THOMAS KENT PLANT
Associate Professor

Education
 

1975

Ph.D., Electrical Engineering
University of Illinois (Champaign-Urbana)

1969

M.S., Solid State Physics
Iowa State University

1968

B.S., Physics
Kansas State University

Professional Experience
 
Academic
1978-1982


Assistant Professor
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon

1982-present

Associate Professor
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon

1985-1986
Visiting Research Professor
Sheffield University, Sheffield, England
July-Sept 1995
Visiting Professor
Helsinki Technical University, Helsinki, Finland
Oct-Dec 1995
Visiting Research Professor
Stuttgart University, Stuttgart, Germany
Patents

Stark-Tuned Laser Modulator, (with C.K. Asawa), U.S. Patent #4,085,287, issued April 18, 1978

Laser Beam Position Monitor, (with H.R Friedrich), Hughes Aircraft Co., disclosure #PD78011. Patent application filed October 1980.

Selected Publications

K. Lite, R.L. Thuemler, T.K. Plant, J.F. Wager, D.C. Morton, S-S. Sun, R.H. Mauch, "Vacuum Ultra-Violet Reflectivity Measurements of Thin-Film Electroluminescent Phosphors," Appl. Phys. Lett.,69, pp. 3525-3527, 1996.

K. Stump, T.K. Plant, and Y. Sun, "Variable wavelength fibre Bragg gratings written with diffractive optical element," Electron. Letts., 36, pp. 567-569, 2000.

Wei Kong and T.K. Plant, "A Simple Approach to Double the Effective Length of an Optical Cavity," submitted to Optics Letters.

J. Liu, E.J. Swenson, and T.K. Plant, "Effects of Laser-Induced Plasma/Plume on UV Laser Ablation," submitted to Journal of Applied Physics.

B. A. Cleary, P. D. Keir, J. C. Hitt, T. K. Plant, J. F. Wager, B. Aitchison, R. T.Tuenge, and S. S. Sun, Subthreshold Voltage-Induced Transferred Charge Analysis of ZnS:Mn TFEL Devices, 9th International Workshop on Inorganic and Organic Electroluminesence and Fourth International Conference on the Science and Technology of Display Phosphors, Bend, Oregon, September 14-17, 1998.

C. A. Nevers, B. A. Cleary, T. K. Plant, J. F. Wager , S. Moehnke, and R. T. Tuenge, Photo-Induced Charge and Luminesence Measurements of ALE SrS:Ce TFEL Devices, 9th International Workshop on Inorganic and Organic Electroluminesence and Fourth International Conference on the Science and Technology of Display Phosphors, Bend, Oregon, September 14-17, 1998. (poster paper)

T.K. Plant, Optical Measurements of ACTFEL Devices (Invited Paper), Fifth International Conference on the Science and Technology of Display Phosphors, San Diego, California, Nov 8-11, 1999.

Professional Activities and Service

 

Sigma Xi, Phi Kappa Phi, Pi Mu Epsilon, Phi Eta Sigma
Past President (Current Pres-elect) of Optical Society of America, Columbia Section
Loyd Carter Award (OSU College of Engineering award for outstanding and inspirational teaching) 1991
Intel Fellow 2001
Technical reviewer for:
IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics
IEEE Photonics Technology Letters
AIP Journal of Applied Physics
Journal of the Society for Information Display

SBIR technical review panels for National Science Foundation (4) National Science Foundation
Addison-Wesley, McGraw-Hill, Simon & Schuster, PWS Publishing Co., McGraw-Hill, and Brooks/Cole Publishing Co. 1988 - 2000:
Student Branch Advisor for OSU ECE IEEE Student Branch

IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) - Senior Member
OSA (Optical Society of America) - Member
1980, 2001 President Elect, Columbia Section
ASEE (American Society of Engineering Education) - Member

Primary Teaching Responsibilities
ECE/PH 482, ECE /PH 483, ECE/PH592, ENGR 202 Lab
   
   
   

School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1148 Kelley Engineering Center
Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR 97331-5501
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