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:
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, Jon W., Jarrett H. Vella, Wei Li, Shanhui Fan, and Maiken H. Mikkelsen. “Ultrafast pyroelectric photodetection with on-chip spectral filters.” Nature Materials 19, no. 2 (February 2020): 158–62. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41563-019-0538-6.
- Shen, Qixin, Thang B. Hoang, Guoce Yang, Virginia D. Wheeler, and Maiken H. Mikkelsen. “Probing the origin of highly-efficient third-harmonic generation in plasmonic nanogaps.” Optics Express 26, no. 16 (August 2018): 20718–25. https://doi.org/10.1364/oe.26.020718.
- Huang, J., G. M. Akselrod, T. Ming, J. Kong, and M. H. Mikkelsen. “Tailored Emission Spectrum of 2D Semiconductors Using Plasmonic Nanocavities.” Acs Photonics 5, no. 2 (February 21, 2018): 552–58. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsphotonics.7b01085.
- Wilson, Wade M., Jon W. Stewart, and Maiken H. Mikkelsen. “Surpassing Single Line Width Active Tuning with Photochromic Molecules Coupled to Plasmonic Nanoantennas.” Nano Letters 18, no. 2 (February 2018): 853–58. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.nanolett.7b04109.
- Sykes, Matthew E., Jon W. Stewart, Gleb M. Akselrod, Xiang-Tian Kong, Zhiming Wang, David J. Gosztola, Alex B. F. Martinson, et al. “Publisher Correction: Enhanced generation and anisotropic Coulomb scattering of hot electrons in an ultra-broadband plasmonic nanopatch metasurface.” Nature Communications 8, no. 1 (December 2017): 2135. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-02106-x.