As the temperature goes down from room to 10 K, the light yield of all studied crystals increases. Since the light yield of the crystal increases as temperature decreases toward 10 K, this experimental setup can be used for the characterization of luminescence and scintillation properties of a single crystal for rare event searches such as neutrinoless double-beta decay and dark matter.This paper describes the design, fabrication, and testing of an integrated packaged sensor that is composed of a micro resonant accelerometer and a temperature sensor. The resonant accelerometer with differential configuration consists of double quartz resonators and a silicon substrate. When acceleration is applied along the sensing axis, the inertial force induced by the proof mass will transfer force to the resonators, which causes an opposite frequency shift of the dual quartz resonators. The loaded acceleration can be measured through detecting the differential frequency shift. The symmetric differential configuration response to spurious effects of thermal loading and inelastic effect causing prestress in the resonators is similar, which can be reduced by detecting the differential frequency, effectively. However, during the manufacture and packaging process, the otherness of residual stress in two quartz resonators results in that the response of resonators to temperature variation is not strictly the same. In other words, this temperature drift cannot be eliminated by the structure design. Thus, a temperature sensor and an accelerometer were packaged in a shell together. These novel integrated sensors can measure acceleration and temperature simultaneously. With the testing temperature data, a novel temperature compensation that is a combination of the variable coefficient regression and least squares support vector machine is used for improving the performance of the accelerometer. By means of this compensation and field programmable gate array, a real-time and online compensation is achieved. The tumble testing results indicate that the sensitivity of the accelerometer is ∼16.97 Hz/g. With the temperature compensation, the output drift of the scale factor is improved by 0.605 Hz/g in the full temperature range, which is from 0.072 Hz/g to 0.015 Hz/g. The drift of zero bias is improved from 345 mg to 1.9 mg.We detail an experimentally simple approach for centering a beam of light to the axis of a rotating surface. This technique can be understood as a rotating analog to knife-edge profilometry, a common experimental technique wherein the intensity (or power) of various masked portions of a beam is used to ascertain the transverse intensity profile of the beam. Instead of collecting the light transmitted through a mask, we give the surface a variable reflectivity (such as with a strip of retro-reflective tape) and sample the light scattered from the surface as it rotates. We co-align the transverse position (not the tilt) of the axis of rotation and the beam centroid by minimizing the modulation amplitude of this scattered light. In a controlled experiment, we compare the centroid found using this approach to the centroid found using the canonical knife-edge approach in two directions.  https://www.selleckchem.com/products/selonsertib-gs-4997.html  We find our results to be accurate to within the uncertainty of the benchmark measurement, ±0.03 mm (±2.9% of the beam waist). Using simulations that mimic the experiments, we estimate that the uncertainty of the technique is much smaller than that of the benchmark measurement, ±0.01 mm (±1% of the beam waist), limited here by the size of the components used in these experiments. We expect this centering technique to find applications in experimental and industrial fabrication and processing settings where alignment involving rotating surfaces is critical.Optical pump-probe spectroscopy is a powerful tool to directly probe the carrier dynamics in materials down to sub-femtosecond resolution. To perform such measurements, while keeping the pump induced perturbation to the sample as small as possible, it is essential to have a detection scheme with a high signal to noise ratio. Achieving such a high signal to noise ratio is easy with phase sensitive detection based on a lock-in-amplifier when a high repetition rate laser is used as the optical pulse source. However, such a lock-in-amplifier based method does not work well when a low repetition rate laser is used for the measurement. In this article, a sensitive detection scheme, which combines the advantages of a boxcar that rejects noise in time domain and a lock-in-amplifier that isolates the signal in the frequency domain for performing pump-probe measurements using a low-repetition rate laser system, is proposed and experimentally demonstrated. A theoretical model to explain the process of signal detection and a method to reduce the pulse to pulse energy fluctuation in probe pulses is presented. By performing pump-probe measurements at various detection conditions, the optimum condition required for obtaining the transient absorption signal with low noise is presented. The reported technique is not limited to pump-probe measurements and can be easily modified to suit for other sensitive measurements at low repetition rates.We report on four electron paramagnetic resonance sensors for dynamic magnetic field measurements at 36 mT, 100 mT, 360 mT, and 710 mT. The sensors are based on grounded co-planar microwave resonators operating at about 1 GHz and 3 GHz, realized using printed circuit board technology, and on single-chip integrated microwave oscillators operating at about 10 GHz and 20 GHz, realized using complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor technology. The sensors are designed to mark precisely the moment when a time-dependent magnetic field attains a specific value. The trigger from the sensor can be used to preset the output of real-time magnetic field measurement systems, called "B-trains," which are in operation at several large synchrotron installations, including five of the CERN's particle accelerators. We discuss in detail the performance achieved, in particular, the magnetic field resolution that is in the range of 0.1 nT/Hz1/2-6 nT/Hz1/2. The effects of material anisotropy and temperature are also discussed. Finally, we present a detailed characterization of the sensors with field ramps as fast as 5 T/s and field gradients as strong as 12 T/m.