Charles D. Merritt

Charles D. Merritt was born in San Bernardino, CA, USA. He received the B.S. degree in chemistry from the University of California at Riverside, Riverside, CA, USA, and the Ph.D. degree in chemistry from The Catholic University of America. He has been with the Naval Research Laboratory since 1987. During that time he has worked in the areas of energetic materials reaction mechanisms, optical phenomena of aerosol droplets, matrix isolation spectroscopy of reactive intermediates, organic light emitting diode characterization, photonic crystal fiber fabrication and testing, aerosol particle capture technology, and mid-IR semiconductor lasers characterization. His 58 refereed journal articles have a citation H-index of 25.