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In contrast to passive sensors, actively operated sensors exploit a detuning of the resonance frequency caused by the signal to be measured. To detect the time-varying resonance frequency, the piezoelectric resonator is resonantly excited by a voltage, with this signal being modulated in both amplitude and phase by the signal to be measured. At the same time, the sensor signal is impaired by amplitude noise and phase noise caused by sensor-intrinsic noise sources that limit the reachable detectivities. This leads to the question of the optimum excitation frequency and the optimum readout type for such sensors. In this article, based on the fundamental properties of micromechanical resonators, a detailed analysis of the performance of piezoelectric resonators in amplitude mode and phase mode is presented. In particular, the sensitivities, the noise behavior, and the resulting limits of detection (LOD) are considered and analytical expressions are derived. For the first time, not only the influence of a static measurand is analyzed, but also the dynamic operation, i.e., physical quantities to be detected that quickly change over time. Accordingly, frequency-dependent limits of detection can be derived in the form of amplitude spectral densities. It is shown that the low-frequency LOD in phase mode is always about 6 dB better than the LOD in amplitude mode. 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