Maiken Mikkelsen, Assistant Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering

Specialties: Nanophysics, experimental condensed matter physics, spintronics, nanophotonics, and quantum information science Education: PhD, University of California, Santa Barbara 2009 MA, University of California, Santa Barbara 2007 BS, University of Copenhagen, Denmark 2004 Representative Publications: 1) Thomas Zentgraf*, Yongmin Liu*, Maiken H. Mikkelsen*, Jason Valentine & Xiang Zhang, “Plasmonic Luneburg and Eaton lenses”, Nature Nanotechnology 6, 151 (2011) 2) J. Berezovsky*, M. H. Mikkelsen*, N. G. Stoltz, L. A. Coldren & D. D. Awschalom, “Picosecond coherent optical manipulation of a single electron spin in a quantum dot”, Science 320, 349 (2008), cover article 3) R. C. Myers, M. H. Mikkelsen, J.-M. Tang, A. C. Gossard, M. E. Flatté & D. D. Awschalom, “Zero-field optical manipulation of magnetic ions in semiconductors”, Nature Materials 7, 203 (2008) 4) M. H. Mikkelsen, J. Berezovsky, N. G. Stoltz, L. A. Coldren & D. D. Awschalom, “Optically detected coherent spin dynamics of a single electron in a quantum dot”, Nature Physics 3, 770 (2007) 5) J. Berezovsky, M. H. Mikkelsen, O. Gywat, N. G. Stoltz, L. A. Coldren & D. D. Awschalom, “Nondestructive optical measurements of a single electron spin in a quantum dot”, Science 314, 1916 (2006)

Contact Info:

Office Location:	Fitzpatrick Center for Interdisciplinary Engineering, Medicine and Applied Scien
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Teaching (Fall 2026):

• ECE 524.01, INTRO TO SOLID-STATE PHY Synopsis

  Hudson 201, TuTh 11:45 AM-01:00 PM

Education:

Ph.D.	University of California, Santa Barbara	2009
MA	University of California, Santa Barbara	2007
BS	University of Copenhagen, Denmark	2004

Specialties:

Nanophysics
Experimental condensed matter physics

Recent Publications   (More Publications)

1. Stewart, JW; Vella, JH; Li, W; Fan, S; Mikkelsen, MH, Ultrafast pyroelectric photodetection with on-chip spectral filters., Nature Materials, vol. 19 no. 2 (February, 2020), pp. 158-162 [doi]  [abs]
2. 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 (August, 2018), pp. 20718-20725, The Optical Society [doi]  [abs]
3. 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 (February, 2018), pp. 552-558, American Chemical Society (ACS) [doi]  [abs]
4. 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 (February, 2018), pp. 853-858 [doi]  [abs]
5. 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 (December, 2017), pp. 2135 [doi]  [abs]