Maiken Mikkelsen

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

Appointments and Affiliations

• James N. and Elizabeth H. Barton Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
• Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
• Faculty Network Member of The Energy Initiative

Contact Information

• Office Location: 2509 CIEMAS, Durham, NC 27708
• Office Phone: (919) 660-0185
• Email Address: m.mikkelsen@duke.edu
• Websites:
  • https://mikkelsen.pratt.duke.edu

Education

• Ph.D. University of California - Santa Barbara, 2009

Research Interests

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

Awards, Honors, and Distinctions

• Stansell Family Distinguished Research Award. Pratt School of Engineering. 2021
• Young Investigator Program Award. Office of Naval Research . 2017
• Early Career Achievement Award. SPIE – the international society for optics and photonics . 2017
• Maria Goeppert Mayer Award . American Physical Society. 2017
• Cottrell Scholar Award. Research Corporation for Science Advancement . 2016
• Young Investigator Program Award . Army Research Office . 2016
• Scialog Fellow. Research Corporation for Science Advancement . 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

Courses Taught

• ECE 524: Introduction to Solid-State Physics

In the News

• Duke Engineers Seek a Better Super Camera (Jul 7, 2022 | Pratt School of Engineering)
• Picturing the Future of Food Sustainability (May 26, 2022 | Duke Science & Technology)
• With This Camera, One Snapshot Captures All of Light's Data (Mar 11, 2021)
• Taking Inexpensive Cameras Beyond Visible Light (Nov 25, 2019 | Pratt School of Engineering)
• Mikkelsen Wins Moore Inventor Fellowship to Pursue Hyperspectral Cameras (Oct 16, 2019 | Pratt School of Engineering)
• Trapping Light to Enhance Material Properties (May 4, 2017 | Duke Research Blog)
• Nanocubes Simplify Printing And Imaging In Color And Infrared (Dec 15, 2016)
• Mikkelsen Named 2016 Cottrell Scholar (Feb 29, 2016)
• New Technology Colors In the Infrared Rainbow (Nov 9, 2015)
• Researchers create light-emitting device that flashes 90 billion times per second (Jul 28, 2015 | Tech Times)
• Superfast Fluorescence Sets New Speed Record (Jul 27, 2015)
• Revving Up Fluorescence for Superfast LEDs (Oct 13, 2014)
• Superfast LEDs to improve light-based telecommunications (Oct 13, 2014 | NDTV)
• Two Win Powe Award from Oak Ridge (Jul 28, 2014)
• Energy Initiative Provides First Round of Research Seed Funding (Apr 16, 2014)

Representative Publications

• Stewart, JW; Vella, JH; Li, W; Fan, S; Mikkelsen, MH, Ultrafast pyroelectric photodetection with on-chip spectral filters., Nature Materials, vol 19 no. 2 (2020), pp. 158-162 [10.1038/s41563-019-0538-6] [abs].
• Shen, Q; Hoang, TB; Yang, G; Wheeler, VD; Mikkelsen, MH, Probing the origin of highly-efficient third-harmonic generation in plasmonic nanogaps., Optics Express, vol 26 no. 16 (2018), pp. 20718-20725 [10.1364/oe.26.020718] [abs].
• Huang, J; Akselrod, GM; Ming, T; Kong, J; Mikkelsen, MH, Tailored Emission Spectrum of 2D Semiconductors Using Plasmonic Nanocavities, Acs Photonics, vol 5 no. 2 (2018), pp. 552-558 [10.1021/acsphotonics.7b01085] [abs].
• Wilson, WM; Stewart, JW; Mikkelsen, MH, Surpassing Single Line Width Active Tuning with Photochromic Molecules Coupled to Plasmonic Nanoantennas., Nano Letters, vol 18 no. 2 (2018), pp. 853-858 [10.1021/acs.nanolett.7b04109] [abs].
• Sykes, ME; Stewart, JW; Akselrod, GM; Kong, X-T; Wang, Z; Gosztola, DJ; Martinson, ABF; Rosenmann, D; Mikkelsen, MH; Govorov, AO; Wiederrecht, GP, Publisher Correction: Enhanced generation and anisotropic Coulomb scattering of hot electrons in an ultra-broadband plasmonic nanopatch metasurface., Nature Communications, vol 8 no. 1 (2017) [10.1038/s41467-017-02106-x] [abs].