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THOMAS KENT PLANT |
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Education
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1975 |
Ph.D., Electrical Engineering |
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1969
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M.S., Solid State Physics |
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1968
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B.S., Physics |
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Professional Experience
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Academic
1978-1982 |
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1982-present
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Associate Professor |
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1985-1986
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Visiting Research Professor Sheffield University, Sheffield, England |
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July-Sept 1995
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Visiting Professor Helsinki Technical University, Helsinki, Finland |
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Oct-Dec 1995
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Visiting Research Professor Stuttgart University, Stuttgart, Germany |
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Patents
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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. |
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Selected Publications
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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. |
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Professional Activities and Service
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Sigma Xi, Phi Kappa Phi, Pi Mu Epsilon, Phi Eta Sigma IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) - Senior Member |
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Primary Teaching Responsibilities
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ECE/PH 482, ECE /PH 483, ECE/PH592, ENGR 202 Lab |
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School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1148 Kelley Engineering Center |