| AC | ... | alternating current |
| ACCUFET | ... | accumulation channel field-effect transistor |
| BFOM | ... | Baliga figure of merit |
| BGN | ... | band gap narrowing |
| BHFFOM | ... | Baliga high-frequency figure of merit |
| BJT | ... | bipolar junction transistor |
| BTE | ... | Boltzmann's transport equation |
| CV | ... | capacitance voltage |
| CVD | ... | chemical vapour deposition |
| CW | ... | continuous wave |
| DC | ... | direct current |
| DD | ... | drift-diffusion |
| DMOSFET | ... | double-diffused metal-oxide semiconductor field-effect transistor |
| ECR | ... | electron cyclotron resonance |
| FET | ... | field-effect transistor |
| FOM | ... | figure of merit |
| GTO | ... | gate turn-off |
| HD | ... | hydrodynamic |
| HBT | ... | hetrojunction bipolar transistor |
| ICP | ... | inductively coupled plasama |
| IMPATT | ... | impact ionization avalanche transit-time |
| IV | ... | current voltage |
| JBS | ... | junction barrier Schottky |
| JFET | ... | junction field-effect transistor |
| JFOM | ... | Johnson figure of merit |
| JTE | ... | junction termination extension |
| KFOM | ... | Keye figure of merit |
| LED | ... | light emitting diode |
| MAG | ... | maximum available gain |
| MC | ... | Monte Carlo |
| MEMS | ... | microelectromechanical systems |
| MESFET | ... | metal-semiconductor field-effect transistor |
| MODFET | ... | modulation doped field-effect transistor |
| MOS | ... | metal-oxide semiconductor |
| MOSFET | ... | metal-oxide semiconductor field-effect transistor |
| MPS | ... | merged PiN Schottky |
| MSG | ... | maximum stable gain |
| PAE | ... | power added efficiency |
| PiN | ... | positive-intrinsic-negative |
| RIE | ... | reactive ion eaching |
| RF | ... | radio frequency |
| RTE | ... | resestive termination extension |
| SAI-SIT | ... | self-aligned and ion implanted static induction transistor |
| SBD | ... | Schottky barrier diode |
| SEMOSFET | ... | static channel expansion metal-oxide semiconductor FET |
| SIT | ... | static induction transistor |
| SIAFET | ... | static induction injected accumulated field-effect transistor |
| SiC | ... | silicon carbide |
| SRH | ... | Shockley-Read-Hall |
| TCAD | ... | technology computer aided design |
| TEC | ... | thermal expansion coefficient |
| UV | ... | ultraviolet |
| UMOSFET | ... | U-shape metal-oxide semiconductor field-effect transistor |
| VJFET | ... | vertical junction field-effect transistor |
| VLSI | ... | very large scale integration |