Maiken Mikkelsen Explained

Maiken Mikkelsen is a physicist who won the Maria Goeppert Mayer award from the American Physical Society in 2017 for her work in quantum nanophotonics.[1] She is currently the James N. and Elizabeth H. Barton Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering [2] and an associate professor of physics at Duke University.

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 electron spin 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.[3] 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 in nanophotonic 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.[4]

List of awards and honors

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),[15] Nature Communications 6, 7788 (2015)[16] ).

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)[17] ).

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)[18] ).

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)[19] , Advanced Materials 29, 1602971 (2017)[20] ).

Elucidated 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)[21] , Advanced Materials 35, 2107986 (2023)[22] ).

Showed first, ultrabright single photon source at 1550 nm. Sandwiched colloidal quantum dots in a nanogap cavity to enhance their spontaneous emission rate ~10,000-times. This resulted in single photon emission count rates of 12.6 MHz for quantum dots emitting at 1550 nm and 15 MHz for quantum dots emitting at 1350 nm, corresponding to an improvement of more than two orders of magnitude over state-of-the-art. (Under review, (2024)).

Publications

Her most cited publications are:

References

  1. Web site: 2017 Maria Goeppert Mayer Award Recipient. American Physical Society. October 22, 2019.
  2. Web site: Maiken Mikkelsen. 2019-10-22. Duke Pratt School of Engineering. en. 2019-10-22.
  3. Web site: QEOD Prizes - QEOD Thesis Prizes - European Physical Society (EPS). www.eps.org. 2019-10-22.
  4. Web site: Maiken Mikkelsen . 2024-07-22 . Mikkelsen Lab . en.
  5. Web site: Thompson . Christopher . 2021-03-11 . Capturing All of Light’s Data in One Snapshot . 2024-07-22 . Duke Pratt School of Engineering . en-US.
  6. Web site: Pratt School of Engineering Awards . 2024-07-22 . Duke Pratt School of Engineering . en-US.
  7. Web site: 2020-11-18 . 2020 ACS Photonics Young Investigator Award Lectureship Goes to Maiken H. Mikkelsen . 2024-07-22 . ACS Publications Chemistry Blog . en-GB.
  8. Web site: Investigator Detail . 2024-07-22 . www.moore.org.
  9. Web site: Thompson . Christopher . 2019-10-15 . Mikkelsen Wins Moore Inventor Fellowship to Pursue Hyperspectral Cameras . 2024-07-22 . Duke Pratt School of Engineering . en-US.
  10. Web site: RePORT ⟩ RePORTER . 2024-07-22 . reporter.nih.gov.
  11. Web site: Scholars@Duke grant: Plasmonically Enhanced Point-of-care Detection of Cardiac Biomarkers by a Smart Phone . 2024-07-22 . scholars.duke.edu.
  12. Web site: Maria Goeppert Mayer Award . 2024-07-22 . www.aps.org . en.
  13. Web site: SPIE 2017 awards honor biomedical, photonics achievements and dedication to education . 2024-07-22 . spie.org . en.
  14. Web site: 2022-03-18 . 2017 Young Investigator Award Recipients . 2024-07-22 . Office of Naval Research . en.
  15. Akselrod . Gleb M. . Argyropoulos . Christos . Hoang . Thang B. . Ciracì . Cristian . Fang . Chao . Huang . Jiani . Smith . David R. . Mikkelsen . Maiken H. . November 2014 . Probing the mechanisms of large Purcell enhancement in plasmonic nanoantennas . Nature Photonics . en . 8 . 11 . 835–840 . 10.1038/nphoton.2014.228 . 1749-4893.
  16. Hoang . Thang B. . Akselrod . Gleb M. . Argyropoulos . Christos . Huang . Jiani . Smith . David R. . Mikkelsen . Maiken H. . 2015-07-27 . Ultrafast spontaneous emission source using plasmonic nanoantennas . Nature Communications . en . 6 . 1 . 7788 . 10.1038/ncomms8788 . 2041-1723. 4525280 .
  17. Hoang . Thang B. . Akselrod . Gleb M. . Mikkelsen . Maiken H. . 2016-01-13 . Ultrafast Room-Temperature Single Photon Emission from Quantum Dots Coupled to Plasmonic Nanocavities . Nano Letters . en . 16 . 1 . 270–275 . 10.1021/acs.nanolett.5b03724 . 1530-6984.
  18. Stewart . Jon W. . Vella . Jarrett H. . Li . Wei . Fan . Shanhui . Mikkelsen . Maiken H. . February 2020 . Ultrafast pyroelectric photodetection with on-chip spectral filters . Nature Materials . en . 19 . 2 . 158–162 . 10.1038/s41563-019-0538-6 . 1476-4660.
  19. Akselrod . Gleb M. . Huang . Jiani . Hoang . Thang B. . Bowen . Patrick T. . Su . Logan . Smith . David R. . Mikkelsen . Maiken H. . December 2015 . Large‐Area Metasurface Perfect Absorbers from Visible to Near‐Infrared . Advanced Materials . en . 27 . 48 . 8028–8034 . 10.1002/adma.201503281 . 0935-9648.
  20. Stewart . Jon W. . Akselrod . Gleb M. . Smith . David R. . Mikkelsen . Maiken H. . February 2017 . Toward Multispectral Imaging with Colloidal Metasurface Pixels . Advanced Materials . en . 29 . 6 . 10.1002/adma.201602971 . 0935-9648.
  21. Cruz . Daniela F. . Fontes . Cassio M. . Semeniak . Daria . Huang . Jiani . Hucknall . Angus . Chilkoti . Ashutosh . Mikkelsen . Maiken H. . 2020-06-10 . Ultrabright Fluorescence Readout of an Inkjet-Printed Immunoassay Using Plasmonic Nanogap Cavities . Nano Letters . en . 20 . 6 . 4330–4336 . 10.1021/acs.nanolett.0c01051 . 1530-6984 . 7737629 . 32375003.
  22. Semeniak . Daria . Cruz . Daniela F. . Chilkoti . Ashutosh . Mikkelsen . Maiken H. . August 2023 . Plasmonic Fluorescence Enhancement in Diagnostics for Clinical Tests at Point‐of‐Care: A Review of Recent Technologies . Advanced Materials . en . 35 . 34 . 10.1002/adma.202107986 . 0935-9648 . 9986847 . 35332957.
  23. Google Scholar author page https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&amp;as_sdt=0%2C33&amp;q=Maiken+Mikkelsen&amp;btnG= Accessed Dec. 16, 2019

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