Wei Zhang

Current Research Interests

- Radio propagation impairments and channel modeling problems for local multi-point distribution service (LMDS)
- Narrow- and wide-band propagation characteristics for mobile radio communications
- Electromagnetic wave propagation and scattering for satellite and telecommunications and for radar remote sensing
- Electromagnetic scattering by particles in the resonance region and application of transition zone diffraction

Education

- Doctor of Technology (Ph. D.), Electrical Engineering (Major: Radio Engineering), Helsinki University of Technology (HUT), Espoo, Finland, 1994.

Selected Publications

- W. Zhang, J. Lähteenmäki, and P. Vainikainen, "A practical aspect of over-rooftop multiple-building forward diffraction from a low source," IEEE Trans. Electromagn. Compat., vol. EMC-41, pp. 115-119, May 1999.
- W. Zhang, "A wide-band propagation model based on UTD for cellular mobile radio communications," IEEE Trans. Antennas Propagat., vol. AP-45, pp. 1669-1678, Nov. 1997.
- W. Zhang, J. K. Tervonen, and E. T. Salonen, "Backward and forward scattering by the melting layer composed of spheroidal hydrometeors at 5-100 GHz," IEEE Trans. Antennas Propagat., vol. AP-44, pp. 1208-1219, Sept. 1996.
- W. Zhang, "A More Rigorous UTD-Based Expression for Multiple Diffractions by Buildings," IEE Proc. Microw. Antennas Propag., vol. 142, pp. 481-484, Dec. 1995.
- W. Zhang, "Scattering of radiowaves by a melting layer of precipitation in backward and forward directions," IEEE Trans. Antennas Propagat., vol. AP-42, pp. 347-356, Mar. 1994.

Last updated on February 10, 2000.