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Akhlesh Lakhtakia

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axl4@psu.edu
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IEE Research Themes
Integrated Energy Systems
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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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Thin Films
Surface Plasmons
Plane Wave
Dielectric Material
Wave
Plane Waves
Polaritons
Plasmons
Dyadics
Scattering
Propagation
Composite Materials
Permittivity
Phase Velocity
Homogenization
Homogenizing
Electromagnetism
Polarization
Wavelength
Wave Propagation

Recent Publications

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

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

Surface-plasmonic sensor using a columnar thin film in the grating-coupled configuration [Invited]

Mujeeb, K., Faryad, M., Lakhtakia, A. & Urbina, J. V., Aug 2021, In: Chinese Optics Letters. 19, 8, 083601.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

High-throughput DNA sequencing of environmentally insulted latent fingerprints after visualization with nanoscale columnar-thin-film technique

Tiedge, T. M., Nagachar, N., Wendt, F. R., Lakhtakia, A. & Roy, R., Sep 1 2021, In: Science and Justice - Journal of the Forensic Science Society. 61, 5, p. 505-515 11 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review