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Xu Zhang

Xu Zhang

Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Address 5000 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15213

Bio

Prof. Xu Zhang joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) as a tenure-track assistant professor in September 2019. He received his PhD and Master’s degrees in electrical engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and a bachelor’s degree in physics from University of Science and Technology of China (USTC). From 2017 to 2018, he worked as a postdoctoral associate at Microsystems Technology Laboratories (MTL) at MIT. After that, Prof. Zhang worked as an Enrico Fermi Fellow at the Argonne National Laboratory from 2018 to 2019.

Education

Ph.D., 2017
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

M.S., 2012
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

B.S., 2010
Physics
University of Science and Technology of China

Research

Dr. Zhang’s research interests are to enable new paradigms of nano-devices and their system-level integration, by leveraging the emerging nanomaterials (e.g. atomically thin 2D crystals) and nanotechnology. The scope of research encompasses the building blocks of energy conversion, sensing, actuation, communication and signal conditioning. The target applications include (but not limit to): flexible and adaptive electronics, tunable metalens and energy harvester, etc.

Keywords

  • Atomically Thin 2D Materials
  • Flexible Electronics
  • Energy Harvesting
  • High Frequency Electronics
  • Metalens/Flatlens
  • MEMS

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New faculty members join the ECE community

The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering ushers in the 2019-2020 academic year with four new faculty members, strengthening the innovative research fields of microsystems, nanotechnology, and cybersecurity.
Tuesday, May 28, 2019

Rectennas: converting radio waves into electricity

We are constantly surrounded by energy in the form of electromagnetic waves. Wouldn’t it be nice if we could take advantage of it? In a recently published paper in the journal Nature, a future Carnegie Mellon University faculty member, Dr. Xu Zhang, and co-authors describe a novel device that can charge electronics using the energy from radio frequency waves, including Wi-Fi signals.