Publications

JOURNAL PAPERS

  1. Maharjan, A., Waiba, P., Shrestha, S., Maharjan, R., Martins, A., Li, K., Martins, E., Krauss, T.F., and Dhakal, A., When a lensless fluorometer outperforms a lensed system, Optica Vol. 11, Issue 8, pp. 1124-1128 (2024). Optica Publishing Group 2024. Selected for worldwide news release.
  2. Sharma, R., Bhattarai, N., Maharjan, R., Woods, L., Ojha, N., and Dhakal, A., Upconversion of infrared light by graphitic micro-particles due to photo-induced structural modification, Advanced Photonics Research 2300326, Wiley 2024. Selected for back-cover of issue.
  3. (Invited) Maharjan, R., Thapa, A., Rajbhandari, P., and Dhakal, A., Research institutes from nest eggs: challenges and the way forward. Nat Rev Methods Primers 4, 3, 2024.
  4. Poudel, A., Bhattarai, P., Maharjan, R., Coke, M., Curry, R. J., Crowe, I. and Dhakal, A., Spectrometer based on compact disordered multimode interferometer, Optics Express, Vol. 31, No. 8, 2023
  5. Sharma, R., Thapa, A., Maharjan, R. and Dhakal, A., Distinguishing chemically similar particles in a complex environment via modulated field spectrometry, Optics Continuum, Vol. 2, No. 2, 2023.
  6. Maharjan, R., Bohora, S., Bhattarai, P., Crowe, I., Curry, R. J., Hogg, R., Childs, D. and Dhakal, A., Non-diffracting beam generated from a photonic integrated circuit based axicon-like lens, Optics Express, Vol. 29, No. 7, 2021.
  7. Maharjan, R., O’Reilly, E., Postiglione, T., Klimenko, N. and Brown, E., Relation between dilation and stress fluctuations in discontinuous shear thickening suspensions, Physical Review E, Vol. 103, 012603, 2020.
  8. Littlejohns, C., Rowe, D. J., Du, H., Li, K., Zhang, W., Cao, W., Bucio, T. D., Yan, X., Banakar, M., Tran, D., Liu, S., Meng, F., Chen, B., Qi, Y., Chen, X., Nedeljkovic, M., Mastronardi, L., Maharjan, R., Bohora, S., Dhakal, A., Crowe, I., Khurana, A., Balram, K. C., Zagaglia, L., Floris, F., O’Brien, P., Di Gaetano, E., Chong, E. MH., Gardes, F. Y., Thomson, D. J., Mashanovich, G. Z., Sorel, M., Reed, G. T., CORNERSTONE’s Silicon Photonics Rapid Prototyping Platforms: Current Status and Future Outlook, Applied Sciences, Vol. 10, No. 22, 8201, 2020.
  9. Maharjan, R. and Brown, E., Effective packing fraction for better resolution near the critical point of shear thickening suspensions, Physical Review E, Vol. 99, 042604, 2019.
  10. Maharjan, R., Mukhopadhyay, S., Sokol, B., Allen, B., Storz, T. and Brown, E., Constitutive relation for the system-spanning dynamically jammed region in response to impact of cornstarch and water suspensions, Physical Review E, Vol. 97, 052602, 2018.
  11. Allen, B., Sokol, B., Mukhopadhyay, S., Maharjan, R. and Brown, E., Structure of the system-spanning dynamically jammed region in response to impact of cornstarch and water suspensions, Physical Review E, Vol. 97, 052603, 2018.
  12. Tan, Y.J. and Maharjan, R., What googling trends tell us about public interest in earthquakes, Seismological Research Letters, Vol. 89(2A), 653-657, 2018.
  13. Maharjan, R. and Brown, E., Giant deviation of a relaxation time from generalized Newtonian theory in discontinuous shear thickening suspensions, Physical Review Fluids, Vol. 2, 123301, 2017.
  14. Sabatino, D.R. and Maharjan, R., Characterizing the formation and regeneration of hairpin vortices in a laminar boundary layer, Physics of Fluids, Vol. 27(12), 124104, 2015.
  15. Nicodemus, J.H., McGuinness, M. and Maharjan, R., A thermodynamic and cost analysis of solar syngas from the Zn/ZnO cycle, Journal of Solar Energy Engineering, Vol. 137(1), 011012, 2015.

PEER REVIEWED CONFERENCE PAPERS

  1. Dahal, A., Gurung, S., Kattel, A., Maharjan, R., Radford, J., Binner, P., Starshynov, I., Faccio, D., and Dhakal, A., Low-cost Dynamic Light Scattering to Detect Rotavirus Particles in Drinking Water, Frontiers in Optics + Laser Science, JDA4.50-1. Optica Publishing Group, 2024. Overall Winner of the poster competition.
  2. (Invited) Maharjan, R., Thapa, A., Rajbhandari, P., Faccio, D., Martins, E. R., Krauss, T. F., and Dhakal, A., A Case for Optics-based Microbial Risk Assessment of Potable Water. Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, Optica Publishing Group, 2024.
  3. (Invited) Waiba. P., Bakhunchhe, R., Maharjan, A., Pradhan, R., Timilsina, S., Maharjan, R., Krauss, T.F., and Dhakal, A, RealtimeWAS: A Low-Cost, Portable Device for Real-time Detection of Fecal Contamination in Drinking Water, FM5G.3 Use Photonics. Change the World: Environment Symposium, Frontiers in Optics + Laser Science, 2023.
  4. (Invited) Maharjan, R., Thapa, A., Parajuli, N., Bastola, S., Gautam, S., Waiba, P., Rajbhandari, P., Martins, E.R., Krauss, T. F., and Dhakal, A., Improving Detection of Fecal Contamination in Water Using Machine-Learning-Assisted Fluorescence Spectra Analysis,  AM4A.1 Applied Industrial Spectroscopy (AIS) at Optica Sensing Congress. Munich, 2023
  5. Bhattarai, P., Bohora, S., Maharjan, R., Crowe, I., and Dhakal, A., MMI-based compact spectrometer, Frontiers in Optics + Laser Science, FTu2E. 2, 2020.
  6. Maharjan, R., Bohora, S., Hogg, R., Childs, D., Curry, R. J., Crowe, I., and Dhakal, A., Azimuthally Apodized Focusing Gratings, Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, Optical Society of America, 2020.

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