Jensen, Kevin
EDUCATION
- Ph.D., Physics, New York University, 1987
- M.S., Physics, New York University, 1983
- B.S., Applied Physics and Nuclear Engineering, Columbia University, 1981
BACKGROUND
Kevin L. Jensen received the B.S. degree in applied physics from Columbia University, new York, in 1981, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in physics from new York University, New York, in 1984 and 1987, respectively. In 1987, he joined the Naval Research Laboratory as an NRC post-doc. Inn 1990, he became a member of the Vacuum Electronics Branch, for theoretical work on emission properties of electron sources, and has been with the Materials and Systems Branch since 2015. His research interests are in quantum transport and electron emission physics (field, thermionic, and photo-emission) in relation to, e.g., rf vacuum electronics, space-based applications, and free electron lasers. He has authored and coauthored over 150 publications (peer reviewed journal articles, book chapters, and encyclopedia articles), co-edited three Proceedings volumes for the Materials Research Society and the Electrochemical Society on cold cathodes, was guest editor for the "Special Issue on Vacuum Microelectronics" in Solid State Electronics 45 (6), (2001), is on the conference committees of the International Vacuum Electron sources Conference (IVESC) and the International Vacuum Nanoelectronics Conference (IVNC), and was co-chair of the 3013 IVNC. He has written two books (Electron Emission Physics (Academic Press, 2007) and Introduction to Electron Emission Physics (Wiley, 2017)). He was a Plenary Speaker for the joint 2012 IVEC-IVESC Conference in Monterey, CA, tutorial speaker at several IVNC and at the 2017 ICOPS (Atlantic City, NJ). In 2009 he became a Fellow of the American Physical Society. In 2022, he was accepted into the Sigma Xi - Edison Branch (NRL) for Applied Physics. He retired from NRL in March 2023.