Classification of Transducers
Classification of Transducers
Transducer is a device that converts primary form of energy into other different energy form
only for measurement purposes.
Classification of Transducers
• Principle of use: resistive, capacitive, inductive, piezoelectric, photoelectric, etc
• Primary or secondary
• Active or passive
• Analog or digital
b) Electrical
• Resistive: displacement to resistance change
• Inductive: displacement /velocity to inductance change
• Capacitive: displacement to capacitance change
• Electronic: displacement to current / voltage
• Piezoelectric: pressure to voltage
• Photoelectric: light to voltage
Measurable Quantity
• Acoustic: wave (amplitude, phase, polarization), spectrum, velocity
• Electric: charge, current, voltage, electric field (amplitude, phase, polarization,
spectrum), conductivity, permittivity,
• Magnetic: magnetic field (amplitude, phase, polarization, spectrum), flux,
permeability
• Optical: wave (amplitude, phase, polarization, spectrum), velocity, refractive index,
emissivity, reflectivity, absorption
• Thermal: temperature, flux, specific heat, thermal conductivity
• Mechanical: position (linear, angular), acceleration, force, stress, pressure, strain,
mass, density, moment, torque, shape, roughness, orientation, stiffness, compliance,
crystallinity, structure
Resistive Transducer
Inductive Transducer (LVDT)
Capacitive Transducer
Piezoelectric Transducer
Ultrasound Transducer