A monocrystalline silicon substrate has formed on a surface a grating pattern manifested by a series of parallel grooves, a layer of dielectric is thermally grown on said surface to replicate said pattern on an opposite surface of said dielectric and a layer of silicon deposited on said opposite surface of said dielectric is single crystal silicon determined by said grating. The structure formed enables the deposited single crystal layer to be selectively treated to provide at least one piezoresistive sensing element to thereby provide a transducer having both the force collector or substrate and the sensing elements of single crystal silicon and dielectrically isolated by means of said dielectric layer.