Directory Record for:

Akhlesh Lakhtakia

Title(s):

Charles Godfrey Binder Professor of Engineering Science and Mechanics

Department:

Engineering Science and Mechanics

College/Admin. Unit:

College of Engineering

Office Address:

212 Earth-Engineering Sciences Building

University Park, PA 16802

Office Phone:

(814) 863-4319

Office Fax:

(814) 865-9974

E-Mail Address:

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Web Page(s):

http://www.esm.psu.edu

http://www.esm.psu.edu/~axl4

Research Synopsis:

Wave-material interaction; Complex mediums; Chiral materials; Anisotropic and bianisotropic materials; Sculptured thin films; Carbon nanotubes; Negative phase-velocity mediums (aka left-handed material); Structurally chiral mediums; Nanomodeling; Fractals and chaos

Technologies Impacted by Research:

Optics and photonics, Microwaves, Thin films

Selected Publications:

A. Lakhtakia and R. Messier, Sculptured Thin Films: Nanoengineered Morphology and Optics, Bellingham, WA: SPIE Press (2005).
A. Lakhtakia (Editor), Nanometer Structures: Theory, Modeling, and Simulation, Bellingham, WA: SPIE Press (2004).
W.S. Weiglhofer & A. Lakhtakia (Editors), Introduction to Complex Mediums for Optics and Electromagnetics, Bellingham, WA: SPIE Press (2003).