Enhancing X-ray generation from twisted multilayer van der Waals materials by shaping electron wavepackets

• Main Authors: Wong, Wesley Lee Wei, Wong, Liang Jie
• Other Authors: School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2024
• Subjects: Engineering; Electron wavepackets; X-ray generation
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/180903
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

We study twisted bilayer van der Waals (vdW) materials as a platform to generate versatile bremsstrahlung X-rays, and show that the twist angle in bilayer vdW materials provides an unprecedented degree of controllability over various properties of bremsstrahlung radiation from these materials. Speci...