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| - Abstract. The authors report on the fabrication and electrooptic measurement of modulation-dopted field-effect transistors (MODFETs) monolithically integrated with coplanar stripline fixtures incorporating photoconductive switches. Both lattice-matched devices on InP substrates and pseudomorphic devices on GaAs substrates, as well as two different gate access structures have been characterized. In comparing two devices with identical gate access structures, one finds that the delay time of the pseudomorphic device is almost twice as long as that of the lattice-matched device. Surprisingly, the switching times (drain output risetimes) of the two devices are comparable. One also sees that the gate access structure significantly affects the switching in two lattice-matched devices: the switching times for double-gate and single-gate contact devices are 4.2 and 5.2 ps, respectively. In this case, however, no difference was seen in the delay times. These results show that, for the present devices, the switching and delay times are dominated by different mechanisms.
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