TOUCH SCREEN MONITORS
Many of us are using Touch Screen mobile phones.
Have you ever thought of what is inside it???
How it is working???
Whether it will sense any kind of material???
Here is the answer for such a kind of questions.....
Touch Screen Monitors are of three Basic types
Resistive
Capacitive
Surface
Acoustic Wave
RESISTIVE TOUCH
The resistive system consists of a glass panel with two
layers.
One is Conductive layer and other is Resistive layer.
Conductive layer is the base layer above that resistive
scratch layer is placed.
These two layers are separated by spacers (like a vacuum
layer not exactly).
An electrical current runs through these two layers.
When a user touches the screen, the two layers make contact
with each other and the electric current changes in that place.
The change in the electrical field is noted and the
coordinates of the point of contact are calculated in order to know the exact
location of the touch.
CAPACITIVE TOUCH
Before knowing about capacitive touch you should know what a
capacitor is.
Capacitor is a storing device that stores electrical charge.
In the capacitive system, a layer that stores electrical
charge is placed above the glass panel.
Because of the layer of electrical storage it is called
capacitive touch.
When a user touches the screen, the charges in the
capacitive layer decreased.
It is because our body is a conductor when we touch the
screen small amount of charge get into our body.
Hence the charge in
the capacitive layer decreases.
By the decrease of charge we can know the exact location of
touch.
SURFACE ACOUSTIC WAVE
On the glass panel of surface acoustic wave system, two
transducers are placed.
Reflectors are also placed on the glass panel, they reflect
electrical signal from one transducer to the other.
When a user touches the screen, the signal that is being
reflected will be disturbed.
With the location of disturbance we can find the exact place
of the touch.
WHICH IS BETTER???
When comparing all the three systems, surface acoustic wave
is the best one.
Because it won’t absorb any light, so that 100 percent
throughput is achieved.
It has perfect image clarity.
Capacitive touch has about 90 percent throughput whereas
resistive touch has 75 percent.
And other important feature of capacitive touch is that it
will work only if it is tochues by conductor.
All the other systems can be touched by any material.