Book Chapter

B. Behkam, M. Sitti, “Bacteria Integrated Swimming Micro-robots,” in M. Lungarella, et al., (eds.), 50 Years of AI, Festschrift, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence 4850, pp. 154-163, 2007.

 Refereed Journal Publications

B. Behkam, M. Sitti, “Effect of Quantity and Configuration of Attached Bacteria on Bacterial Propulsion of Micro-Beads,” Applied Physics Letters (under review).

 B. Behkam, M. Sitti, “Bacterial Flagella-Based Propulsion and On/Off Motion Control of Microscale Objects,” Applied Physics Letters, 90: 023902-023904, 2007. Selected for the January 29, 2007 issue of Virtual Journal of Nanoscale Science & Technology.

 B. Behkam and M. Sitti, “Design Methodology for Biomimetic Propulsion of Miniature Swimming Robots,” ASME Journal of Dynamic Systems Measurement and Control, 128 (1): 36-43, 2006.

B. Behkam, Y. Yang and M. Asheghi, “Thermal Property Measurement of Thin Aluminum Oxide Layers for Giant Magnetoresistive (GMR) Application,” International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 48(10): 2023-2031, 2005. 

 Peer-Reviewed Conference Publications

B. Behkam, A. S. Nain, C. H. Amon, and M. Sitti, “Design and Numerical Modeling of an On-Board Chemical Release Module for Motion Control of Bacteria-Propelled Swimming Micro-robots,” Proceedings of the ASME International Mechanical Engineering Conference and Exposition, 2008 (to appear).

 B. Behkam, and M. Sitti, “Bacterial Propulsion of Chemically Patterned Micro-Cylinders,” Proceedings of the IEEE-RAS-EMBC International Conference on Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics, 2008 (to appear).

 B. Behkam and M. Sitti, “Bacterial-Flagella Assisted Propulsion of Patterned Latex Particles: Effect of Particle Size,” IEEE International Conference on Nanotechnology, pp. 723-727, 2007.

 B. Behkam and M. Sitti, “Toward Hybrid Swimming Micro-robots: Propulsion by an Array of Bacteria,” Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference of Engineering in Medicine and Biology, pp. 2421-2424, 2006.

B. Behkam and M. Sitti, “Modeling and Testing of a Biomimetic Flagellar Propulsion Method for Microscale Biomedical Swimming Robots,” Proceeding of  the IEEE/ASME International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics, pp. 37 – 42, 2005. 

B. Behkam and M. Sitti, “E. Coli Inspired Propulsion for Swimming Microrobots,” Proceedings of the ASME International Mechanical Engineering Conference and Exposition, IMECE2004-59621, 2004. 

B. Behkam, Y. Yang and M. Asheghi, “Thermal Property Measurement of Thin Aluminum Oxide Layers for Giant Magnetoresistive (GMR) Application,” Proceedings of the ASME International Mechanical Engineering Conference and Exposition, IMECE2003-41626, 2003.

 M. Asheghi, B. Behkam, K. Yazdani, R. Joshi and K. E. Goodson, “Thermal Conductivity Model for Thin Silicon-on-Insulator Layers at High Temperatures,”  Proceedings of  the IEEE International SOI Conference, pp. 51-52, 2002.