Dr Liang Zhang
Research Fellow
Physics
Personal statement
Personal statement
I received the Ph.D. degree in physics from the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK in 2012.
As a researcher, I have experience working on a variety of research projects including gyrotron travelling wave amplifiers, plasma filled microwave sources, microwave pulse compression and free electron lasers. I have led the development of gyro-TWAs in terms of design, computational simulation techniques and laboratory experimentation. I have carried out world-leading experiments of high power broadband mm-wave/THz amplifiers that have great potential in EPR/DNP and mm-wave wireless and satellite communications. I have successfully demonstrated a world-record 88-104GHz continuously tuneable, high power (10kW) Gyro-BWO experiment (2012), and a gyro-amplifier achieving 3.4kW with a 3dB instantaneous frequency bandwidth of at least 5.5GHz at W-band (2017).
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Prize And Awards
- IEEE senior member
- Recipient
- 10/2019
- IEEE member
- Recipient
- 8/2019
- 20th International Vacuum Electronics Conference (IVEC 2019) Best Poster Award
- Recipient
- 1/5/2019
- Overseas Research Students Award (ORSAS)
- Recipient
- 1/10/2008
- Scottish Universities Physics Alliance (SUPA) prize studentship
- Recipient
- 2/3/2007
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Publications
- Efficient 94GHz Cherenkov radiation source with a multistage energy recovery system
- MacLachlan Amy J, Zhang Liang, Konoplev Ivan V, Phelps Alan D R, Robertson Craig W, MacInnes Philip, Whyte Colin G, Ronald Kevin, Cross Adrian W, Henderson Mark A
- 2025 26th International Vacuum Electronics Conference (IVEC) 2025 26th International Vacuum Electronics Conference (IVEC), pp. 1-3 (2025)
- https://doi.org/10.1109/ivec63678.2025.11115321
- Modulated cusp electron gun for millimeter-wave gyro-amplifiers
- Donaldson Craig R, Zhang Liang, Robertson Craig W, Ronald Kevin, Whyte Colin G
- 2025 26th International Vacuum Electronics Conference (IVEC) 2025 26th International Vacuum Electronics Conference (IVEC), pp. 1-2 (2025)
- https://doi.org/10.1109/ivec63678.2025.11115784
- Cherenkov THz demonstrator with multistage depressed collector driven by oversized annular electron beam : concept and first steps toward experiment
- Konoplev IV, MacLachlan AJ, Zhang Liang, Rowley C, Young L, Bartley E, Ronald K, Phelps ADR, Lewtas H
- 2025 Photonics North (PN) 2025 Photonics North (PN) Photonics North (PN) Proceedings Vol 2025 (2025)
- https://doi.org/10.1109/pn66844.2025.11097165
- Plasma channel development in polymineralic and porous rock aggregates
- Wong T, MacPherson R, Timoshkin I, MacGregor S, Zhang L, Speirs DC, Whyte CG, MacLachlan AJ, Ronald K, Bingham B, Konoplev IV, Eves S, Bamford R
- IEEE Pulsed Power & Plasma Science Conference 2025 (2025)
- Research of millimetre-wave undulator at 94 GHz
- Zhang Liang, Clarke Jim, Donaldson Craig R, Robertson Craig W, Whyte Colin G, Ronald Kevin, Cross Ardrian W
- 2025 26th International Vacuum Electronics Conference (IVEC) 2025 26th International Vacuum Electronics Conference (IVEC), pp. 1-2 (2025)
- https://doi.org/10.1109/ivec63678.2025.11115448
- Sub-THz and THz Cherenkov radiation source with two-dimensional periodic surface lattice and multistage depressed collector
- MacLachlan Amy J, Zhang Liang, Konoplev Ivan V, Phelps Alan D R, Robertson Craig W, MacInnes Philip, Whyte Colin G, Ronald Kevin, Cross Adrian W, Henderson Mark A
- Scientific Reports Vol 14 (2024)
- https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-74374-9
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Research Interests
Broadband, high power, mm-wave/terahertz gyrotron travelling wave amplifiers for next-generation magnetic resonance spectroscopy, telecommunications, security imaging and radar; Gyrotron backward wave oscillator; Conventional travelling wave amplifiers; Electron beam generation; Beam-wave interaction, Low-pressure gas discharge; Plasma filled high power microwave sources; Free electron lasers and pulsed power technologies.
Professional Activities
- Research of Millimetre-wave Undulator at 94 GHz
- Speaker
- 17/4/2025
- Modulated cusp electron gun for millimeter-wave gyro-amplifiers
- Contributor
- 15/4/2025
- Optimization and measurement of an orthomode input coupling system for W-band gyro-amplifiers
- Contributor
- 24/4/2024
- Helically corrugated interaction regions for W-band gyrotron-Traveling Wave Amplifiers
- Contributor
- 20/9/2023
- High-power millimeter-wave/THz source and its application in accelerators
- Speaker
- 12/12/2022
- Characteristics of pseudospark discharge and its applications
- Speaker
- 21/11/2022
Projects
- Drilling and Integrated GigaHertz-Generated Energy Resource DIGGER
- Ronald, Kevin (Principal Investigator) MacGregor, Scott (Co-investigator) Timoshkin, Igor (Co-investigator) Whyte, Colin (Co-investigator) Wilson, Mark (Co-investigator) Speirs, David (Research Co-investigator) Zhang, Liang (Research Co-investigator)
- 14-Jan-2024 - 13-Jan-2025
- Sheet electron beam vacuum electronic devices for the generation of high power THz radiation
- Cross, Adrian (Principal Investigator) He, Wenlong (Co-investigator) Phelps, Alan (Co-investigator) Zhang, Liang (Research Co-investigator)
- 05-Jan-2019 - 04-Jan-2021
- A modular, integrated electron gun and RF cavity for radiotherapy treatment systems in developing countries (AfricanRTT)
- Cross, Adrian (Principal Investigator) Zhang, Liang (Research Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2018 - 31-Jan-2019
- Terahertz High-Harmonic Gyrotron Oscillator By Using Metasurface Cylindrical Cavity (Newton Advanced Fellowship - Prof Chao-Hai Du)
- Cross, Adrian (Principal Investigator) Zhang, Liang (Research Co-investigator)
- Dr. Liang Zhang is responsible for scientific discussion and experimental arrangement with Prof. Du for the THz high-harmonic gyrotron oscillator.
- 28-Jan-2018 - 27-Jan-2022
- Compact Light (XLS) H2020 INFRADEV-2016-2017
- Cross, Adrian (Principal Investigator) Ronald, Kevin (Co-investigator) Zhang, Liang (Research Co-investigator)
- University Strathclyde is responsible for the design of high power microwave sources to drive the lineariser, as well as the exploration of next-generation exotic undulator.
Dr. Liang Zhang is leading the design of a MW-level 48 GHz gyroklystron, as well as investigating the potentials of microwave undulators. - 01-Jan-2018 - 31-Jan-2020
- Doctoral Training Partnership (DTP 2016-2017 University of Strathclyde) | Nix, Laurence
- Cross, Adrian (Principal Investigator) Zhang, Liang (Co-investigator) Nix, Laurence (Research Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2017 - 19-Jan-2021