Akhlesh Lakhtakia's research focuses on electromagnetic fields in complex materials, such as sculptured thin films, chiral materials, bianisotropy and industrially scalable bioreplication, an emerging form of engineered biomimicry applied to harvesting of solar energy and pest eradication. His technique for visualization of latent fingerprints was covered in the NOVA documentary series "Forensics on Trial".
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Recent Publications
Bifacial flexible CIGS thin-film solar cells with nonlinearly graded-bandgap photon-absorbing layers
Ahmad, F., Monk, P. B. & Lakhtakia, A., Apr 1 2024, In: JPhys Energy. 6, 2, 025012.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Non-metallic magnetostatically tunable metasurface absorber for terahertz waves
Clemente-Arenas, M., Rubio-Noriega, R. E., Urbina, J. V. & Lakhtakia, A., Mar 1 2024, In: Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics. 41, 3, p. 691-697 7 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Transmission-mode geometric-phase signatures of circular Bragg phenomenon
Lakhtakia, A., Feb 1 2024, In: Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics. 41, 2, p. 500-507 8 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
On maximum left/right reflectance asymmetry exhibited by a gyrotropic dielectric slab
Mackay, T. G. & Lakhtakia, A., Jan 2024, In: Journal of Physics Communications. 8, 1, 011001.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Thermally mediated transmission-mode deflection of terahertz waves by lamellar metagratings containing a phase-change material
Serebryannikov, A. E., Lakhtakia, A. & Ozbay, E., Mar 1 2024, In: Optical Materials Express. 14, 3, p. 745-758 14 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Effects of defect density, minority carrier lifetime, doping density, and absorber-layer thickness in CIGS and CZTSSe thin-film solar cells
Ahmad, F., Civiletti, B. J., Monk, P. B. & Lakhtakia, A., Apr 1 2023, In: Journal of Photonics for Energy. 13, 2, 025502.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Optoelectronic optimization of graded-bandgap thin-film AlGaAs solar cells. Part II: optimal antireflection front-surface texturing
Ahmad, F., Monk, P. B. & Lakhtakia, A., Oct 1 2023, In: Applied optics. 62, 28, p. 7487-7495 9 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Visualization of latent and depleted fingermarks on CDs and DVDs using columnar thin films
Faryad, M., Lakhtakia, A., Fiallo, R. A. & Banerjee, P. P., Dec 2023, In: Optik. 295, 171541.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
On temporally periodic physical vapor deposition on random rough surfaces
Fiallo, R. A., Li, C., Lakhtakia, A. & Horn, M. W., Jul 1 2023, In: Journal of Nanophotonics. 17, 3, 036005.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
New principle for scattering inside a Huygens bianisotropic medium
Lakhtakia, A., Sep 2023, In: Journal of Optics (India). 52, 3, p. 1296-1304 9 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Manifestations of thermal hysteresis in theoretical studies of Mie scattering, columnar thin films, and surface-plasmon-polariton wave propagation
Mackay, T. G., Son, T. V., Haché, A., Waseer, W. I. & Lakhtakia, A., 2023, In: International Conference on Metamaterials, Photonic Crystals and Plasmonics. p. 1249-1250 2 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Conference article › peer-review
Temperature-induced hysteresis in amplification and attenuation of surface-plasmon-polariton waves
Mackay, T. G., Son, T. V., Haché, A. & Lakhtakia, A., Jun 2023, In: Journal of Physics Communications. 7, 6, 061002.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Design of X-band bicontrollable metasurface absorber comprising graphene pixels on copper-backed YIG substrate
Sharma, G., Lakhtakia, A. & Jain, P. K., Sep 2023, In: Optik. 287, 171000.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
THEORY OF PERTURBATION OF ELECTROSTATIC FIELD BY A COATED ANISOTROPIC DIELECTRIC SPHERE
Tsitsas, N. L., Alkhoori, H. M. & Lakhtakia, A., Aug 1 2023, In: Quarterly Journal of Mechanics and Applied Mathematics. 76, 3, p. 297-314 18 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Identifying the influence of surface texture waveforms on colors of polished surfaces using an explainable AI approach
Zhong, Y., Tiwari, A., Yamaguchi, H., Lakhtakia, A. & Bukkapatnam, S. T. S., 2023, In: IISE Transactions. 55, 7, p. 731-745 15 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review