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Electronics and Electrical Engineering

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40
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6280
World Ranking
4518
National Ranking
1598

Overview

Tong Zhang is affiliated with Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in the United States and has contributed extensively to research across multiple disciplines, particularly in engineering, physics and astronomy, and materials science. Their research spans a wide range of subfields including electrical and electronic engineering, materials chemistry, atomic and molecular physics and optics, astronomy and astrophysics, and biomedical engineering.

Their primary research topics include ionosphere and magnetosphere dynamics, geophysics and gravity measurements, astrophysics and cosmic phenomena, photonic and optical devices, supercapacitor materials and fabrication, nanowire synthesis and applications, and gold and silver nanoparticles synthesis and applications.

Tong Zhang has published numerous articles, with frequent contributions appearing in venues such as OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information), SSRN Electronic Journal, Optics Express, Applied Surface Science, and Materials Chemistry and Physics.

Some of the recent publications authored or coauthored by Tong Zhang include:

  • One-step microwave-hydrothermal preparation of NiS/rGO hybrid for high-performance symmetric solid-state supercapacitor, 2020, Applied Surface Science
  • Enhanced uniformity, corrosion resistance and biological performance of Cu-incorporated TiO2 coating produced by ultrasound-auxiliary micro-arc oxidation, 2021, Applied Surface Science
  • Strain-Hardening Ultra-High-Performance Concrete (SH-UHPC) with hybrid steel and polyethylene fibers: Enhanced tensile ductility at subzero temperatures, 2025, Theoretical and Applied Fracture Mechanics
  • Long-term exposure to genistein inhibits the proliferation of gallbladder cancer by downregulating the MCM complex, 2022, Science Bulletin
  • Advances in the optical and electronic properties and applications of bismuth-based semiconductor materials, 2023, Journal of Materials Chemistry C

Their research collaborations include frequent coauthors such as Jon Jacobs, Keqi Tang, Ljiljana Paša-Tolić, Desmond Smith, and Sandra Rossie, reflecting a broad network across diverse research areas and projects.

Best Publications

  • On the Use of Soft-Decision Error-Correction Codes in nand Flash Memory

    Guiqiang Dong;Ningde Xie;Tong Zhang

  • Block-LDPC: a practical LDPC coding system design approach

    Hao Zhong;Tong Zhang

  • LDPC-in-SSD: making advanced error correction codes work effectively in solid state drives

    Kai Zhao;Wenzhe Zhao;Hongbin Sun;Tong Zhang

  • Relaxed $K$ -Best MIMO Signal Detector Design and VLSI Implementation

    Sizhong Chen;Tong Zhang;Yan Xin

  • Design of VLSI implementation-oriented LDPC codes

    Hao Zhong;Tong Zhang

  • A 54 Mbps (3,6)-regular FPGA LDPC decoder

    Tong Zhang;K.K. Parhi

  • Using Data Postcompensation and Predistortion to Tolerate Cell-to-Cell Interference in MLC nand Flash Memory

    Guiqiang Dong;Shu Li;Tong Zhang

  • Design of Last-Level On-Chip Cache Using Spin-Torque Transfer RAM (STT RAM)

    Wei Xu;Hongbin Sun;Xiaobin Wang;Yiran Chen

  • On finite precision implementation of low density parity check codes decoder

    T. Zhang;Z. Wang;K.K. Parhi

  • Systematic design of original and modified Mastrovito multipliers for general irreducible polynomials

    Tong Zhang;K.K. Parhi

  • VLSI implementation-oriented (3, k)-regular low-density parity-check codes

    Tong Zhang;K.K. Parhi

  • Joint code-encoder-decoder design for LDPC coding system VLSI implementation

    Hao Zhong;Tong Zhang

  • High-rate quasi-cyclic LDPC codes for magnetic recording channel with low error floor

    Hao Zhong;Tong Zhang;E.F. Haratsch

  • Enhanced Precision Through Multiple Reads for LDPC Decoding in Flash Memories

    Jiadong Wang;Kasra Vakilinia;Tsung-Yi Chen;Thomas Courtade

  • Joint (3,k)-regular LDPC code and decoder/encoder design

    Tong Zhang;K.K. Parhi

  • LDPC code and encoder/decoder regarding same

    Tong Zhang;Keshab K. Parhi

  • Computation Error Analysis in Digital Signal Processing Systems With Overscaled Supply Voltage

    Yang Liu;Tong Zhang;K.K. Parhi

  • Design of Spin-Torque Transfer Magnetoresistive RAM and CAM/TCAM with High Sensing and Search Speed

    Wei Xu;Tong Zhang;Yiran Chen

  • Quasi-nonvolatile SSD: Trading flash memory nonvolatility to improve storage system performance for enterprise applications

    Yangyang Pan;Guiqiang Dong;Qi Wu;Tong Zhang

  • A 130 nm 1.2 V/3.3 V 16 Kb Spin-Transfer Torque Random Access Memory With Nondestructive Self-Reference Sensing Scheme

    Yiran Chen;Hai Li;Xiaobin Wang;Wenzhong Zhu

Frequent Co-Authors

Keshab K. Parhi
Keshab K. Parhi University of Minnesota
Hai Li
Hai Li Duke University
Jiang Hu
Jiang Hu Texas A&M University
Joseph R. Cavallaro
Joseph R. Cavallaro Rice University
John W. Woods
John W. Woods Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Aleksandar Kavcic
Aleksandar Kavcic University of Hawaii at Manoa
Naveen Verma
Naveen Verma Princeton University
Gary J. Saulnier
Gary J. Saulnier University at Albany, State University of New York
Zhongfeng Wang
Zhongfeng Wang Nanjing University
Zheng Xu
Zheng Xu Beijing Jiaotong University

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