8. Sunchao Huang, Suguo Chen, Yue Wang, Xihang Shi, Xiaoqiuyan Zhang, Min Hu, Ping Zhang, Shaomeng Wang, Chao Zhang and Yubin Gong. Enhancing heat transfer in X-ray tube by van der heterostructures-based thermionic emission. 真空电子技术. (Accepted)

7. Qingwei Zhai, Nikhil Pramanik, Ruihuan Duan, Sunchao Huang*, Zheng Liu & Liang Jie Wong. Enhanced tunable X-rays from bulk crystals driven by table-top free electron energies. Nature Communications (2025).

6. Sunchao Huang, Xihang, Xiaoqiuyan Zhang, Suguo Chen, Yue Wang, Shengpeng Yang, Ping Zhang, Min Hu, and Yubin Gong. Energy threshold in Smith-Purcell radiation. Photonics Research (2025).

5. Suguo Chen, Pengtao Wang, Guangcheng Sun, Sunchao Huang, Shichao Zhao, Wei Shi, and Yue Wang. Dynamical modeling of terahertz Smith–Purcell radiation via the current-transient approach in hexagonal metasurfaces. AIP Advances 15, (2025).

4. Zijian Qiu, Shengpeng Yang, Sunchao Huang, Shaomeng Wang, Ping Zhang, and Yubin Gong. Terahertz amplification induced by electron-phonon interactions in gated graphene plasmonic system. Research (2025).

3. Sunchao Huang, Zihao Zhang, Youfeng Yang, Yuan Zheng, Abdullah Al-Mamun, Shaomeng Wang, Zhi Li, Yubin Gong, Chao Zhang. Thermionics in Topological Materials. Advanced Materials 202505619 (2025).

2. Xiaoqiuyan Zhang, Sunchao Huang†, Tianyu Zhang, Yuxuan Zhuang, Xingxing Xu, Fu Tang, Zhaoyun Duan, Yanyu Wei, Yubin Gong, and Min Hu. Reverse Smith-Purcell radiation in photonic crystals. Photonics Research 13, 1060-1066 (2025).

1. Suguo Chen, Pengtao Wang, Xiaoqiuyan Zhang, Sunchao Huang†, Yue Wang, Min Hu, Chao Zhang, and Yubin Gong. Thermionic Enhanced Heat Transfer in X-Ray Tubes. Applied Physics Letters 124, 012201 (2024).

Before joining UESTC

22. Sunchao Huang, Ruihuan Duan, Nikhil Pramanik, Jason Scott Herrin, Chris Boothroyd, Zheng Liu, and Liang Jie Wong. Quantum recoil in free-electron interactions with atomic lattices. Nature Photonics 17, 224-230 (2023) Hearo image on Nature Photonics website.

21. Nikhil Pramanik, Sunchao Huang*, Ruihuan Duan, Qingwei Zhai, Michael Go, Chris Boothroyd, Zheng Liu, and Liang Jie Wong. Fundamental scaling laws of water-window X-rays from free-electron-driven van der Waals structures. Nature Photonics 18, 1203–1211 (2024)

20. Sunchao Huang, Ruihuan Duan, Nikhil Pramanik, Michael Go, Chris Boothroyd, Zheng Liu, and Liang Jie Wong. Multicolor x-rays from free electron–driven van der Waals heterostructures. Science Advances 9, eadj8584 (2023).

19. Sunchao Huang, Ruihuan Duan, Nikhil Pramanik, Chris Boothroyd, Zheng Liu, and Liang Jie Wong. Enhanced Versatility of Table‐Top X‐Rays from van der Waals Structures. Advanced Science 9, 2105401 (2022).

18. Xihang Shi, Lee Wei Wesley Wong, Sunchao Huang, Liang Jie Wong and Ido Kaminer. Transverse recoil imprinted on free-electron radiation. Nature Communications, 15, 7803 (2024).

17. Suguo Chen, Pengtao Wang, Yue Wang, Sunchao Huang^† and Lei Hou. Investigation of the Abraham–Minkowski dilemma in Smith–Purcell radiation from photonic crystals. APL Photonics, 9, 096116 (2024) Featured paper.

16. Lei Hou, Junnan Wang, Qihui He, Suguo Chen, Lei Yang, Sunchao Huang, and Wei Shi. Utilizing quantum coherence in Cs Rydberg atoms for high-sensitivity room-temperature terahertz detection: a theoretical exploration. Photonics Research 12, 7 (2024): 1583-1592.

15. Yaohe Li, Yue Wang, Guangcheng Sun, Sunchao Huang, Di Wu, and Suguo Chen. Resonance and topological characteristics of BICs based on geared structure THz metasurface for sensing applications. IEEE Sensors Journal (2024).

14. Yue Wang, Bochen Song, Xiang Zhang, Zijian Cui, Sunchao Huang, and Suguo Chen. "Resonance and Sensing Properties of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotube Terahertz Metasurface. IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science (2024).

13. Suguo Chen, Sunchao Huang, Wenye Duan, Wei Shi, and Chao Zhang. Thermionic emission in nodal-ring semimetals. Journal of Applied Physics 128, 065108 (2020).

12. Sunchao Huang, My Hanh Tran, Jack Zuber, Qian Wang, Yiming Zhu, and Chao Zhang. Strong tunable photomixing in semi-Dirac materials in the terahertz regime. Journal of the Optical Society of America B 36, 200-203 (2019).

11. Sunchao Huang, Roger A. Lewis, and Chao Zhang. Thermionic enhanced heat transfer in electronic devices based on 3D Dirac materials. Journal of Applied Physics 126, 16 (2019).

10. Jie Tian, Jack Zuber, Sunchao Huang, and Chao Zhang. Superconducting pair-breaking under intense sub-gap terahertz radiation. Applied Physics Letters 114, 212601 (2019).

9. Jack Zuber, Sunchao Huang, Jie Tian, and Chao Zhang. Dynamical polarization in a graphene-topological-insulator heterostructure. Materials Research Express 6, 045603 (2019).

8. Sunchao Huang, Matthew Sanderson, Jie Tian, Qinjun Chen, Fengqiu Wang, and Chao Zhang. Hot carrier relaxation in three dimensional gapped Dirac semi-metals. Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics 51, 015101 (2018).

7. Matthew Sanderson, Sunchao Huang, Yan Zhang, and Chao Zhang. Frequency and orientation dependent conductivity of a semi-Dirac system. Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics 51, 205302 (2018).

6. Sunchao Huang, Matthew Sanderson, Yan Zhang, and Chao Zhang. High efficiency and non-Richardson thermionics in three dimensional Dirac materials. Applied Physics Letters 111, 183902 (2017).

5. Sunchao Huang, Yongsheng Zhang, Xiaoli Zhang, Zongguo Wang, Xiaoyu Yang, and Zhi Zeng. Mechanical properties of zirconium-based random alloys: Alloying elements and composition dependencies. Computational Materials Science 127, 60-66 (2017).

4. Matthew Sanderson, Sunchao Huang, Qiaoliang Bao, and Chao Zhang. Optical conductivity of a commensurate graphene-topological insulator heterostructure. Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics 50, 385301 (2017).

3. Xiaoyu Yang, Juan Wang, Jie Ren, Jianlong Song, Zongguo Wang, Zhi Zeng, Xiaoli Zhang, Sunchao Huang, Ping Zhang, and Haiqing Lin. An integrated high-throughput computational material platform. Chinese Journal of Computational Physics 34, 0697 (2017).

2. Tingting Li., Sunchao Huang, XiaoLi Zhang, and Zhi Zeng. Construction of high-throughput computation platform for random alloys (HCPRA) and its applications. Chinese Science Bulletin 62, 3894-3901 (2017).

1. Sunchao Huang, Xiaoli Zhang, Yongsheng Zhang, Songjun Hou, Xiaoyu Yang, and Zhi Zeng. Investigations of the mechanical properties of the Zr₈Ti₈ random alloy. International Journal of Modern Physics C 27, 1650076 (2016).

        X 射线是芯片检测、医学成像等多领域的核心技术支撑，但现有 X 射线源均存短板：传统 X 射线管虽经济实用，却受限于频谱不可调、高功率易过热；同步辐射虽能实现频率调控，却因成本高昂、体积庞大难以普及。史密斯 - 帕塞尔辐射本是小型化可调 X 射线源的理想技术路径，可通过调控光栅周期与电子能量实现全波段覆盖，却因光栅加工精度不足，实际输出仅能达到紫外线波段，X 射线频段的突破成为行业亟待解决的瓶颈。

       针对这一痛点，课题组采取 “双轨并行” 的创新攻关策略：一方面，创新提出热电子制冷方案，破解高功率 X 射线管的过热难题；另一方面，通过真空电子学与二维材料学的交叉融合，利用自由电子与原子尺度光栅的相互作用，实现了可调 X 射线源的构建及纳米级灵活调控。目前已取得一系列标志性研究成果。

       热电子发射与应用领域：提出以三维狄拉克材料替代石墨烯作为高效热阴极的新方案，拓展了理查森公式的适用范围，使其可精准描述三维狄拉克材料的热电子发射电流；创新提出热电子制冷技术，有效解决了高功率 X 射线管的过热难题，相关成果发表于Advanced Materials 2025, 202505619；Applied Physics Letters 2024, 124, 012201；Journal of Applied Physics 2020, 128, 065108 等期刊。

       自由电子辐射领域：（1）验证了诺贝尔奖得主维塔利・金茨堡 1940 年提出的量子回弹理论，为量子调控自由电子辐射提供了关键技术支撑Nature Photonics 2023, 17, 224；（2）预言 “横向量子效应可分裂自由电子辐射峰”，相关成果发表于Nature Communications 2024, 15, 7803；（3）提出 “有效光栅” 概念，实现了对自由电子辐射 X 射线源的实时调控Advanced Science 2022, 9, 2105401；（4）提出以范德华异质结作为多周期原子尺度光栅，实现多色可调 X 射线源的频谱灵活调控Science Advances 2023, 9, eadj8584；（5）利用自由电子与石墨纳米薄膜的史密斯 - 帕塞尔相互作用，成功获取水窗波段的可调 X 光源；同时结合麦克斯韦方程组与蒙特卡洛模拟，建立了辐射强度的理论预测体系，首次实现理论预测与实验测量结果的完美匹配Nature Photonics 2024, 18, 1203–1211；（6）提出通过史密斯 - 帕塞尔自由电子辐射解决 Abraham–Minkowski 谬论APL Photonics 2024, 9, 096116；（7）打破 “史密斯 - 帕塞尔效应仅存在于薄膜材料” 的长期认知误区Nature Communications 2025, 16:11218；（8）在光子晶体中实现逆多普勒效应Photonics Research 2025, 13, 1060-1066；（9）理论预言史密斯 - 帕塞尔效应在经典与量子框架下均存在辐射能量阈值Photonics Research 2026，待刊。