Patents
July 2022 - Present
1. A. K. Chowdhary and D. Sikdar, A Passive Radiative Cooler System, App. No: 202231043104 (filed on July 27, 2022)
2. T. Bhowmik, A. K. Chowdhary, and D. Sikdar, Frequency-scalable Polarization-insensitive Dual-mode Electro-Optic modulators, App. No: 202231066529 (filed on November 19, 2022)
Journal Publications
December 2020 - Present
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11. T. Bhowmik, A. K. Chowdhary, and D. Sikdar, Polarization- and Angle-insensitive Tunable Metasurface for Electro-Optic Modulation,IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, 2023. [Link] 2021 IF: 2.4 (Q1)
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10. A. K. Chowdhary, T. Bhowmik, and D. Sikdar, Infrared-blocking Plasmonic Meta-glasses for Energy-saving Passive Windows, Optics Letters, 47, 2242–2245, 2022. [Link] 2020 IF: 3.8 (Q1) (Featured in Spotlight on Optics)
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9. KM Dhriti, A. K. Chowdhary, B. S. Chouhan, D. Sikdar, and G. Kumar, Tunable Terahertz Absorption Modulation in Graphene Nanoribbon-assisted Dielectric Metamaterial, Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, 55 (28), 285101, 2022. [Link] 2020 IF: 3.2 (Q1)
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8. T. Bhowmik, A. K. Chowdhary, and D. Sikdar, Grating-assisted Polarization-insensitive Dual-Mode Spatial Light Modulators using an Epsilon-Near-Zero Material, IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics, 58 (4), 1–8, 2022. [Link] 2020 IF: 2.3 (Q1)​​​​
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7. A. K. Chowdhary, V. A. Reddy, and D. Sikdar, Nanophotonics-enabled High-efficiency Selective Solar Absorbers for Waste Heat Management, IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology, 21, 131–136, 2022. [Link] 2020 IF: 2.6 (Q2)
6. A. K. Chowdhary, and D. Sikdar, Multilayer thin-film based nanophotonic windows: static versus electrotunable design, Journal of Optics, 24, 024002, 2022. [Link] 2020 IF: 2.5 (Q1)
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5. A. K. Chowdhary, V. A. Reddy, and D. Sikdar, Selective Thermal Emitters for High-performance All-day Radiative Cooling, Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, 55 (8), 085504, 2022. [Link] 2020 IF: 3.2 (Q1) (Covered by International News Media)
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4. A. K. Chowdhary and D. Sikdar, Design of Electrotunable All-weather Smart Windows, Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells, 222, 110921, 2021. [Link] 2020 IF: 7.3 (Q1) (Covered by International News Media)
3. A. K. Chowdhary, T. Bhowmik, J. Gupta, and D. Sikdar, Energy-saving All-weather Window Based on Selective Filtering of Solar Spectral Radiation, Applied Optics, 60 (5), 1315–1325, 2021. [Link] 2020 IF: 2.0 (Q1)
2. A. K. Chowdhary, T. Bhowmik, and D. Sikdar, Polarization- and Angle-insensitive Ultra-broadband Perfect Metamaterial Absorber for Thermophotovoltaics, Journal of the Optical Society of America B, 38 (2), 327–335, 2021. [Link] 2020 IF: 2.1 (Q1) (Featured in Top-Downloaded Articles on Metamaterials Among the OSA Journals)
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1. A. K. Chowdhary and D. Sikdar, Low-power Design of Electrotunable Color Filters and Optical Switches, Journal of the Optical Society of America B, 37, 3865–3873 (2020). [Link] 2020 IF: 2.1 (Q1)
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Conference Publications
December 2019 - Present
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12. J. Gupta, P. Das, A. K. Chowdhary, R. Bhattacharjee, and D. Sikdar, Thin-Wire Array based Resonator for Targeted Clinical 1.5T Magnetic Resonance Imaging, 2022 IEEE Photonics Conference (IPC), 1–2 (2022). Location: Vancouver, BC, Canada. [Link]
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11. T. Bhowmik, A. K. Chowdhary, and D. Sikdar, Energy-efficient Polarization-insensitive Electro-tunable Metasurface for Optical Intensity Modulation, International Conference on Optical MEMS and Nanophotonics (OMN), 2022. Location: Israel. [Status: Presented on Sep-2022]
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10. A. K. Chowdhary, T. Bhowmik, J. Gupta, and D. Sikdar, Ultraviolet and Infrared Blocking Meta-glasses for Smart Electric Vehicles, 22nd International Conference on Numerical Simulation of Optoelectronic Devices (NUSOD), 2022. Location: Italy. [Link]
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9. A. K. Chowdhary, V. A. Reddy, T. Bhowmik, and D. Sikdar, Vanadium Dioxide Assisted Thermo-optic Metamaterial Absorbers for Optical Switching, in 2022 Workshop on Recent Advances in Photonics (WRAP), 1–2 (2022). Location: Mumbai, India. [Link]
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8. B. S. Chouhan, KM Dhriti, A. K. Chowdhary, D. Sikdar, and G. Kumar, Modulating broadband terahertz in a Graphene assisted dielectric Metamaterial, in 2022 Workshop on Recent Advances in Photonics (WRAP), 1– 2 (2022). Location: Mumbai, India. [Link]
7. T. Bhowmik, A. K. Chowdhary, J. Gupta, and D. Sikdar, Coupling-assisted Epsilon-Near-Zero Material based Energy-efficient Electro-Absorption Modulator, in 2022 Workshop on Recent Advances in Photonics (WRAP), 1–2 (2022). Location: Mumbai, India. [Link]
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6. A. K Chowdhary, V. A. Reddy, T. Bhowmik, and D. Sikdar, Spectrally Selective Nanophotonic Windows for Aiding Photosynthesis in Greenhouses, 2021 IEEE Photonics Conference (IPC), 1–2 (2021). Location: Vancouver, BC, Canada. [Link]
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5. T. Bhowmik, A. K. Chowdhary, A. Kumar, and D. Sikdar, Guided-Mode Resonance based All-dielectric Optical Intensity Modulator, 2021 IEEE Photonics Conference (IPC), 1-2 (2021). Location: Vancouver, BC, Canada. [Link]
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4. A. K. Chowdhary, A. Kumar, and D. Sikdar, Cross–Ring Based Broadband Plasmonic Metamaterial Absorbers for Boosting Silicon Solar Cell Efficiency, 15th International Congress on Artificial Materials for Novel Wave Phenomena - Metamaterials 2021, 102–104 (2021). Location: New York, USA. [Link]
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3. T. Bhowmik, A. Kumar, A. K. Chowdhary, and D. Sikdar, Polarization-insensitive Electro-tunable Broadband Plasmonic Metamaterial Absorber for Amplitude Modulation, 2021 Fifteenth International Congress on Artificial Materials for Novel Wave Phenomena (Metamaterials), 050–052 (2021). Location: New York City, USA. [Link]
2. A. K. Chowdhary and D. Sikdar, Nanophotonic All-weather Windows for Energy-efficient Smart Buildings, 2021 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 1–2 (2021). Location: San Jose, California, USA. [Link]
1. A. K. Chowdhary and D. Sikdar, Ultra-broadband Wide-Angle Metallo-Dielectric Metamaterial Absorber for Solar Energy Harvesting, in 2019 Workshop on Recent Advances in Photonics (WRAP), 1–3 (2019). Location: Guwahati, India. [Link]