Dr Hangfeng Zhang
Postdoctoral Research Assistant
School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science
Queen Mary University of London
Queen Mary University of London
Member of Prof Yang Hao's Research Group
| Funder: | EPSRC Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council |
| Project: | Digital Transformation of Electromagnetic Material Design and Manufacturing for Future Wireless Connectivity (DREAM) |
Research
Ferroelectrics, Piezoelectric, Tunable dielectrics, Crystal structure, Neutron diffraction, Ceramics
Interests
My research expertise lies in the design, synthesis, and characterization of advanced functional ceramics, with a particular focus on ferroelectric, piezoelectric, and tunable dielectric materials. I specialize in structural analysis using X-ray and neutron diffraction, as well as the study of structure–property relationships to optimize material performance. My work combines solid-state chemistry, advanced materials processing techniques, and multi-scale characterization, aimed at developing next-generation materials for energy storage, sensing and wireless communication applications.Publications
Publications of specific relevance to the Centre for Electronics2025
Phase transformation in lead titanate based relaxor ferroelectrics with ultra-high strainZhang H, Li Z, Wang Y, Fortes AD, Saunders TG, Hao Y, Abrahams I, Yan H and Su L
Nature Communications, Springer Nature vol. 16 (1)
18-02-2025
Non-volatile voltage-controlled magnetization in single-phase multiferroic ceramics at room temperatureHu Z, Stenning GBG, Zhang H, Shi Y, Koval V, Hu W, Zhou Z, Jia C, Abrahams I and Yan H
Journal of Materiomics, Elsevier vol. 11 (1)
01-01-2025
2024
The effect of configurational entropy and refractory elements on the oxidation behaviour of high entropy carbides containing up to eight refractory elementsWang Y, Wang X, Zhang B, Zhang H and Reece MJ
Ceramics International, Elsevier vol. 50 (23), 51589-51595.
01-12-2024
Establishing room-temperature multiferroic behaviour in bismuth-based perovskitesCao J, Yang B, Smith G, Mahajan A, Zhang H, Lin Y, Yu C, Koval V, Zhang D, Shi Y, Jia C and Viola G
Materials & Design, Elsevier vol. 248
01-12-2024
Accelerated Discovery of Perovskite Solid Solutions through Automated Materials Synthesis and CharacterizationOmidvar M, Zhang H, Ihalage AA, Graves Saunders T, Giddens H, Forrester M, Haq S and Hao Y
Nature Communications, Nature Research
02-08-2024
Thermal properties and calcium-magnesium-alumino-silicate (CMAS) interaction of novel γ-phase ytterbium-doped yttrium disilicate (γ-Y1.5Yb0.5Si2O7) environmental barrier coating materialZhang B, Zhang H, Bai M, Du A, Owusu EB, Lynam A, Romero AR, Curry N and Hussain T
Advanced Composites and Hybrid Materials, Springer Nature vol. 7 (2)
01-04-2024
Origin of Polarization in Bismuth Sodium Titanate-Based CeramicsZhang H, Krynski M, Fortes AD, Saunders TG, Palma M, Hao Y, Krok F, Yan H and Abrahams I
Journal of The American Chemical Society, American Chemical Society vol. 146 (8), 5569-5579.
14-02-2024
2023
Carbon deficiency introduced plasticity of rock-salt-structured transition metal carbidesZhang B, Wang Y, Yin J, Zhang H, Csanádi T, Dusza J, Reece MJ, Lin N, Yang X, Liu X, Huang Z and Jiang D
Journal of Material Science and Technology, Elsevier vol. 164, 205-214.
01-11-2023
Microwave tunability in tin substituted barium titanateZhang H, Giddens H, Saunders TG, Palma M, Abrahams I, Yan H and Hao Y
Journal of The European Ceramic Society, Elsevier
17-10-2023
Structure and dielectric properties in Mg/Nb co-substituted bismuth sodium titanateZhang H, Yan H and Abrahams I
Journal of Alloys and Compounds, Elsevier vol. 969
05-10-2023
Microwave characterization of two Ba 0.6 Sr 0.4 TiO 3 dielectric thin films with out-of-plane and in-plane electrode structuresRuan H, Saunders TG, Giddens H, Zhang H, Ihalage AA, Kolb JF, Blunt M, Haq S, Yan H and Hao Y
Journal of Advanced Ceramics, Springeropen, 1-12.
18-07-2023
Enhanced piezoelectricity in Na and Ce co-doped CaBi 4 Ti 4 O 15 ceramics for high-temperature applicationsHu Z, Koval V, Zhang H, Chen K, Yue Y, Zhang D and Yan H
Journal of Advanced Ceramics, Tsinghua University Press vol. 12 (7), 1331-1344.
01-07-2023
Relaxor ferroelectric behaviour observed in (Ca0.5Sr0.5Ba0.5Pb0.5)Nb2O7 perovskite layered structure ceramicsHu Z, Zhang H, Reece MJ, Viola G and Yan H
Journal of The European Ceramic Society, Elsevier vol. 43 (1), 177-182.
01-01-2023
2022
Antiferroelectric-like Behavior in a Lead-Free Perovskite Layered Structure CeramicZhang H, Fortes AD, Giddens H, Saunders TG, Palma M, Abrahams I, Yan H and Hao Y
Inorganic Chemistry, American Chemical Society vol. 61 (50), 20316-20325.
06-12-2022
Deciphering the peculiar hysteresis loops of 0.05Pb(Mn1/3Sb2/3)O3–0.95Pb(Zr0.52Ti0.48)O3 piezoelectric ceramicsHu Z, Zhang H, Zhu Z, Zeng J, Zhang D, Eriksson M, Viola G and Yan H
Acta Materialia, Elsevier
02-12-2022
Low thermal conductivity in A-site high entropy perovskite relaxor ferroelectricXiong W, Zhang H, Hu Z, Reece MJ and Yan H
Applied Physics Letters, American Institute of Physics vol. 121 (11)
12-09-2022
Ablation behavior of (Hf–Ta–Zr–Nb–Ti)C high‐entropy carbide and (Hf–Ta–Zr–Nb–Ti)C–xSiC compositesWang Y, Yu D, Yin J, Zhang B, Zhang H, Liu X, An Y, Reece MJ and Huang Z
Journal of The American Ceramic Society, Wiley vol. 105 (10), 6395-6406.
23-06-2022
Synthesis, microstructure, and mechanical properties of novel high entropy carbonitridesWang Y, Csanádi T, Zhang H, Dusza J and Reece MJ
Acta Materialia, Elsevier vol. 231
01-06-2022
Chemical Solution Deposition of Single‐Phase BiFeO3 Thin Films on Transparent SubstratesWang Y, Zhang M, Yue Y, Zhang H, Mahajan A, Dunn S and Yan H
Solar Rrl, Wiley vol. 6 (7)
01-05-2022
2021
Terahertz Characterization of Lead-Free Dielectrics for Different ApplicationsZhang M, Zhang H, Jiang Q, Gao F, Chen R, Zhang D, Reece MJ, Yang B, Viola G and Yan H
Acs Applied Materials & Interfaces, American Chemical Society (Acs) vol. 13 (45), 53492-53503.
02-11-2021
Characterization of microwave and terahertz dielectric properties of single crystal La2Ti2O7 along one single directionZhang M, Tang Z, Zhang H, Smith G, Jiang Q, Saunders T, Yang B and Yan H
Journal of The European Ceramic Society
02-08-2021
Tunable phase transitions in NaNbOZhang L, Yan Z, Chen T, Luo H, Zhang H, Khanom T, Zhang D, Abrahams I and Yan H
Journal of Materials Chemistry C, Royal Society of Chemistry vol. 9 (12), 4289-4299.
15-03-2021
Investigation of transitions between the M-phases in AgNbO 3 based ceramicsYan Z, Zhang D, Zhou X, Zhang M, Zhang L, Zhang H, Xue G, Abrahams I and Yan H
Journal of Materials Chemistry A, Royal Society of Chemistry
19-01-2021
Effect of processing on the structures and properties of bismuth sodium titanate compoundsMahajan A, Zhang H, Wu J, Venkata Ramana E, Yu C, Tarakina NV, Reece MJ and Yan H
Journal of Materials Research, Springer, 1-11.
13-01-2021
2020
Perovskite Bi0.5Na0.5TiO3-based materials for dielectric capacitors with ultrahigh thermal stabilityWu J, Zhang H, Meng N, Koval V, Mahajan A, Gao Z, Zhang D and Yan H
Materials and Design, Elsevier, 109344-109344.
19-11-2020
High Tunability and Low Loss in Layered Perovskite Dielectrics through Intrinsic Elimination of Oxygen VacanciesZhang H, Gidden H, Saunders TG, Liu N, Aurallo-Peters V, Xu X, Palma M, Reece MJ, Abrahams I, Yan H and Hao Y
Chemistry of Materials, American Chemical Society (Acs)
17-11-2020
Low-loss High Entropy Relaxor-like Ferroelectrics with A-site DisorderXiong W, Zhang H, Cao S, Gao F, Svec P, Dusza J, Reece MJ and Yan H
Journal of The European Ceramic Society, Elsevier
16-11-2020
Structure and dielectric properties of double A-site doped bismuth sodium titanate relaxor ferroelectrics for high power energy storage applicationsZhang H, Yang B, Fortes AD, Yan H and Abrahams I
Journal of Materials Chemistry A, Royal Society of Chemistry
09-11-2020
Enhanced Hardness in High-Entropy Carbides Through Atomic RandomnessWang Y, Csanádi T, Zhang H, Dusza J, Reece M and Zhang R-Z
Advanced Theory and Simulations, Wiley-Blackwell
13-08-2020
Antimony substituted lanthanum orthoniobate proton conductor – Structure and electronic propertiesMielewczyk‐Gryń A, Wachowski S, Witkowska A, Dzierzgowski K, Skubida W, Świerczek K, Regoutz A, Payne DJ, Hull S, Zhang H, Abrahams I and Gazda M
Journal of The American Ceramic Society, Wiley vol. 103 (11), 6575-6585.
19-07-2020
Interactive human–machine learning framework for modelling of ferroelectric–dielectric compositesLiu N, Ihalage A, Zhang H, Giddens H, Yan H and Hao Y
Journal of Materials Chemistry C, Royal Society of Chemistry
09-07-2020
Polar nano-clusters in nominally paraelectric ceramics demonstrating high microwave tunability for wireless communicationZhang H, Giddens H, Yue Y, Xu X, Araullo-Peters V, Koval V, Palma M, Abrahams I, Yan H and Hao Y
Journal of The European Ceramic Society, Elsevier
19-04-2020
Terahertz Probing Irreversible Phase Transitions Related to Polar Clusters in Bi0.5Na0.5TiO3‐Based FerroelectricWu J, Sun W, Meng N, Zhang H, Koval V, Zhang Y, Donnan R, Yang B, Zhang D and Yan H
Advanced Electronic Materials, Wiley, 1901373-1901373.
16-02-2020
The crystallization, thermodynamic and thermoelectric properties of vast off-stoichiometric Sn–Se crystalsLiu M, Zhang J, Xu J, Hu B, Sun K, Yang Y, Wang J, Du B and Zhang H
Journal of Materials Chemistry C, Royal Society of Chemistry (Rsc) vol. 8 (19), 6422-6434.
01-01-2020
2019
Isolation of a ferroelectric intermediate phase in antiferroelectric dense sodium niobate ceramicsZhang H, Yang B, Yan H and Abrahams I
Acta Materialia, Elsevier Bv vol. 179, 255-261.
22-08-2019
Crystal structure and improved thermoelectric performance of iron stabilized cubic Cu 3 SbS 3 compoundDu B, Zhang R, Liu M, Chen K, Zhang H and Reece MJ
Journal of Materials Chemistry C, Royal Society of Chemistry (Rsc) vol. 7 (2), 394-404.
01-01-2019
2018
Crystal structure and electrical properties of textured BaCao J, Koval V, Zhang H, Lin Y, Wu J, Meng N, Li Y, Li Z, Zhang H and Yan H
Journal of The European Ceramic Society
10-12-2018
Perovskite SrWu J, Mahajan A, Riekehr L, Zhang H, Yang B, Meng N, Zhang Z and Yan H
Nano Energy vol. 50, 723-732.
06-06-2018
BiLi Z, Tao K, Ma J, Gao Z, Koval V, Jiang C, Viola G, Zhang H, Mahajan A, Cao J, Cain M, Abrahams I, Nan C, Jia C and Yan H
Journal of Materials Chemistry C vol. 6 (11), 2733-2740.
19-02-2018
2017
Magnéli phase titanium suboxides by Flash Spark Plasma SinteringYu M, Saunders T, Grasso S, Mahajan A, Zhang H and Reece MJ
Scripta Materialia vol. 146, 241-245.
08-12-2017
Phase transitions in bismuth-modified silver niobate ceramics for high power energy storageTian Y, Jin L, Zhang H, Xu Z, Wei X, Viola G, Abrahams I and Yan H
Journal of Materials Chemistry A vol. 5 (33), 17525-17531.
31-07-2017
Topochemical transformation of two-dimensional single crystalline NaJiang C, Zhang D, Zhou K, Yan H, Zhang H and Abrahams I
Journal of Materials Chemistry A vol. 5 (30), 15780-15788.
13-07-2017
Effect of Phase Transitions on Thermal Depoling in Lead-Free
0.94(Bi0.5Na0.5TiO3)−0.06(BaTiO3) Based PiezoelectricsMAHAJAN A, Zhang H, Wu J, Ramana EV, Reece M and Yan H
The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, American Chemical Society
20-02-2017
2016
High energy density in silver niobate ceramicsTian Y, Jin L, Zhang H, Xu Z, Wei X, Politova ED, Stefanovich SY, Tarakina NV, Abrahams I and Yan H
Journal of Materials Chemistry A vol. 4 (44), 17279-17287.
17-08-2016
Lead free Bi3TaTiO9 ferroelectric ceramics with high Curie pointSun Y, Li Z, Zhang H, Yu C, Viola G, Fu S, Koval V and Yan H
Materials Letters, Elsevier vol. 175, 79-81.
04-04-2016
2015
Incorporation of Ag nanowires in CuWO4 for improved visible light-induced photoanode performanceZhang H, Yilmaz P, Ansari JO, Khan FF, Binions R, Krause S and Dunn S
Journal of Materials Chemistry A vol. 3 (18), 9638-9644.
26-03-2015