Maiken Mikkelsen | Scholars@Duke

Maiken Mikkelsen
James N. and Elizabeth H. Barton Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Current Research Interests

Quantum nanophotonics, plasmonics, light-matter interactions in artificially structured nanoscale materials, hybrid molecular-scale materials and spin phenomena in the solid state

Office Hours

By appointment.

Current Appointments & Affiliations

James N. and Elizabeth H. Barton Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Pratt School of Engineering 2018
Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Pratt School of Engineering 2018
Associate Professor of Physics, Physics, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2018
Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, Pratt School of Engineering 2018
Faculty Network Member of The Energy Initiative, Duke University Energy Initiative, Initiatives 2012

Contact Information

2509 CIEMAS, Durham, NC 27708
90291, Durham, NC 27708
m.mikkelsen@duke.edu (919) 660-0185
https://mikkelsen.pratt.duke.edu

Background
Education, Training, & Certifications
- Ph.D., University of California at Santa Barbara 2009
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
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
Awards & Honors
Expertise
Subject Headings
Research
Selected Grants
- Hybrid Pyroelectric-plasmonic Photodetectors for On-chip Hyperspectral Imaging awarded by Air Force Office of Scientific Research 2018 - 2021
- Ultrafast Spectroscopic Investigation of Enhanced and Suppressed Fluorescence from Solid State Emitters using Plasmonic Nanostructures 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
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), 20718-20718. 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
  - 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). RIR-MAPLE deposition of plasmonic silver nanoparticles. Applied Physics A , 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), 183107-183107. 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
  - 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), 2763-2763. 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, S-H, 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
  - Akselrod, GM, Argyropoulos, C, Hoang, TB, Ciracì, C, Fang, C, Huang, J, Smith, DR, & Mikkelsen, MH. (2014, November). Probing the mechanisms of large Purcell enhancement in plasmonic nanoantennas. Nature Photonics , 8 (11), 835-840. 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
  - (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 ,.
  - (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). Ultrafast optical manipulation of single electron spins in quantum dots. Solid State Communications , 149 (35-36), 1451-1457. 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
  - Myers, RC, Mikkelsen, MH, Tang, J-M, Gossard, AC, Flatté, ME, & Awschalom, DD. (2008, April). Erratum: Zero-field optical manipulation of magnetic ions in semiconductors. Nature Materials , 7 (4), 339-339. Full Text
  - Myers, RC, Mikkelsen, MH, Tang, J-M, Gossard, AC, Flatté, ME, & Awschalom, DD. (2008, March). Zero-field optical manipulation of magnetic ions in semiconductors. Nature Materials , 7 (3), 203-208. 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)
  - Mikkelsen, MH, Myers, RC, Fuchs, GD, & Awschalom, DD. (2008). Chapter 1 Single Spin Coherence in Semiconductors. , 1-44. Full Text
  - 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)
  - Mikkelsen, MH, Berezovsky, J, Stoltz, NG, Coldren, LA, & Awschalom, DD. (2007, November). Optically detected coherent spin dynamics of a single electron in a quantum dot. Nature Physics , 3 (11), 770-773. 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)
  - Berezovsky, J, Mikkelsen, MH, Gywat, O, Stoltz, NG, Coldren, LA, & Awschalom, DD. (2006, December 22). 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)
  - Baron, A, Hoang, TB, Fang, C, Mikkelsen, MH, & Smith, DR. Ultrafast self-action of surface-plasmon polaritons at an air/metal interface(Published online). Physical Review B , 91 (19). Full Text
  - Huang, J, Hoang, TB, Ming, T, Kong, J, & Mikkelsen, MH. Temporal and spatial valley dynamics in two-dimensional semiconductors probed via Kerr rotation(Published online). Physical Review B , 95 (7). Full Text
- Conference Papers
  - (2017, October 25). Multispectral metasurface absorbers for optoelectronic devices. Full Text
  - (2017, October 25). Actively-tunable plasmonic metasurfaces using a phasechange material. Full Text
  - (2017, October 25). Ultrafast room-Temperature single photon source with plasmonic nanocavities. Full Text
  - Mikkelsen, MH. (2017, August). Large-scale plasmonic pixels and combinatorial colors. 2017 International Conference on Optical MEMS and Nanophotonics (OMN). IEEE. Full Text
  - Boyce, AM, Stewart, JW, Wheeler, V, & Mikkelsen, MH. (2017). Actively-tunable plasmonic metasurfaces using a phase-change material. CLEO: QELS_Fundamental Science. OSA. Full Text
  - Hoang, TB, Akselrod, GM, & Mikkelsen, MH. (2017). Ultrafast room-temperature single photon source with plasmonic nanocavities. CLEO: QELS_Fundamental Science. OSA. Full Text
  - Stewart, JW, Akselrod, GM, Smith, DR, & Mikkelsen, MH. (2017). Multispectral Metasurface Absorbers for Optoelectronic Devices. CLEO: Science and Innovations. OSA. Full Text
  - (2015, August 10). Plasmonic nanopatch antennas for large purcell enhancement.
  - (2015, August 10). Large and ultrafast nonlinear absorption of an air/gold plasmonic waveguide.
  - Argyropoulos, C, Akselrod, GM, Ciraci, C, Hoang, TB, Fang, C, Huang, J, Smith, DR, & Mikkelsen, MH. (2015, July). Directional plasmonic nanoantennas to enhance the purcell effect. 2015 USNC-URSI Radio Science Meeting (Joint with AP-S Symposium). IEEE. Full Text
  - 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). Nonlinear Metal/Dielectric Plasmonic Interfaces. Nonlinear Optics. OSA. Full Text
  - Baron, A, Hoang, TB, Fang, C, Mikkelsen, MH, & Smith, DR. (2015). Large and Ultrafast Nonlinear Absorption of an Air/Gold Plasmonic Waveguide. CLEO: QELS_Fundamental Science. OSA. Full Text
  - Mikkelsen, MH. (2014, December). On-demand optical properties of quantum emitters using plasmonic nanoantennas. 2014 IEEE Photonics Conference (IPC). IEEE. Full Text
  - (2014, October 14). Giant fluorescence enhancement of molecules coupled to plasmonic nanoscale patch antennas.
  - (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.
  - (2014, January 1). Tunable plasmonic platform for giant fluorescence enhancement.
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