Transducer
A transducer is a device that converts one type of energy to another, or responds to a physical parameter. A transducer is in its fundamental form a passive component. If the component is electrical then it generally has two electrical terminals.
See also electronics, gear.
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List of transducers
- Electrochemical:
- Electromechanical:
- actuator
- circuit breaker
- dynamo
- galvanometer
- MEMS
- motor, linear motor
- servomechanism
- switch
- piezoelectric
- quartz
- relay
- strain gauge used in weight/force measuring.
- Electroacoustic:
- Photoelectric:
- Electromagnetic:
- Magnetic:
- Electrostatic:
- Thermoelectric:
- thermocouple
- Peltier cooler
- thermistor (includes PTC resistor and NTC resistor)
- Other:
- Geiger-Müller tube used for measuring radioactivity.
- Electronic. These components change one electrical parameter in response to another. By some definitions these are electronic components, not transducers.
- diode
- gyrator
- varicap diode, varactor diode, tuning diode
- negative impedance converter, NIC
- Schottky diode
- transistor, Field effect transistor (FET)
- Transorb
- tunneling diode
- varistor
- voltage-dependent resistor
- Zener diode
- Electrical. These components change one electrical parameter in response to another. By some definitions these are passive electronic components, not transducers.
- Mechanical.
