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.^[1] 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.^[1]

Publications

Her most cited publications are:

• Akselrod, Gleb M.; Argyropoulos, Christos; Hoang, Thang B.; Ciracì, Cristian; Fang, Chao; Huang, Jiani; Smith, David R.; Mikkelsen, Maiken H. (2014-10-12). "Probing the mechanisms of large Purcell enhancement in plasmonic nanoantennas". Nature Photonics. 8 (11). Springer Science and Business Media LLC: 835–840. Bibcode:2014NaPho...8..835A. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.708.1204. doi:10.1038/nphoton.2014.228. ISSN 1749-4885. S2CID 31055460. (cited 550 times according to Google Scholar^[4]
• Zentgraf, Thomas; Liu, Yongmin; Mikkelsen, Maiken H.; Valentine, Jason; Zhang, Xiang (2011-01-23). "Plasmonic Luneburg and Eaton lenses". Nature Nanotechnology. 6 (3). Springer Science and Business Media LLC: 151–155. arXiv:1101.2493. Bibcode:2011NatNa...6..151Z. doi:10.1038/nnano.2010.282. ISSN 1748-3387. PMID 21258334. S2CID 8773190. (cited 277 times according to Google Scholar) ^[4]
• 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. 6 (1). Springer Science and Business Media LLC: 7788. Bibcode:2015NatCo...6.7788H. doi:10.1038/ncomms8788. ISSN 2041-1723. PMC 4525280. PMID 26212857. (cited 211 times according to Google Scholar) ^[4]
• Yang, Ankun; Hoang, Thang B.; Dridi, Montacer; Deeb, Claire; Mikkelsen, Maiken H.; Schatz, George C.; Odom, Teri W. (2015-04-20). "Real-time tunable lasing from plasmonic nanocavity arrays". Nature Communications. 6 (1). Springer Science and Business Media LLC: 6939. Bibcode:2015NatCo...6.6939Y. doi:10.1038/ncomms7939. ISSN 2041-1723. PMC 4411284. PMID 25891212. (cited 210 times according to Google Scholar) ^[4]
• Hoang, Thang B.; Akselrod, Gleb M.; Mikkelsen, Maiken H. (2015-12-09). "Ultrafast Room-Temperature Single Photon Emission from Quantum Dots Coupled to Plasmonic Nanocavities". Nano Letters. 16 (1). American Chemical Society (ACS): 270–275. doi:10.1021/acs.nanolett.5b03724. ISSN 1530-6984. PMID 26606001. (cited 185 times according to Google Scholar)^[4]