Xufeng Zhang
Assistant Professor,
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Contact
- xu.zhang@northeastern.edu
- 409 DA
360 Huntington Ave
Boston, MA 02115
Office
- 412 ISEC
- 617-373-5624
Research Focus
Spin wave dynamics; magnon-based coherent information processing; quantum hybrid magnonics; integrated microwave, photonic, magnonic, and mechanical devices
About
Dr. Xufeng Zhang received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Yale University in 2016. After graduation, he joined Argonne National Laboratory as the Nikola Tesla Named Postdoctoral Fellow, and was promoted as an Assistant Scientist as of 2018. He has a diverse research interest in device physics and applications, with a main focus on experimental study of spin wave dynamics and magnonic devices hybridized with microwave/photonics/mechanics for coherent and quantum information processing.
Education
- PhD, Electrical Engineering, Yale University, 2016
Honors & Awards
- Young Investigator Program Award, Office of Naval Research, 2022
Research Overview
Spin wave dynamics; magnon-based coherent information processing; quantum hybrid magnonics; integrated microwave, photonic, magnonic, and mechanical devices
Selected Research Projects
- Cryogenically Enabled Ultrabroadband THz System-on-a-Chip
- – PI, Office of Naval Research
Selected Publications
- Jing Xu, Changchun Zhong, Xu Han, Dafei Jin, Liang Jiang, and Xufeng Zhangy, “Floquet
Cavity Electromagnonics,” Physical Review Letters 125, 237201 (2020). - Xianjing Zhou, Xu Han, Dieter Koelle, Reinhold Kleiner, Xufeng Zhangy, and Dafei Jin,
“On-chip sensing of hotspots in superconducting terahertz emitters,” Nano Letters 20,
4197 (2020). - Na Zhu, Xufeng Zhang, Xu Han, Chang-Ling Zou, Changchun Zhong, Chiao-Hsuan
Wang, Liang Jiang, and Hong Tang, “Waveguide cavity optomagnonics for broadband
multimode microwave-to-optics conversion,” Optica 7, 1291 (2020). - Xufeng Zhangy, Alexey Galda, Xu Han, Dafei Jin, and V.M. Vinokur, “Broadband nonreciprocity
enabled by strong coupling of magnons and microwave photons,” Physical
Review Applied 13, 044039 (2020). Editors’ suggestion. - Matthew Otten, Xianjing Zhou, Xufeng Zhang, and Dafei Jin, “Coherent Manipulation
of Single Electrons with Optical Photons in Condensed Helium-4 ,” Advanced Theory and
Simulations 3, 2000008 (2020). Cover story.
Sep 28, 2022
Zhang Receives ONR YIP Award to Develop THz System-on-a-Chip
ECE Assistant Professor Xufeng Zhang was awarded an Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Program Award for “Cryogenically Enabled Ultrabroadband THz System-on-a-Chip.” With its comprehensive on-chip signal processing capabilities including THz generation, routing, manipulation, and detection, novel THz SOCs will be suitable for a broad range of applications such as THz wireless communication and sensing without any off-chip components.
Jun 24, 2022
New Quantum Bit Platform Points to new Direction for Low-Cost, Large-Scale Quantum Computers
A paper, titled “Single electrons on solid neon as a solid-state qubit platform,” published in the journal Nature by Assistant Professor Xufeng Zhang, electrical and computer engineering, who had a key contribution in the quantum microwave measurements, and researchers at Argonne National Lab and other collaborative institutions, demonstrates a fundamentally new quantum bit (qubit) platform.
Jan 03, 2022
New Faculty Spotlight: Xufeng Zhang
Xufeng Zhang joins the Electrical and Computer Engineering department in January 2022 as an Assistant Professor.