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  • 2016 - IEEE Fellow For contributions to isotropic chiral, bianisotropic materials, and metamaterials
  • 2012 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For conceptualization of sculptured thin films wideranging theoretical and experimental research in optics on these materials design, fabrication, and characterization of optical devices for circular polarization and significant extensions to biomedical, biomimetic, and forensic arenas
  • 2009 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 1996 - SPIE Fellow

Overview

Akhlesh Lakhtakia is affiliated with Pennsylvania State University in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields with a focus on Engineering, Materials Science, and Physics and Astronomy, with publication counts of 184, 80, and 64 respectively. Key subfields of study include Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Atomic and Molecular Physics and Optics, Surfaces, Coatings and Films, Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, and Biomedical Engineering.

The scientist's research topics cover a wide array of subjects related to optics and electromagnetic materials. These topics include:

  • Optical Coatings and Gratings
  • Photonic Crystals and Applications
  • Metamaterials and Metasurfaces Applications
  • Photonic and Optical Devices
  • Plasmonic and Surface Plasmon Research
  • Electromagnetic Scattering and Analysis
  • Advanced Antenna and Metasurface Technologies

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Akhlesh Lakhtakia include Tom G. Mackay, Peter Monk, Faiz Ahmad, Julio Urbina, and Muhammad Faryad.

The scientist has actively published in several academic venues, primarily:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Applied Optics
  • Journal of Nanophotonics
  • Journal of Physics Communications
  • Journal of Electromagnetic Waves and Applications

Recent research work features papers such as:

  • "Magnetically tunable metasurface comprising InAs and InSb pixels for absorbing terahertz radiation," 2020, Applied Optics
  • "Coupled optoelectronic simulation and optimization of thin-film photovoltaic solar cells," 2020, Journal of Computational Physics
  • "Transmissive terahertz metasurfaces with vanadium dioxide split-rings and grids for switchable asymmetric polarization manipulation," 2022, Scientific Reports
  • "Pixelated metasurfaces for linear-polarization conversion and absorption," 2021, Journal of Electromagnetic Waves and Applications
  • "Tricontrollable pixelated metasurface for stopband for terahertz radiation," 2020, Journal of Electromagnetic Waves and Applications

In addition to journal articles, Akhlesh Lakhtakia has published books with Morgan & Claypool Publishers, including:

  • The Transfer-Matrix Method in Electromagnetics and Optics, 2020
  • Theory of Graded-Bandgap Thin-Film Solar Cells, 2021
  • Biologically Inspired Design: A Primer, 2021

The scientist has been recognized with several fellowships:

  • IEEE Fellow (2016) for contributions to isotropic chiral, bianisotropic materials, and metamaterials
  • Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) (2012) with a citation for conceptualization of sculptured thin films and multidisciplinary research in optics including biomedical and forensic applications
  • Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) (2009)
  • SPIE Fellow (1996)

Best Publications

  • Chiral sculptured thin films

    K. Robbie;M. J. Brett;Akhlesh Lakhtakia

  • Time-Harmonic Electromagnetic Fields in Chiral Media

    A. Lakhtakia;V. K. Varadan;V. V. Varadan

  • Electrodynamics of carbon nanotubes: Dynamic conductivity, impedance boundary conditions, and surface wave propagation

    G. Ya. Slepyan;S. A. Maksimenko;A. Lakhtakia;O. Yevtushenko

  • Beltrami Fields in Chiral Media

    Akhlesh Lakhtakia

  • Surface Plasmon Resonance for Biosensing: A Mini-Review

    Ibrahim Abdulhalim;Mohammad Zourob;Akhlesh Lakhtakia

  • FIRST THIN FILM REALIZATION OF A HELICOIDAL BIANISOTROPIC MEDIUM

    Kevin Robbie;Michael J. Brett;Akhlesh Lakhtakia

  • Electromagnetic Surface Waves: A Modern Perspective

    John Polo;Tom Mackay;Akhlesh Lakhtakia

  • A new condition to identify isotropic dielectric-magnetic materials displaying negative phase velocity

    Ricardo A. Depine;Akhlesh Lakhtakia

  • Theory of optical scattering by achiral carbon nanotubes and their potential as optical nanoantennas

    G. Ya. Slepyan;M. V. Shuba;S. A. Maksimenko;A. Lakhtakia

  • Introduction to Complex Mediums for Optics and Electromagnetics

    Werner S. Wieglhofer;Akhlesh Lakhtakia

  • The negative index of refraction demystified

    Martin W McCall;Akhlesh Lakhtakia;Werner S Weiglhofer

  • Engineered sculptured nematic thin films

    R. Messier;T. Gehrke;T. Gehrke;C. Frankel;V. C. Venugopal

  • Surface electromagnetic waves: A review

    John A. Polo;Akhlesh Lakhtakia

  • Field equations, Huygens’s principle, integral equations, and theorems for radiation and scattering of electromagnetic waves in isotropic chiral media

    Akhlesh Lakhtakia;Vasundara V. Varadan;Vijay K. Varadan

  • Errata:. Strong and Weak Forms of the Method of Moments and the Coupled Dipole Method for Scattering of Time-Harmonic Electromagnetic Fields

    Akhlesh Lakhtakia

  • Vacuum deposition of chiral sculptured thin films with high optical activity

    Ian Hodgkinson;Qi hong Wu;Ben Knight;Akhlesh Lakhtakia

  • Scattering and absorption characteristics of lossy dielectric, chiral, nonspherical objects

    Akhlesh Lakhtakia;Vijay K. Varadan;Vasundara V. Varadan

  • Electromagnetic Anisotropy And Bianisotropy: A Field Guide

    Tom G Mackay;Akhlesh Lakhtakia

  • Terahertz conductivity peak in composite materials containing carbon nanotubes: Theory and interpretation of experiment

    G. Ya. Slepyan;M. V. Shuba;S. A. Maksimenko;C. Thomsen

  • Circular polarization filters made of chiral sculptured thin films: experimental and simulation results

    Qihong Wu;Ian J. Hodgkinson;Akhlesh Lakhtakia

Frequent Co-Authors

Vijay K. Varadan
Vijay K. Varadan University of Arkansas at Fayetteville
Vasundara V. Varadan
Vasundara V. Varadan University of Arkansas at Fayetteville
Russell Messier
Russell Messier Pennsylvania State University
Peter Monk
Peter Monk University of Delaware
Jian Xu
Jian Xu Pennsylvania State University
Satish T. S. Bukkapatnam
Satish T. S. Bukkapatnam Texas A&M University
Thomas E. Mallouk
Thomas E. Mallouk University of Pennsylvania
Carlo G. Pantano
Carlo G. Pantano Pennsylvania State University
Magdy F. Iskander
Magdy F. Iskander University of Hawaii at Manoa
Soundar R. T. Kumara
Soundar R. T. Kumara Pennsylvania State University

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