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
Efficiency enhancement of ultrathin CIGS solar cells by optimal bandgap grading. Part III: piecewise-homogeneous grading
Ahmad, F., Monk, P. B. & Lakhtakia, A., Apr 10 2024, In: Applied optics. 63, 11, p. 2831-2836 6 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Transport of intensity and phase: applications to digital holography [Invited]
Alanazi, N. A., Scott, A. M., Al-Ghezi, H., Faryad, M., Lakhtakia, A. & Banerjee, P. P., Apr 1 2024, In: Applied optics. 63, 10, p. 2436-2454 19 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
The Non-Metallic Electrical Connector: A New Connector Technology Based on Wireless Power Transfer
Benjestorf, J. S., Pascucci, V. C., Urbina, J. & Lakhtakia, A., 2024, In: IEEE Access. 12, p. 121994-122015 22 p.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
Electromagnetic surface waves guided by the interface of a metal and a tightly interlaced matched ambidextrous bilayer
De Simone, R., Chiadini, F., Fiumara, V. & Lakhtakia, A., Jul 1 2024, In: Journal of Optics (United Kingdom). 26, 7, 075003.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Bruggeman homogenization of a particulate composite material comprising truncated spheres and spheroids
Iga-Buitrón, H. M., Mackay, T. G. & Lakhtakia, A., Nov 7 2024, In: Journal of physics. Condensed matter : an Institute of Physics journal. 37, 4Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Homogenization of a random mixture of identically oriented superspheroidal particles
Iga-Buitrón, H. M., Mackay, T. G. & Lakhtakia, A., 2024, In: Journal of Electromagnetic Waves and Applications. 38, 18, p. 2076-2090 15 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Geometric phase in plane-wave transmission by a dielectric structurally chiral slab with a central phase defect
Lakhtakia, A., Apr 2024, In: Physical Review A. 109, 4, 043517.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Resilience of circular-polarization-state-sensitive reflection against morphological disorder in chiral structures
Lakhtakia, A., Jul 1 2024, In: Journal of Nanophotonics. 18, 3, 036005.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
The free-space dyadic Green function is orthogonal to its curl
Lakhtakia, A., 2024, In: Journal of Electromagnetic Waves and Applications. 38, 8, p. 928-931 4 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Letter › 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
Luminescent solar concentrator containing Parylene-C microfibrous thin film infiltrated with Lumogen F Red 305
Li, C., Wu, H., Poudel, B., Awadelkarim, O. O. & Lakhtakia, A., Nov 1 2024, In: Journal of Optics (United Kingdom). 26, 11, 115901.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Powder-Sintered Hierarchically Porous PMMA with Optimal Pore Parameters for Passive Daytime Radiative Cooling
Li, Y., Zhao, H., Meng, X., Zhao, Y., Liu, H., Lei, M. & Lakhtakia, A., 2024, (Accepted/In press) In: Advanced Materials Technologies.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