TS Series - Crystal temperature sensors

The TS quartz temperature sensors are tuning fork quartz crystals

vibrating in a torsional mode. The crystals are designed so that their

frequency is both extremely sensitive to temperature and highly

linear. For example. the 172.0kHz design has a sensitivity of around

+46.4ppm/°C. This high sensitivity enables the detection of fine

temperature changes, the degree of which is dependant upon the

implementation. Further, this frequency-based technique has the

advantage of being immune to amplitude noise in the measurement

system, a feature not shared by thermocouple, thermistor or RTD

based temperature sensing techniques. Lastly, remote temperature

sensing is possible by using an antenna to pick up the frequency of

the EM waves emitted by the sensor.