
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
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