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A Picosecond Pulsed Electric Field Strength Measuring Transducer

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A strip-line picosecond pulsed electric field strength measuring transducer is developed. The transducer can be used for the ultrashort pulsed probing of radio-absorbing materials to determine their characteristics in a frequency band up to 30–40 GHz.

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Translated from Izmeritel’naya Tekhnika, No. 2, pp. 62–64, February, 2014.

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Sakharov, K.Y., Turkin, V.A., Mikheev, O.V. et al. A Picosecond Pulsed Electric Field Strength Measuring Transducer. Meas Tech 57, 201–205 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11018-014-0431-2

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