Abbreviations/Acronyms

thermoelectric; transverse electric

transversely excited atmosphere

transferred electron device

transmission electron microscope; transverse electromagnetic

transferred electron oscillator

transparent electrophotographic

total external reflectance

automatic test and evaluation

built-in test equipment

Basic Research in Industrial Technology for Europe

charge-transfer efficiency; coefficient of thermal expansion

local thermodynamic equivalent

modulated transmission ellipsometry

radiative transfer equation

Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers

scanning transmission electron microscope

stimulated emission depletion

vertical to surface transmission electrophotonic device

compass/attitude heading and reference system

Förster resonance energy transfer

heat-assisted detection and ranging

highly accelerated life test

megabyte — The megabyte (also expressed as Mbyte) is equivalent to one million (106) of the standard unit for digital information storage in computing which is the byte.

photonic integrated circuit

absolute (kelvin degrees), absorption, acoustic, alpha particle, analog, anode, ampere, amplitude, area, atomic, atomic mass, Helmholtz free energy, mass number, nucleon number

analog to analog, anti-aliasing (AA optical filter e.g. low pass filter), approximate absolute temperature, atomic absorption

The ABg model or Harvey-Shack is a method of describing bidirectional scattering from isotropic or polished surfaces.

absolute value

alternating current

active-cavity radiometer

advanced communication technology satellite

analog-to-digital converter; allyl diglycol carbonate

ammonium dihydrogen phosphate, adaptive Doppler processing

adaptive differential pulse code modulation; varies the binary step interval for the required bandwidth for a given signal-to-noise ratio.

automated guided vehicle

attitude heading and reference system

artificial intelligence

Automated Imaging Association

American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics

American Institute of Chemical Engineers

airborne intelligent display; area imaging device

American Institute of Electrical Engineers

American Institute of Physics

automatic image retrieval system

acoustic imaging system

adaptive learning image analysis system

Association Nationale de la Recherche Technique

American National Standards Institute

aviator's night vision imaging system

area of interest; automatic optical inspection