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Dr Jin Zhang, AFHEA, MIEEE

Jin

Lecturer in Microwave Electronics

Email: jin.zhang@qmul.ac.uk
Room Number: E256, Engineering Building
Website: https://www.eecs.qmul.ac.uk/~jinz/

Profile

Qualifications

  • Associate Fellow of the High Education Academy (AFHEA)
  • PhD in Physical Electronics
  • Fellow of Royal Astronomical Society.

Teaching

Undergraduate Teaching at QMUL (QMUL-BUPT Joint Programme)

  • EBU6366: Microwave, Millimetre Wave, and Optical Transmission - year 3 module.
  • EBU6408: Sensors and Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) - year 3 module.
  • EBU6475: Microprocessor Systems Design - year 3 module.
  • EBU5476: Microprocessor for Embedded Computing - year 3 module.

Supervision of Undergraduate Projects

QMUL (London)

  • Microwave Enabling Nuclear Fusion. (Summer Training Research Initiative to support Diversity and Equality, STRIDE)

QMUL (QMUL-BUPT JP, Beijing)

  • Terahertz (THz) travelling wave tube for next generation wireless communications.
  • Millemetre-wave spatial harmonic magnetron working at π-mode.
  • Wideband millimetre-wave Backward Wave Oscillator.
  • High-gain microwave patch antenna as transmitting antenna for wireless power transfer.
  • Microwave patch antenna as receiving antenna for wireless power transfer.

PhD Students

  • Recruiting...

 

Research

Research Interests:

Generation of high-power micro/millimetre (mm)/THz waves and their space applications
1. Microwave wireless power transfer (WPT) to beam solar energy from space, developing steerable high-gain antennas for directional power beaming, building a high-efficiency microwave WPT system using vector phased antenna array transmitter and reflector array rectenna. Funded by UK Department for BEIS.
2. THz/infrared (IR)/ultraviolet (UV) spectroscopy for space exploration
THz/IR/UV spectroscopy on organic molecules under reproduced astrophysical conditions at large facilities, including the free-electron laser FELIX Laboratory in the Netherlands, the synchrotron ASTRID2 in Denmark, and the ion accelerator in Hungary, to study the formation and survivability of prebiotic molecules in star-forming regions in space and in our Solar System. 
3. Generation of high-power micro/mm/THz waves using vacuum electronic devices (EPSRC-funded), including high-power mm-wave space harmonic magnetron, high-power THz double staggered grating (DSG) backward-wave oscillator (BWO) driven by high-brightness pseudospark-sourced sheet electron beam, novel double non-parallel staggered grating (DNPSG) slow-wave structure (SWS) with improved output power in wide frequency band.

Publications

Peer-reviewed journal papers
Peer-reviewed conference papers
  • Jin Zhang, Lei Zhang, Jinyan Wang, Yanmei Wang, Xiaohan Sun*, Jinjun Feng, Baoliang Hao, "A Novel Method for Testing the Inner Temperature of Helix TWT under Operation using FBG," 2019 IEEE International Vacuum Electronics Conference (IVEC), Busan, Korea (South), 2019, pp. 1-2.
  • Jin Zhang, Jinyan Wang, Xiaohan Sun*, Baoliang Hao, Lei Zhang, Yanmei Wang, Jinjun Feng, "Impacts of an embedded fiber inside a Helix TWT on its performance," 2018 IEEE International Vacuum Electronics Conference (IVEC), Monterey, CA, USA, 2018, pp. 341-342.
  • Jin Zhang, Huiyu Yuan, Xingqun Zhao, Ningfeng Bai, Changsheng Shen, Hehong Fan, Xiaohan Sun*,Bo Chen, Jinjun Feng, Tiechang Yan, "Full Thermal Analyses for Slow-Wave Structure in Helix-TWT under Operation," 2017 IEEE International Vacuum Electronics Conference (IVEC), London, UK, 2017, pp. 1-2.
  • Jin Zhang, Feng Wang, Huiyu Yuan, Ningfeng Bai, Hehong Fan, Xiaohan Sun*, Bo Chen, Jinjun Feng, Tiechang Yan, "Impacts of cubic Boron Nitride (CBN) support rods on TWT performance," 2016 IEEE International Vacuum Electronics Conference (IVEC), Monterey, CA, USA, 2016, pp. 1-2.
  • Jin Zhang, Feng Wang, Huiyu Yuan, Pu Wei, Xiaohan Sun*, Yanmei Wang, Bo Chen, Jinjun Feng, Tiechang Yan, "Impact of FBG array embedded on/in helix support rods on TWT performance," 2015 IEEE International Vacuum Electronics Conference (IVEC), Beijing, China, 2015, pp. 1-2.
  • Jin Zhang, Huabi Yin, Tianzhong Zhang, Yasir Alfadhl, Xiaodong Chen*, Adrian Cross, Wenlong He and Jie Xie, "Design of 0.365-THz Backward Wave Oscillator using Staggered Double Grating SWS and Sheet Beam," 2019 12th IEEE UK-Europe-China Workshop on Millimeter Waves and Terahertz Technologies (UCMMT), London, UK, 2019, pp. 1-3.
  • Jinyan Wang, Jin Zhang,Suiren Wan and Xiaohan Sun, "Effect of Thermal Deformation on Thermal Contact Resistance Between Helix and Support Rods in Helix TWT," 2019 International Vacuum Electronics Conference (IVEC), Busan, Korea (South), 2019, pp. 1-2.
  • Jinyan Wang, Jin Zhang, Suiren Wan and Xiaohan Sun, "Performance analysis for segmented multiple support rods helix TWT suppressing thermal deformation," 2018 IEEE International Vacuum Electronics Conference (IVEC), Monterey, CA, USA, 2018, pp. 127-128.
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