Non-Reciprocal Materials and Systems

Dr. Prabhakar Bandaru is presently a Professor in the Mechanical Engineering Department (MAE), at U.C. San Diego. He is an Affiliate Professor of the Center for Memory and Recording Research (CMRR) department. Professor Bandaru is also affiliated to the Electrical Engineering (ECE) and the Nanoengineering (Nano) departments at UCSD. His research group is mainly interested in topics related to electrochemical energy storage, control of thermal energy, and fluid flow at the nanoscale. The basis of the underlying investigations is materials physics and chemistry, invoking the electrical, optical, and thermal properties of materials at the mesoscopic and microscopic levels.

1. Nonreciprocity versus asymmetry
2. Microscopic processes and related energy flow leading to
nonreciprocity
3. Energy propagation in media
4. The arguments for reciprocity in electrodynamics and
associated phenomena
5. Real-space and energy-space features of materials systems
6. Considerations of nonreciprocity in electrical and optical
systems
7. The manifestation of nonreciprocity, in dynamical systems
8. Exploring new avenues for the manifestation of reciprocal
phenomena
9. Applications of nonreciprocity to practical devices