Akhlesh Lakhtakia

Affiliate Researcher
Titles and Affiliations
Evan Pugh University Professor and Charles G. Binder Professor, Engineering Science and Mechanics

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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New principle for scattering inside a Huygens bianisotropic medium

Lakhtakia, A., 2022, (Accepted/In press) In: Journal of Optics (India).

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Thermal-hysteresis-affected surface-plasmon-polariton-wave propagation

Waseer, W. I. & Lakhtakia, A., Oct 1 2022, In: Materials Letters. 324, 132648.

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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.

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