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Maiken Mikkelsen is a physicist who won the
Nature Photonics
8, 835 (2014)'',
Nature Communications
6, 7788 (2015)').'' Realized first ultrafast and efficient single photon source. Realized this long-sought goal by embedding single quantum dots in plasmonic cavities. Critical to quantum information and quantum optics communities, as the natural slow emission rate of single photon sources is a limiting factor for many experiments and future applications '
Nano Letters
16, 270 (2016)').'' Demonstrated first ultrafast, spectrally-selective thermal photodetector. Utilized metasurfaces to create spectrally-selective perfect absorption enabling the use of an only 100 nm pyroelectric thermal detection layer and revealing speeds of <700 ps, an improvement of five-orders-of-magnitude over state-of-the-art. The metasurface also acts as an on-chip spectral filter promising for hyperspectral imaging '
Nature Materials
19, 158 (2020)').'' Created novel multi-scale fabrication technique to realize large-area structural color. Utilized chemical self-assembly to achieve sub-10 nm gaps between metals to demonstrate spectrally-selective perfect absorbers. Combined with top-down large-scale patterning to realize multi-spectral pixels and ~10,000 plasmonic combinatorial colors. Promising for transformative breakthroughs of ''e.g.'' photodetectors and imaging devices '
Advanced Materials
27, 8028 (2015)'
Advanced Materials
29, 1602971 (2017)').'' Explained the benefit of nanogap cavities for point-of-care immunoassays. Integrated a sandwich immunoassay microarray within a plasmonic nanogap cavity resulting in a 151-fold increase in fluorescence and 14-fold improvement in the limit-of-detection for the cardiac biomarker B-type natriuretic peptide (BNP). '
Nano Letters
20, 4330 (2020)'
Advanced Materials
35, 2107986 (2023)'''')''.
Accessed Dec. 16, 2019 * (cited 277 times according to Google Scholar) * (cited 211 times according to Google Scholar) * (cited 210 times according to Google Scholar) * (cited 185 times according to Google Scholar)
Faculty profile
Mikkelsen Lab site
MURI:Meta-Imaging
Google Scholar profile
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Maiken Mikkelsen is a physicist who won the Maria Goeppert Mayer award
The Maria Goeppert-Mayer Award is an annual prize presented by the American Physical Society in recognition of an outstanding contribution to physics research by a woman. It recognizes and enhances outstanding achievements by women physicists in ...
from the American Physical Society
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in 2017 for her work in quantum nanophotonics. She is currently the James N. and Elizabeth H. Barton Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and an associate professor of physics at Duke University
Duke University is a private research university in Durham, North Carolina. Founded by Methodists and Quakers in the present-day city of Trinity in 1838, the school moved to Durham in 1892. In 1924, tobacco and electric power industrialist James ...
where she teaches ECE 891: internship and ECE 524: introduction to solid state physics. Mikkelsen is credited for many advancements in optoelectronics, nanophotonics, human health and the environment.
Education
Maiken Mikkelsen received her B.S. in physics in 2004 from the University of Copenhagen. She received her Ph.D. in physics in 2009 from the University of California, Santa Barbara, where she studied single electronspin
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dynamics in semiconductors for her Ph.D. thesis and for which she won the 2011 Thesis Prize from the Quantum Electronics and Optical Division (QEOD) of the European Physical Society. She did a postdoctoral research fellowship at the University of California at Berkeley before joining the faculty at Duke University in 2012.
Research interests
Mikkelsen's research focuses on light-matter interactions innanophotonic
Nanophotonics or nano-optics is the study of the behavior of light on the nanometer scale, and of the interaction of nanometer-scale objects with light. It is a branch of optics, optical engineering, electrical engineering, and nanotechnology. It ...
structures, quantum materials, and novel multi-scale fabrication techniques. Her recent work in "Extreme Nanophotonics" aims to realize unprecedented material properties and behavior by sculpting electromagnetic fields on the molecular scale.
List of awards and honors
* MURI Award (PI), AFOSR (2021) * Stansell Family Distinguished Research Award, Duke University (2021) * American Chemical Society (ACS) Photonics Young Investigator Award (2020) * Moore Inventor Fellow Award, Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation (2019) * National Institutes of Health (NIH) RO1 Award (2019) * Maria Goeppert Mayer Award, American Physical Society (2017) * Early Career Achievement Award, SPIE (International Society for Optics and Photonics) (2017) * Young Investigator Program (YIP) Award, Office of Naval Research (2017) * Young Investigator Program (YIP) Award, Army Research Office (2016) * Cottrell Scholar Award, Research Corporation for Science Advancement (2016) * Scialog Fellow, Research Corporation for Science Advancement (2016) * CAREER Award, National Science Foundation (2015) * Young Investigator Program (YIP) Award, Air Force Office of Scientific Research (2015) * Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Award (2014) * European Physical Society Ph.D. Thesis prize, Quantum Electronics and Optics (2011) * NSF ADVANCE Award, Workshop for Women in Science & Engineering (2009) * Center for Nanoscience Innovation for Defense (CNID) Graduate Fellowship (2007)Major scientific achievements
Revealed record-high spontaneous emission rates. Elucidated the mechanisms behind large Purcell factors and demonstrated record-high 1,000-fold enhancement in the spontaneous emission rate of dye molecules and semiconductor quantum dots 'Nature Photonics
8, 835 (2014)'',
Nature Communications
6, 7788 (2015)').'' Realized first ultrafast and efficient single photon source. Realized this long-sought goal by embedding single quantum dots in plasmonic cavities. Critical to quantum information and quantum optics communities, as the natural slow emission rate of single photon sources is a limiting factor for many experiments and future applications '
Nano Letters
16, 270 (2016)').'' Demonstrated first ultrafast, spectrally-selective thermal photodetector. Utilized metasurfaces to create spectrally-selective perfect absorption enabling the use of an only 100 nm pyroelectric thermal detection layer and revealing speeds of <700 ps, an improvement of five-orders-of-magnitude over state-of-the-art. The metasurface also acts as an on-chip spectral filter promising for hyperspectral imaging '
Nature Materials
19, 158 (2020)').'' Created novel multi-scale fabrication technique to realize large-area structural color. Utilized chemical self-assembly to achieve sub-10 nm gaps between metals to demonstrate spectrally-selective perfect absorbers. Combined with top-down large-scale patterning to realize multi-spectral pixels and ~10,000 plasmonic combinatorial colors. Promising for transformative breakthroughs of ''e.g.'' photodetectors and imaging devices '
Advanced Materials
27, 8028 (2015)'
Advanced Materials
29, 1602971 (2017)').'' Explained the benefit of nanogap cavities for point-of-care immunoassays. Integrated a sandwich immunoassay microarray within a plasmonic nanogap cavity resulting in a 151-fold increase in fluorescence and 14-fold improvement in the limit-of-detection for the cardiac biomarker B-type natriuretic peptide (BNP). '
Nano Letters
20, 4330 (2020)'
Advanced Materials
35, 2107986 (2023)'''')''.
Publications
Her most cited publications are: * (cited 550 times according to Google ScholarGoogle Scholar author pagAccessed Dec. 16, 2019 * (cited 277 times according to Google Scholar) * (cited 211 times according to Google Scholar) * (cited 210 times according to Google Scholar) * (cited 185 times according to Google Scholar)
References
External links
Faculty profile
Mikkelsen Lab site
MURI:Meta-Imaging
Google Scholar profile
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