Alphabetic Listing of Acronyms

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A

ADC - Analog to Digital Converter

ADPCM - Adaptive Differential Pulse Code Modulation

ADSL - Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line

ADTV - Advanced Definition TV

Al₂O₃ - Aluminium Oxide (alumina or sapphire)

ALE - Atomic Layer Epitaxy

AlGaAs - Aluminium Gallium Arsenide

AM - Amplitude Modulation

AMLCD - Active Matrix LCD

AMPS - Advanced Mobile Phone System

APD - Avalanche Photo Diode

ARC - Anti-Reflection Coating

ARPA - Advanced Research Project Agency

AsH₃ - Arsine

ASIC - Application Specific IC

ASP - Average Selling Price

ASSIC - Application Specific Standard IC

ASSMBE - All Solid Source MBE

ATM - Asynchronous Transfer Mode

B

B₂O₃ - Boric Oxide

BMBF - German Federal Ministry of Education, Science, Research & Technology (transl)

BE - Band Edge

BG - Band Gap

BGA - Bump (or Ball) Grid Array

BGE - Band Gap Engineering

BMDO - Ballistic Missile Defense Organisation

BST - Barium Strontium Titanate

BTS - Base Transceiver Systems

C

CAIBE - Chemically-Assisted Ion Beam Etching

CB - Conduction Band

CBE - Chemical Beam Epitaxy

CCD - Charge Coupled Device

CD - Compact Disk

cd - Candela (unit of brightness)

CDMA - Code Division Multiple Access

CDROM - Compact Disk Read Only Memory

CdS - Cadmium Sulphide

CdSe - Cadmium Selenide

CGBA - Ceramic Ball Grid Array

CIS - Copper Indium Selenide

CMP - Chemo Mechanical Polishing

CMT - Cadmium Mercury Telluride

COB - Chip On Board

CODEC - Compression/decompression

COFDM - Coded Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplex

CPU - Central Processing Unit

CRT - Cathode Ray Tube

CSIC - Customer Specific Integrated Circuit

CVD - Chemical Vapour Deposition

CW - Continuous Wave

Cz - Czochralski

CZT - Cadmium Zinc Telluride

D

DAC Digital to Analog Converter

DAS Digital Audio System

DBR Distributed Bragg Reflector

DBS Direct Broadcast Satellite

DC Dielectric Constant

DD Dislocation Density

DECT Digital Enhanced Cordless Telephone

Demux Demultiplexer

DFB Distributed FeedBack

DGF Dynamic Gradient Freeze

DHBT Double Heterostructure Bipolar Transistor

DIL Dual-In-Line

DIP Dual-In-Line Package

DLC Diamond-Like Carbon

DLD Dark Line Defects

DLNC Diamond-Like Nano-Composites

DLTS Deep Level Transient Spectroscopy

DMD Digital Micromirror Device

DPST Double Pole, Single Throw (switch)

DPSSL Diode-Pumped Solid State Lasers

DRAM Dynamic Random Access Memory

DS Double Sided (floppy disk)

DSP Digital Signal Processor

DSVD Digital Simultaneous Voice and Data

DSSS Direct Sequence Spread Spectrum

DTTV Digital Terrestrial TV

DUV Deep UV

DVD Digital Video Disk

DWDM Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexer

E

EAM Electro-Absorption Modulator

EB Electron Beam

EBIC Electron Beam Injection Current

EBP Electron Beam Pumping

ECR Electron Cyclotron Resonance

EDA Electronic Design Automation

EDFA Erbium-Doped Fibre Amplifier

EDO Extended Data Out

EEL Edge Emitting Laser

EELS Electron Energy Loss Spectroscopy

EHP Electron-Hole Plasma

ELD Electro-Luminescent Display

ELOG Epitaxially Laterally Overgrown Gallium (nitride on-sapphire)

EM ElectroMagnetic

EMAS European Eco-Management and Audit Scheme

EMC Electromagnetic Compatibility

EMILM Electro-absorbtive Modulated Isolated Laser Module

EMP ElectroMagnetic Pulse

EOC Elastic Optic Coefficient

EPD Etch Pit Density

EPR Electron Paramagnetic Resonance

ERA Electrically Reconfigurable Arrays

ESPRIT European Strategic Program for R&D in Information Technology

ESR Electron Spin Resonance

ETC Enhanced Throughput Cellular

F

FE Fermi Energy

FEC Forward Error Correction

FED Field Emissive Display

FET Field Effect Transistor

FLP Fermi Level Pinning

FM Frequency Modulation

FOUP Front Opening Unified Pod

FPA Focal Plane Array

FSG Fluorinated Silicate Glass

FSK Frequency Shift Keying

FS-PAL Field Sequential Phase Alternation Line

FTTC Fibre-To-The-Curb

FTTH Fibre-To-The-Home

FWHM Full Width at Half Maximum

G

GaAs Gallium Arsenide

GaN Gallium Nitride

GaP Gallium Phosphide

Ge Germanium

GGG Gadolinium Gallium Garnet

GND Ground (voltage level)

GNOS GaN-on-Sapphire

GOI GaAs-on-Insulator

GRINSCH GRaded INdex Separate Confinement Heterostructure

GSMBE Gas Source MBE

GSM Global Systems for Mobile (communications)

GTO Gate Turn Off (thyristor)

H

HB Horizontal Bridgman

HBT Heterostructure Bipolar Transistor

HDP Hydrostatic Deformation Potential

HDSL High (bit rate) Digital Subscriber Line

HDTV High Definition TV

HEM Hole Effective Mass

HEMT High Electron Mobility Transistor

HGF Horizontal Gradient Freeze

HIC Hybrid Integrated Circuits

HIGFET Heterojunction Insulated Gate FET

HIPPI High Performance Parallel Interface

HJBT Hetero Junction Bipolar Transistor

HJFET Hetero Junction FET

HRS Holographic Readout System

HSTL High Speed Transceiver Logic

HTE High Temperature Electronics

I

IBD Ion Beam Deposition

IBE Ion Beam Etching

IBAE Ion Beam Assisted Etching

I/O Input and Output

IC Integrated Circuit

ICP Inductively-Coupled Plasma

IF Intermediate Frequency

IGBT Insulated Gate Bipolar Transistor

IGFET Insulated Gate FET

ILM Integrated Laser Modulator

I²L Integrated Injection Logic

IMD Inter-Metal Dielectric

IMS Intelligent Manufacturing System

InAs Indium Arsenide

InGaAs Indium Gallium Arsenide

InGaAsP Indium Gallium Arsenide Phosphide

InGaN Indium Gallium Nitride

InP Indium Phosphide

InSb Indium Antimonide

IO Input and Output

IP Intellectual Property

I-PAL Improved PAL

IR Infra Red

IRFPA IR Focal Plane Array

ISD Interface State Density

ISDN Integrated Service Digital Network

ISM Industrial, Scientific & Medical band

ISP Interface Strain Parameter

ISP In-System Programmability

ISSE In Situ Spectroscopic Ellipsometry

ITO Indium Tin Oxide

J

JEDEC Joint Electron Device Engineering Council

JEIDA Japan Electronic Industry Development Association

JESSI Joint European Submicron Silicon Initiative

JFET Junction FET

JPEG Joint Photographic Experts Group

K

KGD Known Good Die

Kilo Prefix 1024 or 1000

L

LASER Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation

LCD Liquid Crystal Display

LD Laser Diode

LDSD Low Dimensional Structures & Devices

LEC Liquid Encapsulated Czochralski

LED Light Emitting Diode

LEED Low Electron Energy Diffraction

LEP Light Emitting Polymer

LER Lissajous Electron Plasma

LGE Light Generation Efficiency

LIMA Laser-Induced Mass Analysis

LIU Line Interface Unit

LNA Low Noise Amplifier

LPCVD Low Pressure CVD

LPMOCVD Low Pressure MOCVD

LPD Laser Projection Display

LPE Liquid Phase Epitaxy

LSI Large Scale Integration

LTV Local Thickness Variation

LUCOLED LUminescence COnversion LED

LVDS Low Voltage Differential Signalling

LVM Localised Vibration Modes

LVT Low Voltage Technology

LWIR Long Wavelength IR

LWV Longitudinal Wave Velocity

M

MAC Multiplexed Analogue Components

MBE Molecular Beam Epitaxy

MBMS Modulated Beam Mass Spectromety

mcd millicandela

MCDL Minority Carrier Diffusion Length

MCM Multi Chip Module

MCM-C MCM-Ceramic

MCM-D MCM-Dielectric

MCM-P MCM-Plastic

MCSN Multimedia Cable Network System

MCT MOS Controlled Thyristors

MCT Mercury Cadmium Telluride (also CMT)

MCU MicroController Unit

MD Mini Disk

MDL Maximum Doping Limit

MDRAM Multibank DRAM

MEMS Micro-Electro-Mechanical Structures

MESFET Metal Semiconductor FET

MFCC Maximum Free Carrier Concentration

MFLOPS Million Floating Point Instructions Per Second

MFMIS FET Metal Ferroelectric Metal Insulator Semiconductor FET

MIDI Musical Instrument Digital Interface

MIMIC Microwave & Millimeter (wave) IC (Program)

MIPS Million Instructions Per Second

MISFET Metal Insulator Semiconductor FET

MLC Multi-Level Cell

MMIC Microwave Monolithic Integrated Circuit

MMU Memory Management Unit

mmwave Millimetre Wave

MO MetalOrganic

MODEM Modulator (and) Demodulator

MODFET MOdulation Doped FET

MOCVD Metal Organic Chemical Vapour Deposition

MOMBE Metallorganic MBE (q.v.)

MONET Multi-wavelength Optical Network

MORIE MetalOrganic Reactive Ion Etching

MOS Metal Oxide Semiconductor

MOSFET Metal Oxide Semiconductor Field Effect Transistor

MOVPE Metal Organic Vapour Phase Epitaxy

MP Melting Point

MPEG Motion Picture Experts Group

MPU MicroProcessor Unit

MPW Multi-Product Wafer

MQW Multiple Quantum Well

MR Magneto-Resistive

MSI Medium Scale Integration

MSM Metal-Semiconductor-Metal

MSS Modulated Semiconductor Structure

MST MicroSystems Technology

MUART Multiple Universal Asynchronous Receiver / Transmitter

Mux Multiplexer

N

NBE Near Band Edge

NC NanoCrystal

ND Native Defect

NIC Network Interface Cards

NLO Non-Linear Optic

NLR Non-Linear Refraction

NOB Non-biased Optical Bistable (device)

NPT Non-Punch Through

NTSC National Television System Committee

NV Non-Volatile

NVM Non-Volatile Memory

NVRAM Non-Volatile RAM

O

OAC Optical Absorption Coefficient

OAW Optically-Assisted Winchester

OEIC OptoElectronic IC

OEM Original Equipment Manufacturer

ODP Ozone Depletion Potential

OI Opto Isolator

OIM Orientation Imaging Microscopy

OLED Organic LED

OM Organometallic

OMVPE Organometallic VPE

ONR Office of Naval Research

OpAmp Operational Amplifier

OPL Optically Pumped Laser

OPSE Optically Pumped Stimulated Emission

OTPROM One Time Programmable Read Only Memory

P

PAL Programmable Array Logic

pBN Pyrolytic Boron Nitride

PCI Peripheral Component Interconnect

PECL Pseudo Emitter-Coupled Logic

PCM Pulse Code Modulation

PCMCIA PC Memory Card International Association

PCN Personal Communication and Network

PCS Personal Communications Services

PDA Personal Digital Assistant

PDIP Plastic Dual In-line Packaging

PDP Plasma Display Panel

PE PiezoElectric

PERM Pre-Embossed Rigid Magnetic

PGA Pin Grid Array

PH₃ - Phosphine

pHEMT - Pseudomorphic HEMT

PHS Personal Handy Phone

PHY Physical Layer

PICTS Photo-Induced Current Transient Spectroscopy

PIN P-type Insulator N-type

PL Photoluminescence

PLA Programmable Logic Array

PLCC Plastic Leaded Chip Carrier

PLD Programmable Logic Device

PLL Phase-Locked Loop

PLTV Percentage Local Thickness Variation

PMOS P Channel MOS

PMR Private Mobile Radio

PPRAM Parallel Processing Random Access Memory

PRML Partial Response/Maximum Likelihood

PV Photo-Voltaic

PVD Physical Vapour Deposition

Q

QAM Quadrature Amplitude Modulation

QW Quantum Well

QWR Quantum Wire

QWIR Quantum Well, Infra-Red (detector)

QWIP Quantum Well, Infra-Red Photodetector)

R

RAC Rambus ASIC Cell

Rad Hard Radiation Hardness

RAM Random Access Memory

RBSOA Reverse Bias Safe Operating Area

RF Radio Frequency

RFIC Radio Frequency Integrated Circuit

RFICP Radio Frequency ICP

RFID Radio Frequency IDentification

RGA Residual Gas Analysis

RHEED Reflection High Energy Electron Diffraction

RHET Resonant Hot-tunnelling Electron Transistor

RIBE Reaction Ion Beam Etching

RIE Reactive Ion Etching

RISC Reduced Instruction Set Computing

ROM Read Only Memory

ROS Record-On-Silicon

RTA Rapid Thermal Annealing

RTP Rapid Thermal Processing

S

SAW Surface Acoustic Wave

SBIR Small Business Innovative Research Award

SBL Scanned Beam Laminography

SC Semi-Conducting

SCALPEL Scattering with Angular Limitation in Projection Electron-beam Lithography)

SDFL Schottky Diode FET Logic

SDH Synchronous Digital Hierarchy

SDHT Selectively Doped Heterojunction Transistor

SDRAM Synchronous Dynamic Random Access Memory

SEL Surface Emitting Laser

SEM Scanning Electron Microscope

SERDES Serialization/Deserialization

SFD Stacking Fault Density

SI Semi-Insulating

SiC Silicon Carbide

SiH4 Silane

SiGe Silicon Germanium

SIMS Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry

SISFET Semiconductor-Insulator-Semiconductor FET

SL Super Lattice

SLC Surface Laminar Circuits

SLIC Standard-function Linear Integrated Circuit

SLM Spatial Light Modulator

SLPSS Semiconductor Laser Pumped Solid State (laser source)

SLS Strained Layer SL

SMD Surface Mount Device

SME Small-to-Medium Enterprise

SMID Single Instruction Multiple Data

SMIF Standard Mechanical InterFace

SMR Specialized Mobile Radio

SMT Surface Mount Technology

SOC System on (a) Chip

SOD Silicon On Diamond

SO DIMM Small Outline Dual-In-line Memory Module

SOG Spin-On Glass

SOI Silicon On Insulator

SOIC Small Outline Integrated Circuit

SONET Synchronous Optical Network

SOP Small Outline Package

SOS Silicon on Sapphire

SPGA Staggered Pin Grid Array

SPGA System Programmable Gate Array

SPI Serial-Peripheral Interface Protocol

SPLICS Special-Purpose Linear Integrated Circuits

SRAM Static Random Access Memory

SSFDC Solid-State Floppy-Disk Card

SSI Small Scale Integration

SSOP Shrink Small Outline Package

SSRAM Synchronous (cache) Static Random Access Memory

SSTL Stub Series Transceiver Logic

STI Shallow Trench Isolation

STL Schottky Transistor Logic

T

TBA Tertiary-Butyl Arsine

TBP Tertiary-Butyl Phosphine

TEC Thermo-Electric Coolers

TEGFET 2-Dimensional Electron Gas FET

TEM Transmission Electron Microscopy

TEOS TetraEthyl OrthoSilicate

TFED Thin Film Electroluminescent Display

TFR Terrain Following Radar

TFT Thin-Film Transistor

TIR Total Internal Reflection

TMA Tri-Methyl Aluminium

TMG Tri-Methyl Gallium

TSSOP Thin Shrink Small Outline Package

TTL Transistor Transistor Logic, or

TTL Through The Lens

TTV Total Thickness Variation

TWT Travelling Wave Tube

U

UBM Under Bump Metallization

UHB-LED Ultra-High Brightness LED

UHV-CVD Ultra-High Vacuum CVD

ULSI Ultra Large Scale Integrated Circuit

UMTS Universal Mobile Telecommunications Service

UPS UV Photoelectron Spectroscopy

USB Universal Serial Bus

USG Undoped Silicate Glass

USIC User-Specific Integrated Circuit

UTQFP Ultra-Thin Quad Flat-Pack

UTS Ultra-Thin Silicon

UV Ultra Violet

UV-PROM Ultra Violet Programmable Read Only Memory

V

VB Valence Band

VB Vertical Bridgman

VCO Voltage Controlled Oscillator

VCz Vapour-pressure-controlled Czochralski

VCSEL Vertical Cavity Surface-Emitting Laser

VDSL Very high bit-rate Digital Subscriber Line

VESA Video Electronics Standards Association

VFD Vacuum Fluorescent Display

VGF Vertical Gradient Freeze

VGS Video Guidance Sensor

VHSIC Very High Speed Integrated Circuit

VISC Video Instruction Set Computing

VLSI Very Large Scale Integration

VPE Vapour Phase Epitaxy

VRAM Video RAM

VSAT Very Small Aperture Terminal

VSI Virtual Socket Interface

VSPD Variable Sensitivity Photodetector

W

WAN Wide Area Network

WDM Wavelength Division Multiplex

WF₆ - tungsten hexafluoride

W/hr Wafers per Hour

WLAN Wireless Local Area Network

WSI Wafer Scale Integration

X

XMP X-ray Micro-Probe

XPS X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy

XRD X-ray Diffraction

Y

YAG Yttrium Aluminium Garnet

Z

ZnS Zinc Sulphide

ZnSe Zinc Selenide

ZnTe Zinc Telluride

ZIF Zero Insertion Force

ZPL Zero Phonon Line