
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
Towards highly efficient thin-film solar cells with a graded-bandgap CZ TSSe layer. Part II: Piecewise-homogeneous bandgap grading
Ahmad, F., Monk, P. B. & Lakhtakia, A., Jan 31 2025, In: JPhys Energy. 7, 1, 015002.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Theory of perturbation of the magnetostatic field by an anisotropic magnetic torus
Alkhoori, H. M., Lakhtakia, A. & Tsitsas, N. L., Mar 1 2025, In: Journal of Physics Communications. 9, 3, 035001.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., Jan 27 2025, In: Journal of Physics Condensed Matter. 37, 4, 045703.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Compositional-Asymmetry-Induced Transition of Directional Liquid Transport on Tilted and Janusian Nanohair Arrays
Li, Y., Liu, H., Huo, L., Lei, M. & Lakhtakia, A., Apr 2 2025, In: ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces. 17, 13, p. 20418-20430 13 p.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., Mar 4 2025, In: Advanced Materials Technologies. 10, 5, 2400713.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Recommendations of India’s National Education Policy 2020 for higher education
Venkata, R. R., Bhattacharya, P., Lakhtakia, A. & Krishnasamy, S. T., 2025, (Accepted/In press) In: Proceedings of the Indian National Science Academy.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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. V. & 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
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
Comment on ‘No circular birefringence exists in a chiral medium: an analysis of single-mode refraction’
Koufidis, S. F., Lakhtakia, A. & McCall, M. W., Dec 1 2024, In: New Journal of Physics. 26, 12, 128001.Research output: Contribution to journal › Comment/debate › 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