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Because resistive sensing consumes significant power, in contrast to capacitive sensing, such MEMS have been excluded from all applications whose power supply is restricted. Capacitive transduction is then preferred for many MEMS despite the complex fabrication process and the price increase of the overall application.

LIRMM's team leader Pascal Nouet claimed that resistive sensors can be a very competitive transduction method if and only if an efficient conditioning and read-out electronics is used.