The 4 Wire Resitive touchscreen consists of a glass layer with a conductive coating on top and a polyester top sheet with a conductive coating on the bottom. The conductive surfaces are held apart by "spacer dots", usually glass beads that are silk-screened onto the coated glass.

When a person presses on the top sheet, its conductive side comes in contact with the conductive side of the glass, effectively closing a circuit (this is called pressure sensing). The voltage at the point of contact is read from a wire connected to the top sheet.It can be touched by finger, gloved finger, leather or stylus pen.It is inherently of many advantages such as high accuracy, quick response, drift-free, stable and long durability for a life time of 1,000,000 times finger touches.

The 5 wrie resistive touch screen is a two-layer structure, two materials (film or glass) with ITO are attached with a gap between them so that the ITO layers are facing each other. Touch input will be made as the top layer is pressed down and the two ITO layers contact. There are insulators called spacing dots between the top and bottom ITO layers. These spacing dots prevent unintended contacts (inputs) of the ITO layers when not pressed.

When the top ITO film is pressed and makes contact with the bottom glass, the contacted area will be detected via electrical conduction. The notable characteristic of 5wire resistive is that only the bottom glass has detecting function. Even if the top ITO film is damaged, the detecting function will not be affected (except for the damaged area).

Capacitive touch screen is a four-storey glass screen surface and laminated within the glass screen is coated with a layer of ITO, the outermost layer is a thin layer of silica glass, laminated ITO coating as a face, four electrode leads in the four corners, inner ITO good shielding to ensure a good working environment.

When finger touch the metal layer that is, because the body farm, users and touch-screen surface with a coupling capacitor, high frequency current, capacitance is a direct conductor, so fingers sucked away a very small amount of current from the contact point. The respectively current outflow from the touch electrode on the four corners of the screen, and flows through the four electrode current is proportional to the distance from the fingers to the four corners, controller through the accurate calculation of the four current percentage, came to the location of the touch point.

Infrared touch screen is to use a dense matrix of infra-red x, y directions to detect and locate the user's touch. Infrared touch screen installed in front of the monitor box outside a circuit board, circuit board arranged on four sides of the screen infrared led and an infrared receiver and corresponding anyway cross the infrared matrix.

When users touch the screen, fingers will be blocked anyway after the location for both infrared and therefore can judge the position of the touch points on the screen .it can detect essentially any input including a finger, gloved finger, stylus or pen.

Surface Acoustic Wave (SAW) touch screen uses ultrasonic waves that pass over the touchscreen panel. When the panel is touched, a portion of the wave is absorbed. This change in the ultrasonic waves registers the position of the touch event and sends this information to the controller for processing. Surface wave touchscreen panels can be damaged by outside elements. Contaminants on the surface can also interfere with the functionality of the touchscreen. Surface Acoustic Wave (SAW) touch screen is based on sending acoustic waves across a clear glass panel with a series of transducers and reflectors.

When a finger touches the screen, the waves are absorbed, causing a touch event to be detected at that point. SAW touch screen technology is recommended for public information kiosks and other high traffic indoor environments.

Optical touch screen is composed by two optical image capture sensor and reflective strip. When objects contact with glass or transparent material, the optical effect of the touch point will be changed since the optical changing. It will generate relative distance between touch point and sensor, thus computing out of the touch position .

Optical touch screen technology uses multiple optical sensors to detect the touch point, which registers the touch just before physical contact with the screen. This means that users can apply zero or light touch to the screen to initiate a response, and any input device, such as a finger, gloved finger, pen, or stylus will work.