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The realisation of ultrafast electronic devices implies the development of technics in which the parasitic capacitances must be suppressed. Thus, to observe picosecond switching, the switching device must be inserted in a propagation line with proper dimensions, which can be either a microstrip line or a coplanar structure line. The switch enables a quasi-instantaneous short circuit between the two parts of the transmission line. A microstrip structure has been initially used by LAWTON and SCAVENNEC [1] to develop a fast photoconductive detector, and by AUSTON [2] who first demonstrated picosecond switching and gating. We have obtained picosecond gating using a coplanar propagation line [3].
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A.R. Lawton, A. Scavennec, Electronics Letters, 11, 74 (1975).
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R. Castagné, S. Laval, R. Laval, Electronics Letters, 12, 438 (1976).
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Castagne, R., Laval, R., Laval, S., Merriaux, A. (1978). Design for Ultrafast Electrical Switching. In: Shank, C.V., Ippen, E.P., Shapiro, S.L. (eds) Picosecond Phenomena. Springer Series in Chemical Physics, vol 4. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-67099-2_35
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