Carlos Andres Meriles Professor

Carlos was born and raised in Córdoba , Argentina. He obtained his Ph.D in physics at FaMAF; the mathematics, physics and astronomy division of the Universidad Nacional de Córdoba under the supervision of late Prof. A.H. Brunetti. His doctoral studies focused on the use of Nuclear Quadrupole Resonance (NQR) to probe structural and dynamical disorder in organic crystals. After graduating in 2000, he joined the group of Prof. Alexander Pines at the University of California, Berkeley to work on Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR), his present field of research. In 2004, he joined the department of physics at City College where he now teaches as an Associate Professor. Topics of current interest in the research group he leads are the mechanisms of nuclear spin polarization, control and detection of nanoscale spin ensembles, and the development of strategies for optically-detected magnetic resonance. Prof. Meriles has received several distinctions including the NSF-CAREER award (2006), the Wegman Brothers faculty fellowship (2006), and the Cottrell Scholar Award (2007). In 2011 he was chosen an Alexander von Humboldt fellow. Some recent publications representing the work of his group follow below.

2013
“Approach to dark spin cooling in a diamond nanocrystal”, A. Laraoui, C.A. Meriles, ACS Nano 7, 3403 (2013).

“Rapid prototyping of a liquid core waveguide in a microfluidic PDMS channel for optical sensing”, F. Song, J.Xiao, D.Pagliero, C.A. Meriles, S-W Seo, Opt. Eng. 52, 04404 (2013).

“High-Resolution Correlation Spectroscopy of 13C Spins Near a Nitrogen-Vacancy Center in Diamond”, A. Laraoui, F. Dolde, C. Burk, F. Reinhard, J. Wrachtrup, C.A. Meriles, Nature Commun. 4, 1651 (2013).

“Nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy on a (5nm)3 volume of liquid and solid samples”, T. Staudacher, F. Shi, S. Pezzagna, J. Meijer, J. Du, C.A. Meriles, F. Reinhard, J. Wrachtrup, Science 339, 561 (2013).

2012
“Nitrogen-Vacancy-assisted magnetometry of paramagnetic centers in an individual diamond nanocrystal”, A. Laraoui, J.S. Hodges, C.A. Meriles, Nano Letters 12, 3477 (2012).

“Optically re-writable patterns of nuclear magnetization in Gallium Arsenide”, J.P. King, Y. Li, C.A. Meriles, J.A. Reimer, Nature Communications 3, 918 (2012).

2011
“Resonant enhancement of polarization conversion in microdisk resonators”, L. Deych, C.A. Meriles, V. Menon, Appl. Phys. Lett. 99, 241107 (2011).

“Magneto-optical contrast in liquid-state optically-detected NMR spectroscopy”, D. Pagliero, C.A. Meriles, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 108, 19510 (2011).

“Rotating frame spin dynamics of a Nitrogen-Vacancy center in a diamond nanocrystal”, A. Laraoui, C.A. Meriles, Phys. Rev. B 84, 161403 (2011). Available as arXiv:1110.2280v1

“The diamond Nitrogen-Vacancy center as a probe of random fluctuations in a nuclear spin ensemble”, A. Laraoui, J.S. Hodges, C. Ryan, C.A. Meriles, Phys. Rev. B 84, 104301 (2011). Available as arXiv:1104.2546.

“Helicity-independent OPNMR in Gallium Arsenide”, Y. Li, J.P. King, L. Peng. M.C. Tamargo, J.A. Reimer, C.A. Meriles, Appl. Phys. Lett.98, 112101 (2011).

“Approach to high-frequency, cavity-enhanced Faraday rotation in a fluid”, D. Pagliero, Y. Li, S. Fisher, C.A. Meriles, Appl. Optics 50, 648 (2011).


2010
"Time-resolved optically-detected NMR of fluids at high-magnetic field”, D. Pagliero, W. Dong, D. Sakellariou, C.A. Meriles, J. Chem. Phys. 133, 154505 (2010).

"Characterization of random AC magnetic fields using a single Nitrogen-Vacancy center", A. Laraoui, J.S. Hodges, C.A. Meriles, Appl. Phys. Lett. 97, 143104 (2010). Available as arXiv:1009.0316.

"Imaging mesoscopic nuclear spin noise with a diamond magnetometer", C.A. Meriles, J. Liang, G. Goldstein, P. Cappellaro, J. Hodges, J. Maze, M.D. Lukin, J. Chem. Phys. 133, 124105 (2010).Available as arXiv:1004.5426.

"Dependence of electron spin relaxation times on the crystal orientation of CdTe grown on (100)ZnSe/GaAs substrates", Q. Zhang, Y. Li, X. Liu, D. Pagliero, A. Shen, C.A. Meriles, M.C. Tamargo, Phys. Stat. Sol. (c) 7, 1665 (2010).

"Controlled growth of (001) or (111) CdTe epitaxial layers on (001) GaAs by molecular beam epitaxy and study of their electron spin relaxation times", Q. Zhang, Y. Li, D. Pagliero, W. Charles, A. Shen, C.A. Meriles, M.C. Tamargo, J. Vac. Sci. Technol. 28, C3D1 (2010).

"Optical pumping of nuclear magnetization in GaAs/AlGaAs quantum wells of variable electron density", B. Li, P. Coles, J.A. Reimer, P. Dawson, C.A. Meriles, Sol. State Comm. 150, 450 (2010).


2009
"Helicity-independent optical pumping of nuclear magnetization in bulk CdTe", W. Dong, B. Li, Q. Zhang, M.C. Tamargo, C.A. Meriles, Phys. Rev. B 80, 045211 (2009).

"Control of crystal orientation of CdTe epitaxial layers grown on (001) GaAs with ZnSe buffer layer by molecular beam epitaxy", Q. Zhang, W. Charles, B. Li, A. Shen, C.A. Meriles, M.C. Tamargo, J. Cryst. Growth, 311, 2603 (2009).

"Detection of long-range dipole-dipole interactions between nuclear spins in distant solids", W. Dong, C.A. Meriles, Chem. Phys. Lett. 470, 313 (2009).

"Ex-Situ magnetic resonance volume imaging", V. Demas, J. Franck, L. Bouchard, D. Sakellariou, C.A. Meriles, R.W. Martin, J.A. Reimer, A. Pines, Chem. Phys. Lett. 467, 398 (2009).

"Optical detection of NMR in organic fluids", C.A. Meriles, Concepts Magn. Reson.Part A 32A, 79 (2009).