title: Fast capacitive probe for electromagnetic pulse diagnostic.
abstract: In this work, we report the study and the development of a capacitive probe which is suitable for getting fast and high voltage/current measurements. Due to the fact that fast pulses propagate generally in coaxial structures, the probe realized in this work was a capacitive divider with the divider electrode properly designed to assure the same characteristic impedance of the coaxial structure and the recombination time of the split signals during the propagation. It was a folded cylindrical ring of 1.4 cm long and 0.8 cm thick, which introduce a theoretical delay time of about 100 ps. Analyzing the behavior of the probe closed on 520 Omega, the voltage amplification resulted to be of (3.6+/-0.1) x 10(-4) and, as a consequence, the current attenuation factor of 56+/-1 AV. The response rise time was less than 320 ps, which was limited by oscilloscope bandwave. The capacitor probe can operate voltage measurements of the order of 100 kV.
authors.affiliation: Laboratorio di Elettronica Applicata e Strumentazione (LEAS), INFN sezione di Lecce, Department of Physics, University of Salento, Via Provinciale Lecce-Monteroni, Lecce, Italy.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Lorusso
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Nassisi
authors.forename: M V
authors.initials: MV
authors.lastname: Siciliano