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The following list notes
various technologies used in the sensing/detecting part of a sensor:
- Acoustic
- Bimetallic
- Biosensor
- Bourdon Tube
- Calorimetrics
- Capacitive
- Catalytic Combustibles
- Charge-Coupled Device
- Chromatography
- Conductive
- Coriolis
- Differential Pressure
- Differential Temperature
- Doppler
- Eddy Current
- Electro-Optic
- Electrochemical
- Electrolytic
- Electromagnetic
- Electromechanical
- Electronic Noses
- Electrostatic
- Encoder/resolver/synchro/LVDT
- Engineered materials
- Fiber-Optic
- Force Transducer
- Giant Magnetoresistive
- Hall Effect
- Hot Film/Wire Anemometry
- Hybrid Integrated Circuit
- Hydraulic/Pneumatic
- Inductive
- Infrared
- Interferometry
- Laser
- Leak detectors
- Load cells, weighing equipment, scales
- Machine Vision
- Magnetic
- Magneto-Optic
- Magnetoelastic
- Magnetohydrodynamic
- Magnetoresistive
- Magnetorheological
- Magnetostrictive
- Mechanical
- Membrane Separation
- MEMS
- Microwave
- Optical
- Optical (Laser) Power Conversion
- Optoelectronic
- Paramagnetic
- Photoelectric
- Photomultipliers
- Phototransistor/Diode
- Piezoelectric
- Piezoresistive
- Plasma
- Positive Displacement
- Potentiometric
- Pyroelectric
- Quartz
- Radiation
- Radio Frequency
- Reed Switch
- Resistive
- RTD
- Semiconductor/IC
- Silicon
- Specialty Materials, see Engineered Materials
- Spectroscopy
- Strain Gauge
- Superconductivity
- Surface Acoustic Wave
- Tactile Sensors
- Thermal
- Thermistor
- Thermocouple
- Thermometer
- Thick Film
- Thin Film
- Triboelectric
- Turbine
- Ultrasonic
- Ultraviolet
- Vacuum
- Variable Reluctance
- Vibrating Element
- Vortex Shedding
- Wiegand Effect
- Wirewound
- Zirconium Oxide
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