Biography
Aravinda Kar received his PhD degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and is an Associate Professor of Optics, MMAE (Mechanical, Materials and Aerospace Engineering) and Physics at UCF. His research interest is Laser Advanced Materials Processing such as (1) Materials processing, synthesis and modeling, (2) Device structure fabrication and prototyping, (3) Laser-assisted manufacturing and micromachining and (4) Advanced manufacturing thermal science (Thermofluids analysis of manufacturing technology.
Awards & Honors
Fellow of the Laser Institute of America
LIA Fellow
2005
Elected to the Board of Directors of the Laser Institute of America
2002
TIP (UCF’s Teaching Incentive Program) Award
2001
ICALEO’01 Student Paper Award Competition: Yonggang Li
2000
ICALEO’00 Student Paper Award Competition: Jihua Du
2000
Fifth Annual Tibbetts Award
2000
American Welding Society award Henry Grajon Prize: Jian Xie
1999
First Prize Student Paper Award Competition: Jihua Du
1999
ICALEO’99 Student Paper Award Competition: Franz Josef Kahlen
Recent Publications
Komerath, Narayanan M.; Pant, Rajkumar; Kar, Aravinda
"An Architecture Using Lighter-Than-Air Platforms for Retail Power Beaming and Communications"
Journal of Low Power Electronics, Volume 8, Number 3, June 2012 , pp. 261-269(9)
G. Lim, T. Manzur, and A. Kar
"Improved optical properties and detectivity of an uncooled silicon carbide mid-wave infrared optical detector with increased dopant concentration"
Journal Of Optics 14(10)
N. Komerath, and A. Kar
"Retail Beamed Power Using Millimeter Waves: Survey"
Acm Journal On Emerging Technologies In Computing Systems 8(3)
2011
G. Lim and A. Kar
"Effects of laser scans on the diffusion depth and diffusivity of gallium in n-type 4H-SiC during laser doping"
Materials Science and Engineering B - Advanced Functional Solid-State Materials 176(8), pp. 660-668
2011
G. Lim, T. Manzur, and A. Kar
"Optical response of laser-doped silicon carbide for an uncooled midwave infrared detector"
Applied Optics 50(17), pp. 2640-2653
A. Jocelyn, A. Kar, A. Fanourakis, T. Flower, M. Ackerman, A. Keevil, and J. Way
"Indirect Versus Direct Heating of Sheet Materials: Superplastic Forming and Diffusion Bonding Using Lasers"
Journal of Materials Engineering and Performance 19(4), pp. 527-532
G. Lim, U.P. DeSilva, N.R. Quick, A. Kar
"Laser Optical Gas Sensor by Photoexcitation Effect on Refractive Index"
Applied Optics 49(9), pp. 1563-1573
C. Zhang, N. R. Quick and A. Kar
"Diffractive Optical Elements for Pitchfork Beam Shaping"
Optical Engineering, Vol. 48, 2009, pp. 078001
A. Jocelyn, A. Kar, A. Fanourakis, T. Flower, M. Ackerman, A. Keevil, and J. Way
"From technology push, to industrial pull: superplastic forming and diffusion bonding using lasers"
Materialwissenschaft und Werkstofftechnik, vol. 40, no. 8, pp. 601-605
G. Lim, U. P. DeSilva, N. R. Quick and A. Kar
"Laser Optical Gas Sensor by Photoexcitation Effect on Refractive Index"
Applied Optics
