In this respect the field of sensors is similar to the IC industry, which integrates technologies from material science, electronic circuit design, structural packaging, and sputter deposition of thin film coatings. Apart from the complex designs of the sensor components themselves, they also must be combined with different specialized technologies, depending upon what they are designed to do.
正如 IC 製造業是結合了材料、電路設計、構裝和薄膜塗佈等各不相同的技術範疇，感測也是一樣，除了元件本身構造複雜外，還依著感測標的不同，需要不同的專業技術。