We present experimental results and numerical calculations on the detection of picosecond electrical transients by a photoconductively gated scanning tunneling microscope. We show that the transient signal detected in the tunneling regime is coupled by the 5 fF geometric capacitance between tip and sample leading to a correlation current that is linearly proportional to the tunnel conductance.
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Groeneveld et al. (1996) studied this question.