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
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
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
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
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
Enhanced efficiency of graded-bandgap thin-film solar cells due to concentrated sunlight
Ahmad, F., Lakhtakia, A. & Monk, P. B., Dec 1 2021, In: Applied optics. 60, 34, p. 10570-10578 9 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Analysis of the Rigorous Coupled Wave Approach for p-polarized light in gratings
Civiletti, B. J., Lakhtakia, A. & Monk, P. B., Apr 2021, In: Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics. 386, 113235.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Electromagnetic surface waves at exceptional points
Lakhtakia, A., MacKay, T. G. & Zhou, C., Jan 2021, In: European Journal of Physics. 42, 1, 015302.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Exceptional compound plasmon-polariton waves
Lakhtakia, A., Zhou, C. & Mackay, T. G., Feb 15 2021, In: OSA Continuum. 4, 2, p. 748-761 14 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Theory of Perturbation of Electrostatic Field by an Anisotropic Dielectric Sphere
Lakhtakia, A., Tsitsas, N. L. & Alkhoori, H. M., Nov 1 2021, In: Quarterly Journal of Mechanics and Applied Mathematics. 74, 4, p. 467-490 24 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
High-phase-speed Dyakonov surface waves
MacKay, T. G., Zhou, C. & Lakhtakia, A., Jan 1 2021, In: Journal of Nanophotonics. 15, 1, 010501.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Theory of artificial-neural-network-based simultaneous optical sensing of two analytes using sculptured thin films
McAtee, P. D. & Lakhtakia, A., Jul 1 2021, In: Journal of Nanophotonics. 15, 3, 036012.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review