Charnock's research

I am an experimentalist, and I've used a variety of electrical and optical techniques to study solid state materials.

My graduate dissertation (Wake Forest University, 1999) investigated the dynamics of dipolar defects in rare earth doped Calcium Fluoride and Strontium Fluoride.

Since then, my work has focused on the spin dynamics. At the Naval Research Lab in Washington, DC, I studied the coherent propertis of defect trapped electrons in diamond. At NIST in Boulder, CO, I studied properties of electronic and nuclear spins in GaAs.

Publications:

Forrest T. Charnock, R. Lopusnik, and T. J. Silva, “Pump-probe Faraday rotation magnetometer using two diode lasers,” Rev. of Sci. Inst. 76, 056105 (2005).

T. A. Kennedy, F. T. Charnock, J. S. Colton, J. E. Butler, R. C. Linares, P. J. Doering, “Single-qubit operations with the nitrogen-vacancy center in diamond,” Physica Status Solidi B 233, 416 (2002).

Forrest T. Charnock and T. A. Kennedy, “A combined optical and microwave approach for performing quantum spin operations on the nitrogen-vacancy center in diamond,” Phys. Rev. B 64, 041201 (2001).

Forrest T. Charnock and Thomas A. Kennedy, “Coherent Operations on the Spin of the Nitrogen-Vacancy Center in Diamond,” 2001 edition of NRL Review.

D. J. Norris, Nan Yao, F. T. Charnock, and T. A. Kennedy, “High-Quality Manganese-Doped ZnSe Nanocrystals,” Nano Letters 1, 3 (2001).

Forrest Charnock, G. Eric Matthews, Brian Pieslak, and R. T. Williams, “Observation of optically stimulated reorientation of dipolar defects in Pr 3+ doped strontium fluoride,” Phys. Rev. B. 59 14253 (1999).

F. Charnock, H. Shields, and G. E. Matthews, “Dielectric and Electron Paramagnetic Double Resonance,” in Proceedings of the 13 th International Conference on Defects in Insulating Materials, (Trans Tech Publications Ltd., Switzerland, 1997), p. 353.

Forrest Charnock, Alan Tackett, H. Shields, and G. Eric Matthews, Jr., “Relaxation modes of Fluoride interstitials in gadolinium-doped SrF2,” Phys. Rev. B 51, 1 (1995).