Carmen S. Menoni | |
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| Alma mater | National University of Rosario Colorado State University |
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| Institutions | Colorado State University |
| Thesis | The influence of pressure on germanium and indium-phosphide. (1987) |
Carmen S. Menoni is anArgentine-American physicist who is the University Distinguished Professor atColorado State University. Her research considers oxide materials for interference coatings and spectrometry imaging. She is a Fellow of theInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers,American Physical Society,Optica, andSPIE. Menoni served as the President of theIEEE Photonics Society from 2020 to 2021.
Menoni is fromRosario, Santa Fe,Argentina.[1][2] She became interested in mathematics and physics as a young girl.[1] She studied electrical engineering at theNational University of Rosario, where she completed an undergraduate research project with theNational Atomic Energy Commission.[1] Inspired by her introduction to materials science, Menoni decided to follow a research career with optical materials. She moved to theUnited States as a graduate student, where she joinedColorado State University to study structure-property relationships inGermanium andIndium phosphide.[3]
In 1991, Menoni joined the faculty atColorado State University as a teaching assistant. She led theNational Science Foundation centre for Extreme Ultraviolet (EUV) Science and Technology with her husband,Jorge Rocca.[4][5] AtColorado State Menoni investigated the physics of semiconductors and optically active materials.[6][7] In the 1990s, Menoni established XUV Lasers, a spin-out company that sought to commercialize her innovations in laser science.[8]
Menoni studied multi-layer oxide materials that can act asanti-reflective coatings for high power lasers. In 2008, she developed a table-top microscope that usesextreme ultraviolet lasers and sophisticated lasers to image nanoscale objects.[9] The laser pulse, which had around a nanosecond duration, could image structures with a spatial resolution of ≈ 0.05 μm.[9] This discovery resulted in Menoni winning theR&D Mag 100 Award.[9] The anti-reflection coatings developed by Menoni were used in theLIGO gravitational wave detector.[10] She produces the anti-reflection coatings throughion beam sputtering.[10]
Menoni was promoted to University Distinguished Professor in 2014, and elected President of theIEEE Photonics Society in 2020.[11]
Menoni met her husband, laser physicistJorge J. Rocca [de], as an undergraduate student at theNational University of Rosario.[21]
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