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ArticleScience advances2023

Multicolor x-rays from free electron-driven van der Waals heterostructures.

Sunchao Huang, Ruihuan Duan, Nikhil Pramanik, Michael Go, Chris Boothroyd, Zheng Liu, Liang Jie Wong

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Article in Science advances, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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  2. Thermionics in Topological Materials.Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.) · 2025
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  4. Free-electron resonance transition radiation via Brewster randomness.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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Sunchao HuangSchool of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, 50 Nanyang Avenue, Singapore 639798, Singapore.ORCID 0000-0003-3456-1116
Ruihuan DuanCINTRA CNRS/NTU/THALES, UMI 3288, Research Techno Plaza, Nanyang Technological University, 50 Nanyang Avenue, Singapore 637371, Singapore.ORCID 0000-0003-4999-9735
Nikhil PramanikSchool of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, 50 Nanyang Avenue, Singapore 639798, Singapore.
Michael GoSchool of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, 50 Nanyang Avenue, Singapore 639798, Singapore.
Chris BoothroydSchool of Materials Science and Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, 50 Nanyang Avenue, Singapore 639798, Singapore.
Zheng LiuSchool of Materials Science and Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, 50 Nanyang Avenue, Singapore 639798, Singapore.ORCID 0000-0002-8825-7198
Liang Jie WongSchool of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, 50 Nanyang Avenue, Singapore 639798, Singapore.ORCID 0000-0002-9601-9456

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Abstract

The emergence of van der Waals (vdW) heterostructures has led to precise and versatile methods of fabricating devices with atomic-scale accuracies. Hence, vdW heterostructures have shown much promise for technologies including photodetectors, photocatalysis, photovoltaic devices, ultrafast photonic devices, and field-effect transistors. These applications, however, remain confined to optical and suboptical regimes. Here, we theoretically show and experimentally demonstrate the use of vdW heterostructures as platforms for multicolor x-ray generation. By driving the vdW heterostructures with free electrons in a table-top setup, we generate x-ray photons whose output spectral profile can be user-customized via the heterostructure design and even controlled in real time. We show that the multicolor photon energies and their corresponding intensities can be tailored by varying the electron energy, the electron beam position, as well as the geometry and composition of the vdW heterostructure. Our results reveal the promise of vdW heterostructures in realizing highly versatile x-ray sources for emerging applications in advanced x-ray imaging and spectroscopy.

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