Cathodoluminescence for the 21st century: Learning more from light

T Coenen, NM Haegel - Applied Physics Reviews, 2017 - pubs.aip.org
On August 22, 1879, in a lecture to the British Association for the Advancement of Science, 1
Sir William Crookes announced that “radiant matter”(his term for the electrons emerging from …

Controlling Cherenkov angles with resonance transition radiation

X Lin, S Easo, Y Shen, H Chen, B Zhang… - Nature Physics, 2018 - nature.com
Cherenkov radiation provides a valuable way to identify high-energy particles in a wide
momentum range, through the relation between the particle velocity and the Cherenkov …

High-efficiency threshold-less Cherenkov radiation generation by a graphene hyperbolic grating in the terahertz band

X Zhang, M Hu, Z Zhang, Y Wang, T Zhang, X Xu… - Carbon, 2021 - Elsevier
Cherenkov radiation (CR), generated when charged particles move faster than the light
velocity in a medium, is an important radiation phenomenon of electron-matter interactions …

Cherenkov radiation from photonic bound states in the continuum: towards compact free-electron lasers

Y Song, N Jiang, L Liu, X Hu, J Zi - Physical Review Applied, 2018 - APS
In conventional materials, Cherenkov radiation (CR) due to a moving charged particle is
associated with a broad frequency range and velocity threshold. Here, we show that using a …

Efficient terahertz and infrared Smith–Purcell radiation from metal-slot metasurfaces

Y Song, J Du, N Jiang, L Liu, X Hu - Optics Letters, 2018 - opg.optica.org
We demonstrate that when a charged particle moves on top of a metal-slot metasurface
consisting of metallic slot resonators, strong Smith–Purcell electromagnetic (EM) radiation …

Terahertz and infrared Smith-Purcell radiation from Babinet metasurfaces: Loss and efficiency

L Liu, H Chang, C Zhang, Y Song, X Hu - Physical Review B, 2017 - APS
When a charged particle moves close and parallel to the surface of a Babinet metasurface
composed of metallic C-aperture resonators, strong electromagnetic radiation arises at …

Single-electron nano-chip free-electron laser

YC Huang, LH Peng, H Shirvani, WC Chen… - APL Photonics, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
ABSTRACT A conventional free-electron laser is useful but large, driven by a beam with
many relativistic electrons. Although, recently, keV electron beams have been used to excite …

Mechanisms of THz Radiation in Laser-Plasma Interactions

AA Choobini, SS Ghaffari-Oskooei… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
The exploration of Terahertz (THz) waves has captivated researchers across diverse
scientific disciplines such as physics, spectroscopy, chemistry, biology, and engineering …

Cherenkov radiation in integrated nanophotonic structures

R Salas-Montiel - Journal of Applied Physics, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
Vavilov–Cherenkov radiation (CR), an electromagnetic radiation emission that occurs when
a charged particle in a medium moves faster than the speed of light in the same medium …

Circular polarization of Cherenkov radiation assisted by a metasurface on waveguides

W Li, J Liu, Y Gao, K Zhou, S Liu - Optics Letters, 2020 - opg.optica.org
We propose an orientation-dependent polarization manipulation by Cherenkov radiation
(CR) in a silicon-on-insulator (SOI) waveguide with a metasurface. By putting an electron …