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Indeed, we show, both theoretically and experimentally, that this condition yields higher sensitivities and similar sensitivity ranges than that of resonance peak tracking while being less time consuming than a classical open-loop configuration due to the absence of frequency sweep. The system is made of a quartz resonator and a hardware that includes a resonator and the coupling. The digital aspect allows maximum sensitivity to be achieved with a fine tuning of the different parameters and the implementation of a coupling, regardless of the physical resonator geometry. This allows the generation of mode localization on shear waves resonant structures such as the quartz cristal microbalance widely used in biosensing. This solution has been successfully implemented using resin micro balls depositions. 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