Fingerprint sensors on smartphones are convenient, but they don’t always work and, worse, can be fooled. http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4922915
Professor Horsley was recently interviewed by Randy Atkins on the National Academy of Engineering’s (NAE) radio show on the Washington, D.C. region’s most listened to radio station — WTOP. You can listen to a stream of the episode in the embedded player above, and also visit this website to subscribe to the podcast and browse the series archive.
To learn more about the ultrasonic fingerprint sensor and other research work being conducted at the UC Davis MEMS Laboratory, please click here. Our lab is also part of the Berkeley Sensor & Actuator Center (BSAC); you can view past and current projects headed by Professor Horsley at this link.