Ph. D. Electrical Engineering, Yale University, USAM. S. Electromagnetic Field & Microwave Technology, Zhejiang University, ChinaB. S. Electronic & Information Engineering, Zhejiang University, China

Henry Prentiss Becton Graduate Prize (exceptional achievement in research), Yale University, May 2016

Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-Financed Students Studying Abroad, February, 2016

GMAG Best Student Presentation Award Finalist, 59th MMM Conference (San Diego), January 2016

Best Student Presentation Award Finalist, IFC Symposium (Baltimore), May 2012

Spin wave (magnonics) device physics; Hybrid magnonics in quantum and coherent information processing Novel nano-device design and fabrication for on-chip information processing Integrated photonics, optomechanics, and surface plasmonics Environmental sensor and sensor networks

Argonne National Laboratory - Center for Nanoscale Materials (CNM) 2018-presentAssistant Scientist

Argonne National Laboratory - Center for Nanoscale Materials (CNM) 2016-2017Argonne Scholar – Nikola Tesla Postdoctoral Fellow

X. Zhang, N. Zhu, C. Zou, and H. Tang, “Optomagnonic whispering gallery microresonators,” Physical Review Letters 117, 123605 (2016)

X. Zhang, C.-L. Zou, L. Jiang, and H. X. Tang, “Cavity magnomechanics”, Science Advances 2, e1501286 (2016)

N. Zhu, X. Zhang, I. Froning, M. Flatté, E. Johnston-Halperin, H. Tang, “Low loss spin wave resonances in organic-based ferrimagnet vanadium tetracyanoethylene thin films,” Applied Physics Letter 109, 082402 (2016)

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XUFENG ZHANG Center for Nanoscale MaterialsBuilding 440, Room A143Phone: 630-252-4721Fax: 630-252-5739E-mail: xufeng@anl.gov

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XUFENG ZHANG X. Zhang, C.-L. Zou, N. Zhu, F. Marquardt, L. Jiang, and H. X. Tang, “Magnon dark modes and

gradient memory”, Nature Communications 6, 8914(2015)

X. Zhang, C.-L. Zou, L. Jiang, H. X. Tang, “Strongly coupled magnons and cavity microwave photons”, Physical Review Letters 113, 156401(2014)

X. Zhang, T. Liu, M. E. Flatté, and H. X. Tang, “Electric-field coupling to spin waves in a centrosymmetric ferrite”, Physical Review Letters 113, 037202(2014). Selected as Editors’ suggestion. Featured on Physics synopsis.

X. Han, C. Xiong, K. Fong, X. Zhang, and H. Tang, “Triply resonant cavity electrooptomechanics at X-band,” New Journal of Physics 38, 2810 (2014).

X. Sun, X. Zhang, C. Schuck, and H. Tang, “Nonlinear optical effects of ultrahigh-Q silicon photonic nanocavities immersed in superfluid helium,” Scientific Reports 3, 1436 (2013)

X. Zhang, X. Sun, and H. X. Tang, “A 1.16-µm-radius disk cavity in a sunflower-type circular photonic crystal with ultrahigh quality factor”, Optics Letters 15, 3195 (2012)

X. Sun, X. Zhang, M. Poot, C. Xiong, and H. Tang, “A superhigh-frequency optoelectromechanical system based on a slotted photonic crystal cavity,” Applied Physics Letters 101, 221116 (2012).

X. Sun, X. Zhang, and H. Tang, “High-Q silicon optomechanical microdisk resonators at gigahertz frequencies,” Applied Physics Letters 100, 173116 (2012)

Z. Gao, X. Zhang, and L. Shen, “Wedge mode of spoof surface plasmon polaritons at terahertzfrequencies,” Journal of Applied Physics 108, 113104 (2010)

X. Zhang, L. Shen, and L. Ran, “Low-frequency surface plasmon polaritons propagating alonga metal film with periodic cut-through slits in symmetric or asymmetric environments,” Journal of Applied Physics 105, 013704 (2009)