2013, November 21). Single-emitter quantum electrodynamics in a onedimensional dielectric continuum far beyond the diffraction limit. Cleo: Qels Fundamental Science, Cleo:Qels Fs 2013 ,.
    • Kolchin, P, Pholchai, N, Mikkelsen, MH, Oh, J, Ota, S, Islam, MS, Yin, X, & Zhang, X. (2013, January 1). Single-emitter quantum electrodynamics in a one-dimensional dielectric continuum far beyond the diffraction limit. 2013 Conference on Lasers and Electro Optics, Cleo 2013 ,.
    • Zentgraf, T, Liu, Y, Mikkelsen, MH, Valentine, J, & Zhang, X. (2011, March). Plasmonic Luneburg and Eaton lenses. Nature Nanotechnology , 6 (3), 151-155.  Full Text
    • Zentgraf, T, Liu, Y, Mikkelsen, MH, Valentine, J, & Zhang, X. (2011). Plasmonic Luneburg and Eaton lenses. Nature Nanotechnology , 6 (151). (Academic Article)
    • Mikkelsen, MH, Berezovsky, J, & Awschalom, DD. (2009, September 1). Ultrafast optical manipulation of single electron spins in quantum dots. Solid State Communications , 149 (35-36), 1451-1457.  Full Text
    • Mikkelsen, MH, Myers, RC, Fuchs, GD, & Awschalom, DD. (2008, November 24). Chapter 1 Single Spin Coherence in Semiconductors. Semiconductors and Semimetals , 82 , 1-44. (Review)  Full Text
    • Berezovsky, J, Mikkelsen, MH, Stoltz, NG, Coldren, LA, & Awschalom, DD. (2008, April 18). Picosecond coherent optical manipulation of a single electron spin in a quantum dot. Science , 320 (5874), 349-352.  Full Text
    • Berezovsky*, J, Mikkelsen*, MH, Stoltz, NG, Coldren, LA, & Awschalom, DD. (2008). Picosecond coherent optical manipulation of a single electron spin in a quantum dot. Science , 320 (349). (Academic Article)
    • Myers, RC, Mikkelsen, MH, Tang, J-M, Gossard, AC, Flatté, ME, & Awschalom, DD. (2008). Zero-field optical manipulation of magnetic ions in semiconductors. Nature Materials , 7 (203). (Academic Article)
    • Myers, RC, Mikkelsen, MH, Tang, JM, Gossard, AC, Flatté, ME, & Awschalom, DD. (2008, January 1). Zero-field optical manipulation of magnetic ions in semiconductors (Nature Materials (2008) 7 (203-208) ). Nature Materials , 7 (4), 339-null.  Full Text
    • Myers, RC, Mikkelsen, MH, Tang, JM, Gossard, AC, Flatté, ME, & Awschalom, DD. (2008, January 1). Zero-field optical manipulation of magnetic ions in semiconductors. Nature Materials , 7 (3), 203-208.  Full Text
    • Mikkelsen, MH, Berezovsky, J, Stoltz, NG, Coldren, LA, & Awschalom, DD. (2007). Optically detected coherent spin dynamics of a single electron in a quantum dot. Nature Physics , 3 (770). (Academic Article)
    • Mikkelsen, MH, Berezovsky, J, Stoltz, NG, Coldren, LA, & Awschalom, DD. (2007, January 1). Optically detected coherent spin dynamics of a single electron in a quantum dot. Nature Physics , 3 (11), 770-773.  Full Text
    • Berezovsky, J, Mikkelsen, MH, Gywat, O, Stoltz, WG, Coldren, LA, & Awschalom, DD. (2006, December 1). Nondestructive optical measurements of a single electron spin in a quantum dot. Science , 314 (5807), 1916-1920.  Full Text
    • Berezovsky, J, Mikkelsen, MH, Gywat, O, Stoltz, NG, Coldren, LA, & Awschalom, DD. (2006). Nondestructive optical measurements of a single electron spin in a quantum dot. Science , 314 (1916). (Academic Article)

  • Conference Papers

    • Boyce, AM, Stewart, JW, Wheeler, V, & Mikkelsen, MH. (2017, October 25). Actively-tunable plasmonic metasurfaces using a phasechange material.  Full Text
    • Hoang, TB, Akselrod, GM, & Mikkelsen, MH. (2017, October 25). Ultrafast room-Temperature single photon source with plasmonic nanocavities.  Full Text
    • Stewart, JW, Akselrod, GM, Smith, DR, & Mikkelsen, MH. (2017, October 25). Multispectral metasurface absorbers for optoelectronic devices.  Full Text
    • Mikkelsen, MH. (2017, September 26). Large-scale plasmonic pixels and combinatorial colors.  Full Text
    • Boyce, AM, Stewart, JW, Wheeler, V, & Mikkelsen, MH. (2017, January 1). Actively-tunable plasmonic metasurfaces using a phasechange material.  Full Text
    • Hoang, TB, Akselrod, GM, & Mikkelsen, MH. (2017, January 1). Ultrafast room-temperature single photon source with plasmonic nanocavities.  Full Text
    • Stewart, JW, Akselrod, GM, Smith, DR, & Mikkelsen, MH. (2017, January 1). Multispectral metasurface absorbers for optoelectronic devices.  Full Text
    • Argyropoulos, C, Akselrod, GM, Ciraci, C, Hoang, TB, Fang, C, Huang, J, Smith, DR, & Mikkelsen, MH. (2015, October 21). Directional plasmonic nanoantennas to enhance the purcell effect.  Full Text
    • Akselrod, GM, Argyropoulos, C, Hoang, TB, Ciraci, C, Fang, C, Huang, J, Smith, DR, & Mikkelsen, MH. (2015, August 10). Plasmonic nanopatch antennas for large purcell enhancement.
    • Baron, A, Hoang, TB, Fang, C, Mikkelsen, MH, & Smith, DR. (2015, August 10). Large and ultrafast nonlinear absorption of an air/gold plasmonic waveguide.
    • Akselrod, GM, Argyropoulos, C, Hoang, TB, Ciraci, C, Fang, C, Huang, J, Smith, DR, & Mikkelsen, MH. (2015). Plasmonic Nanopatch Antennas for Large Purcell Enhancement. CLEO: QELS_Fundamental Science. OSA.  Full Text
    • Baron, A, Hoang, TB, Fang, C, Larouche, S, Gauthier, DJ, Mikkelsen, MH, & Smith, DR. (2015, January 1). Nonlinear Metal/Dielectric Plasmonic Interfaces.  Full Text
    • Baron, A, Hoang, TB, Fang, C, Mikkelsen, MH, & Smith, DR. (2015, January 1). Large and ultrafast nonlinear absorption of an air/gold plasmonic waveguide.  Full Text
    • Mikkelsen, MH, Rose, A, Hoang, TB, McGuire, F, Mock, JJ, Ciracì, C, & Smith, DR. (2014, October 14). Giant fluorescence enhancement of molecules coupled to plasmonic nanoscale patch antennas.
    • Baron, A, Hoang, TB, Fang, C, Mikkelsen, MH, & Smith, DR. (2014, July 21). Ultrafast self-action in an air/gold plasmonic waveguide.
    • Baron, A, Hoang, TB, Fang, C, Mikkelsen, MH, & Smith, DR. (2014, July 21). Ultrafast self-action in an air/gold plasmonic waveguide.
    • (2014, January 1). Tunable plasmonic platform for giant fluorescence enhancement.
    • Mikkelsen, MH, Rose, A, Hoang, TB, McGuire, F, Mock, JJ, Ciracì, C, & Smith, DR. (2014, January 1). Tunable plasmonic platform for giant fluorescence enhancement.
    • Mikkelsen, MH. (2014, January 1). On-demand optical properties of quantum emitters using plasmonic nanoantennas.  Full Text
• Teaching & Mentoring
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  Recent Courses

  • PHYSICS 791: SPECIAL READINGS 2019
  • ECE 899: Special Readings in Electrical Engineering 2017
  • PHYSICS 495: Thesis Independent Study 2017
• Scholarly, Clinical, & Service Activities
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  Presentations & Appearances

  • Ultra-small Plasmonic Cavities for Tailored Light-Matter Interactions. University of Southern Denmark. November 13, 2017  2017
  • Hybrid Nanomaterials for Tailored Light-Matter Interactions. Lund University. November 10, 2017  2017
  • Tailored emission of two-dimensional semiconductors. Center for Nanostructured Graphene at the Technical University of Denmark. Technical University of Denmark . November 8, 2017  2017
  • Hybrid Nanomaterials for Tailored Light-Matter Interactions. Purdue University. October 23, 2017  2017
  • Molecular scale plasmonics. Summer School On Plasmonics 4. September 7, 2017  2017
  • Plasmonic pixels and colors using silver nanocubes. International Conference on Enhanced Spectroscopies (ICES). September 5, 2017  2017
  • Large-scale plasmonic pixels and combinatorial colors. 2017 International Conference on Optical MEMS and Nanophotonics . August 15, 2017  2017
  • Ultrafast spontaneous emission from single quantum dots coupled to plasmonic nanocavities. SPIE Optics + Photonics. August 7, 2017  2017
  • Film-Coupled Nanocubes: From Ultrafast Spontaneous Emission to Perfect Absorbers. American Chemical Society (ACS) National Meeting. April 5, 2017  2017
  • Ultrafast single photon sources and enhanced nonlinear generation using plasmonic nanocavities. Quantum Nanophotonics. March 3, 2017  2017
  • Hybrid Molecular-Scale Materials for Tailored Light-Matter Interactions. Tsinghua University. October 14, 2016  2016
  • Tailored and reconfigurable optical properties using plasmonics. SPIE/COS Photonics Asia 2016. October 13, 2016  2016
  • Control of radiative processes of quantum dots using colloidal silver nanoparticles. NC Photochem 2016 symposium. October 1, 2016  2016
  • Ultrafast single photon source using plasmonics. Single Photons Single Spins (SPSS) workshop. September 13, 2016  2016
  • Ultrafast light sources: Spontaneous and stimulated emission. OSA Incubator on the Science and Application of Nanolasers. September 8, 2016  2016
  • Plasmonic colloidal nanoparticles: Gateway to extreme radiative decay engineering. American Chemical Society (ACS) National Meeting. August 24, 2016  2016
  • Hybrid Molecular-Scale Materials for Tailored Light-Matter Interactions. University of Sydney. August 15, 2016  2016
  • Hybrid Molecular-Scale Materials: From Ultrafast Spontaneous Emission to Perfect Absorbers. Imperial College London. July 22, 2016  2016
  • Radiative decay engineering using optical antennas. 12th Conference on Photonic and Electromagnetic Crystal Structures (PECS-XII). July 20, 2016  2016
  • Extreme radiative decay engineering using nanopacth antennas. 2016 Gordon Research Conference on Plasmonics and Nanophotonics. July 12, 2016  2016

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