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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Best Female Scientists Award
  • 2020 - Fellow, National Academy of Inventors
  • 2013 - Member of the Royal Irish Academy
  • 2006 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 2004 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 2003 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 2001 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For her major contributions to the optical physics and technology of the generation of ultrashort pulses of optical and xray radiation
  • 2000 - Fellow of the MacArthur Foundation
  • 1992 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Margaret M. Murnane is affiliated with the University of Colorado Boulder in the United States. Their research spans several main fields including Physics and Astronomy, Engineering, and Materials Science, with specific focus areas in Atomic and Molecular Physics and Optics, Materials Chemistry, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Radiation, and Biomedical Engineering.

The scientist's primary research topics include:

  • Laser-Matter Interactions and Applications
  • Advanced Fiber Laser Technologies
  • Advanced X-ray Imaging Techniques
  • Magnetic properties of thin films
  • Advanced Electron Microscopy Techniques and Applications
  • Laser-Plasma Interactions and Diagnostics
  • Orbital Angular Momentum in Optics

Margaret M. Murnane has published extensively, with significant contributions appearing in venues such as arXiv (Cornell University), Optics Express, Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, Science Advances, and Nano Letters.

Recent papers demonstrating active research include:

  • Roadmap on spatiotemporal light fields, 2023, Journal of Optics
  • Ultrafast optically induced spin transfer in ferromagnetic alloys, 2020, Science Advances
  • Second-harmonic generation and the conservation of spatiotemporal orbital angular momentum of light, 2021, Nature Photonics
  • Nondestructive, high-resolution, chemically specific 3D nanostructure characterization using phase-sensitive EUV imaging reflectometry, 2021, Science Advances
  • The 2021 ultrafast spectroscopic probes of condensed matter roadmap, 2021, Journal of Physics Condensed Matter

Collaborations have played a significant role in their work. Frequent co-authors include Henry C. Kapteyn, Chen-Ting Liao, Nathan J. Brooks, Yuka Esashi, and Michael Tanksalvala, reflecting a diverse and multidisciplinary research network.

Throughout their career, Margaret M. Murnane has received multiple recognitions and fellowships from scientific organizations:

  • Fellow of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, 1992
  • Fellow of American Physical Society (APS), 2001 (citation acknowledges contributions to optical physics and ultrashort pulse generation)
  • Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 2003
  • Member of the National Academy of Sciences, 2004
  • Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2006
  • Member of the Royal Irish Academy, 2013
  • Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors, 2020
  • Fellow of the MacArthur Foundation, 2000

Best Publications

  • Scaling Theory of Localization: Absence of Quantum Diffusion in Two Dimensions

    E. Abrahams;P. W. Anderson;D. C. Licciardello;T. V. Ramakrishnan

  • Bright Coherent Ultrahigh Harmonics in the keV X-ray Regime from Mid-Infrared Femtosecond Lasers

    Tenio Popmintchev;Ming-Chang Chen;Dimitar Popmintchev;Paul Arpin

  • Phase-Matched Generation of Coherent Soft X-rays

    Andy Rundquist;Charles G. Durfee;Zenghu Chang;Catherine Herne

  • GENERATION OF COHERENT SOFT X RAYS AT 2.7 NM USING HIGH HARMONICS

    Zenghu Chang;Andy Rundquist;Haiwen Wang;Margaret M. Murnane

  • High power ultrafast lasers

    Sterling Backus;Charles G. Durfee;Margaret M. Murnane;Henry C. Kapteyn

  • Shaped-pulse optimization of coherent emission of high-harmonic soft X-rays

    R. A. Bartels;S. Backus;E. Zeek;L. Misoguti

  • High-Harmonic Generation of Attosecond Pulses in the “Single-Cycle” Regime

    Ivan P. Christov;Margaret M. Murnane;Henry C. Kapteyn

  • Beyond crystallography: Diffractive imaging using coherent x-ray light sources

    Jianwei Miao;Tetsuya Ishikawa;Ian K. Robinson;Margaret M. Murnane

  • SHORT-PULSE LASER DAMAGE IN TRANSPARENT MATERIALS AS A FUNCTION OF PULSE DURATION

    An-Chun Tien;Sterling Backus;Henry Kapteyn;Margaret Murnane

  • The attosecond nonlinear optics of bright coherent X-ray generation

    Tenio Popmintchev;Ming-Chang Chen;Paul Arpin;Margaret M. Murnane

  • Generation of 11-fs pulses from a self-mode-locked Ti:sapphire laser.

    Melanie T. Asaki;Chung-Po Huang;Dennis Garvey;Jianping Zhou

  • Quasi-ballistic thermal transport from nanoscale interfaces observed using ultrafast coherent soft x-ray beams

    Mark E. Siemens;Mark E. Siemens;Qing Li;Ronggui Yang;Keith A. Nelson

  • Ultrafast X-ray Pulses from Laser-Produced Plasmas

    Margaret M. Murnane;Henry C. Kapteyn;Mordecai D. Rosen;Roger W. Falcone

  • Generation of Bright Phase-matched Circularly-polarized Extreme Ultraviolet High Harmonics

    Ofer Kfir;Patrik Grychtol;Emrah Turgut;Ronny Knut;Ronny Knut

  • Generation of spatially coherent light at extreme ultraviolet wavelengths.

    Randy A. Bartels;Ariel Paul;Hans Green;Henry C. Kapteyn

  • 90 GW peak power few-cycle mid-infrared pulses from an optical parametric amplifier

    Giedrius Andriukaitis;Tadas Balčiūnas;Skirmantas Ališauskas;Audrius Pugžlys

  • Enhanced high-harmonic generation using 25 fs laser pulses.

    J. Zhou;J. Peatross;M. M. Murnane;H. C. Kapteyn

  • Phase Matching of High-Order Harmonics in Hollow Waveguides

    Charles G. Durfee;Andy R. Rundquist;Sterling Backus;Catherine Herne

  • Coherent Soft X-ray Generation in the Water Window with Quasi-Phase Matching

    Emily A. Gibson;Ariel Paul;Nick Wagner;Ra'anan Tobey

  • Phase Matched Generation of Coherent Soft-X-rays

    A. Rundquist;C. G. Durfee;Z. Chang;C. Heme

Frequent Co-Authors

Henry C. Kapteyn
Henry C. Kapteyn University of Colorado Boulder
Martin Aeschlimann
Martin Aeschlimann Technical University of Kaiserslautern
Nicholas L. Wagner
Nicholas L. Wagner Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences
Peter M. Oppeneer
Peter M. Oppeneer Uppsala University
Claus M. Schneider
Claus M. Schneider Forschungszentrum Jülich
Erik H. Anderson
Erik H. Anderson Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Ronggui Yang
Ronggui Yang Peking University
Wei Xiong
Wei Xiong University of Pittsburgh
Jun Ye
Jun Ye University of Colorado Boulder

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