Additional Campus Affiliations
Assistant Professor, Chemistry
Recent Publications
Backlund, M. P. (2026). Quantum and quantum-inspired optical and magnetic microscopy of molecules. In S. V. Polyakov, P. Derr, & Y. Kim (Eds.), Quantum Effects and Measurement Techniques in Biology and Biophotonics III Article 1387206 (Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE; Vol. 13872). SPIE. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.3080724
Dingilian, A. I., Kurella, A., Chamria, D., Mitchell, C. S., Dhruva, D., Durden, D. J., & Backlund, M. P. (2026). Quantifying classical and quantum bounds for resolving closely spaced, non-interacting, simultaneously emitting dipole sources in optical microscopy. Journal of Chemical Physics, 164(9), Article 094201. https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0316287
Mitchell, C. S., Dhruva, D., Burke, Z. P., Durden, D. J., Dingilian, A. I., & Backlund, M. P. (2026). Characterization of a new, quantum-inspired superresolution technique for high-NA fluorescence microscopy. In R. Erdmann, M. Heilemann, & F. Koberling (Eds.), Single Molecule Spectroscopy and Superresolution Imaging XIX Article 138580E (Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering; Vol. 13858). SPIE. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.3078106
Das, A. K., Hegde, S., Woods, T. J., Wani, V. S., & Backlund, M. P. (2025). Direct Observation of Three Chiral Conformers of an Atomically Precise Metal Nanoparticle. Nano letters, 25(18), 7491-7498. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.nanolett.5c01154
Hegde, S., Durden, D. J., Ajayakumar, L. P., Sivakumar, R., & Backlund, M. P. (2025). Quantum sensing in the fractional Fourier domain. Physical Review Applied, 23(2), Article 024035. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevApplied.23.024035