Xufeng Zhang
Assistant Professor,
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Center Member,
Institute for Intelligent Networked Systems (INSI)
Contact
- xu.zhang@northeastern.edu
- 409 DA
360 Huntington Ave
Boston, MA 02115
Office
- 750C EXP
- 617-373-5624
Research Focus
Spin wave dynamics and hybrid magnonic devices from GHz to THz
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 in 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 and hybrid magnonic devices from GHz to THz
Selected Research Projects
- Boosting Radios’ ReSilience to Interference by Harnessing Magnon-Phonon Coupling In the First ElectromechanicaL SpinPhonic Devices (SHIELD)
- – co-Principal Investigator, National Science Foundation
- Cryogenically Enabled Ultrabroadband THz System-on-a-Chip
- – PI, Office of Naval Research
Department Research Areas
Selected Publications
- Jing Xu, Changchun Zhong, Shihao Zhuang, Chen Qian, Yu Jiang, Amin Pishehvar, Xu Han, Dafei Jin, Josep M. Jornet, Bo Zhen, Jiamian Hu, Liang Jiang, and Xufeng Zhang, “Slow-wave hybrid magnonics,” Physical Review Letters132, 116701 (2024).
- Jing Xu, Changchun Zhong, Shihao Zhuang, Chen Qian, Yu Jiang, Amin Pishehvar, Xu Han, Dafei Jin, Josep M. Jornet, Bo Zhen, Jiamian Hu, Liang Jiang, and Xufeng Zhang, “Slow-wave hybrid magnonics,” Physical Review Letters 132, 116701 (2024).
- X. Zhou, X. Li, Q. Chen, G. Koolstra, G. Yang, B. Dizdar, Y. Huang, C. S. Wang, X. Han, X. Zhang, D. I. Schuster and D. Jin, ” Electron charge qubit with 0.1 millisecond coherence time“, Nature Physics 20, 116 (2024).
- X. Zhou, G. Koolstra, X. Zhang, G. Yang, X. Han, B. Dizdar, X. Li, D. Ralu, W. Guo, K. W. Murch, D. I. Schuster, and D. Jin, “Single electrons on solid neon as a solid-state qubit platform”, Nature 605, 46 (2022).
- J. Xu, C. Zhong, X. Han, D. Jin, L. Jiang, and X. Zhang, “Coherent gate operations in hybrid magnonics”, Physical Review Letters 126, 207202 (2021).
- R. Kleiner, X. Zhou, E. Dorsch, X. Zhang, D. Koelle, and D. Jin, “Space-time crystalline order of a high-critical-temperature superconductor with intrinsic Josephson junctions”, Nature Communication 12, 6038 (2021).
- Jing Xu, Changchun Zhong, Xu Han, Dafei Jin, Liang Jiang, and Xufeng Zhang, “Floquet Cavity Electromagnonics,” Physical Review Letters 125, 237201 (2020).
- Xianjing Zhou, Xu Han, Dieter Koelle, Reinhold Kleiner, Xufeng Zhang, and Dafei Jin, “On-chip sensing of hotspots in superconducting terahertz emitters,” Nano Letters 20, 4197 (2020).
- X. Zhang, K. Ding, X. Zhou, J. Xu, and D. Jin, “Experimental observation of an exceptional surface in synthetic dimensions with magnon polaritons,” Physical Review Letters 123, 237202 (2019).
Aug 11, 2026
Innovative Magnonic Resonator Design Advances Compact and Energy-Efficient Microwave Signal Platforms
ECE Assistant Professor Xufeng Zhang’s research on “Generation of ultra-broadband frequency comb in strongly bistable nonlinear magnonic resonator” was published in Nature Communications.
Aug 05, 2026
Patent for Innovative System to Boost Speed and Efficiency in Quantum Computing
ECE Assistant Professor Xufeng Zhang was awarded a patent for “Slow-wave hybrid magnonics based on interacting magnons and spoof surface plasmon polaritons.”
Jul 30, 2026
Advancing High Sensitivity Hybrid Magnonic Sensors
ECE Assistant Professor Xufeng Zhang, in collaboration with Wei Zhang from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, was awarded a $655K NSF grant for “Hybrid Active Magnonic Magnetometry with Enhanced Resolution (HAMMER).”
Sep 23, 2025
2025 Stanford University Annual Assessment of Author Citations
The following COE professors are among the top scientists worldwide selected by Stanford University representing the top 2% of the most-cited scientists with single-year impact in various disciplines. The selection is based on the top 100,000 by c-score (with and without self-citations) or a percentile rank of 2% or above.
May 12, 2025
Northeastern’s Boston Campus Hosts Inaugural Magnetics Workshop
The Inaugural NU Cross-College Magnetics Center Workshop, hosted at Northeastern’s Boston campus on May 7, 2025, brought together dozens of participants from the university’s Boston, Burlington, and Portland campuses.
Apr 03, 2025
Making Wireless Signals More Resistant to Interference
ECE Associate Professor Cristian Cassella and Assistant Professor Xufeng Zhang were awarded a $500,000 NSF grant for “Boosting Radios’ ReSilience to Interference by Harnessing Magnon-Phonon Coupling In the First ElectromechanicaL SpinPhonic Devices (SHIELD).” They are enhancing a wireless transceiver’s resilience against electromagnetic interference in the 5G and 6G realms in order to transmit data at extremely high rates.
Jan 31, 2025
2024 Stanford University Annual Assessment of Author Citations
The following COE professors are among the top scientists worldwide selected by Stanford University representing the top 2% of the most-cited scientists with single-year impact in various disciplines. The selection is based on the top 100,000 by c-score (with and without self-citations) or a percentile rank of 2% or above. The list below includes those who published a paper in 2024 or later.
Mar 27, 2024
Exploring Dissipation Engineering in Hybrid Magnonic Systems
ECE Assistant Professor Xufeng Zhang, in collaboration with Boston University, was awarded a $420,000 NSF grant for “Harnessing Magnonic Nonreciprocity Through Dissipation Engineering.” They will investigate the principals of energy dissipation in magnonic systems and engineering approaches for manipulating dissipations.
Dec 07, 2023
2023 Stanford University Annual Assessment of Author Citations
The following COE professors are among the top scientists worldwide selected by Stanford University representing the top 2% of the most-cited scientists with single-year impact in various disciplines. The selection is based on the top 100,000 by c-score (with and without self-citations) or a percentile rank of 2% or above.
Nov 02, 2023
Quantum Computing Discovery Improves Processing Time, Accuracy
Xufeng Zhang, ECE assistant professor, in collaboration with Argonne National Laboratory and the University of Notre Dame, completed research to improve quantum computing performance by isolating qubits and reducing exposure to performance-altering noise. A research paper was published in Nature Physics.