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
Pixelated metasurfaces for linear-polarization conversion and absorption
Agrahari, R., Lakhtakia, A., Kumar Jain, P. & Bhattacharyya, S., 2022, In: Journal of Electromagnetic Waves and Applications. 36, 7, p. 1008-1019 12 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Efficiency enhancement of ultrathin CIGS solar cells by optimal bandgap grading. Part II: finite-difference algorithm and double-layer antireflection coatings
Ahmad, F., Civiletti, B. J., Monk, P. B. & Lakhtakia, A., Nov 20 2022, In: Applied optics. 61, 33, p. 10049-10061 13 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Hybridization of the rigorous coupled-wave approach with transformation optics for electromagnetic scattering by a surface-relief grating
Civiletti, B. J., Lakhtakia, A. & Monk, P. B., Oct 1 2022, In: Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics. 412, 114338.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Polarization-universal bandgaps realized with chiral sculptured thin films
Fiallo, R. A., Horn, M. W. & Lakhtakia, A., Oct 1 2022, In: Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics. 39, 10, p. 2697-2704 8 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Erratum: Theory of perturbation of electrostatic field by an anisotropic dielectric sphere (The Quarterly Journal of Mechanics and Applied Mathematics (2021) 74 (467-490) DOI: 10.1093/qjmam/hbab013)
Lakhtakia, A., Tsitsas, N. L. & Alkhoori, H. M., Feb 1 2022, In: Quarterly Journal of Mechanics and Applied Mathematics. 75, 1, p. 125 1 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Comment/debate › peer-review
New principle for scattering inside a Huygens bianisotropic medium
Lakhtakia, A., 2022, (Accepted/In press) In: Journal of Optics (India).Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Thermal hysteresis in scattering by VO2 spheres
Lakhtakia, A., Mackay, T. G. & Waseer, W. I., Oct 1 2022, In: Journal of the Optical Society of America A: Optics and Image Science, and Vision. 39, 10, p. 1921-1928 8 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Toward morphologically induced anisotropy in thermally hysteretic dielectric properties of vanadium dioxide
MacKay, T. G. & Lakhtakia, A., Oct 1 2022, In: AIP Advances. 12, 10, 105026.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Experimental detection of Immunoglobulin G by prism-coupled angular interrogation and a support vector machine
McAtee, P. D. & Lakhtakia, A., Jan 1 2022, In: Journal of Nanophotonics. 16, 1, 016003.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Grating-coupled excitation of high-phase-speed Dyakonov surface waves
Mujeeb, K., Faryad, M., Lakhtakia, A. & Urbina, J. V., Feb 1 2022, In: Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics. 39, 2, p. 474-480 7 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Thermally switchable, bifunctional, scalable, mid-infrared metasurfaces with VO2 grids capable of versatile polarization manipulation and asymmetric transmission
Serebryannikov, A. E., Lakhtakia, A. & Ozbay, E., Dec 1 2022, In: Optical Materials Express. 12, 12, p. 4594-4605 12 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Transmissive terahertz metasurfaces with vanadium dioxide split-rings and grids for switchable asymmetric polarization manipulation
Serebryannikov, A. E., Lakhtakia, A., Vandenbosch, G. A. E. & Ozbay, E., Dec 2022, In: Scientific reports. 12, 1, 3518.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Pixelated bicontrollable metasurface absorber tunable in complete X band
Sharma, G., Kumar, P., Lakhtakia, A. & Jain, P. K., 2022, (Accepted/In press) In: Journal of Electromagnetic Waves and Applications.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Thermal-hysteresis-affected surface-plasmon-polariton-wave propagation
Waseer, W. I. & Lakhtakia, A., Oct 1 2022, In: Materials Letters. 324, 132648.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., 2022, (Accepted/In press) In: IISE Transactions.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review