5.3 Classification of Transducers

We have tabulated the class of transducers and some important measurands in Table 5.1. The name of each class is keyed to the transduction mechanism, but its explanation is given along with the description of the transducer. Table 5.1 should allow the instrumentation technologist to select the transducer most suitable for the measurand of choice. Moreover, cross indexing to the literature in the reference section is provided, wherever required, to the transducer class-measurand combination.

In addition, the table also includes several other transducers such as fiberoptic transducers, surface-profiling transducers (SPT), wave-propagation transducers (WPT), intravascular imaging and Doppler transducers, surface acoustic wave (SAW) transducers, acoustooptic (AO) transducers, Hall-effect transducers, and ChemFET transducers.