Acronyms

a- SiO2  … Amorphous silicon dioxide
CDW … Coupled double well
c- SiO2  … Crystalline silicon dioxide
DFT … Density functional theory
ESR … Electron spin resonance
ETM … Elastic tunneling model
H  … Hydrogen
HDL … Harry-Diamond-Laboratories
LSM … Level shift model
MPFAT … Multiphonon field assisted tunneling
MOSFET … Metal oxide semiconductor field effect transistor
MSM … Measure-stress-measure
NBTI … Negative bias temperature instability
NMP … Nonradiative multi-phonon (process)
O  … Oxygen
OTF … On-the-fly
RD … Reaction diffusion
RDD … Reaction dispersive diffusion
RTN … Random telegraph noise
Si  … Silicon
SiO2  … Silicon dioxide
SiON  … Silicon Oxynitride
SRH … Shockley-Read-Hall
TDDS … Time-dependent defect spectroscopy
TSM … Two stage model
TWM … Triple well model
WKB … Wenzel-Kramers-Brillouin