| ADS | ... | Advanced Design System |
| BCB | ... | Benzocyclobutene |
| BiCMOS | ... | Bipolar Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor |
| BJT | ... | Bipolar Junction Transistor |
| CAD | ... | Computer Aided Design |
| CDMA | ... | Code Division Multiple Access |
| CMOS | ... | Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor |
| CW | ... | Continuous wave |
| DD | ... | Drift-Diffusion |
| DHBT | ... | Double Heterostructure Bipolar Transistor |
| DOS | ... | Density of States |
| DRAM | ... | Dynamic Random Access Memory |
| ECL | ... | Emitter Coupled Logic |
| ET | ... | Energy Transport |
| FET | ... | Field Effect Transistor |
| HBT | ... | Heterojunction Bipolar Transistor |
| HEMT | ... | High Electron Mobility Transistor |
| HFET | ... | Heterostructure Field Effect Transistor |
| IC | ... | Integrated Circuit |
| II | ... | Impact Ionization |
| ITRS | ... | International Technology Roadmap for Semiconductors |
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... | Kaiser-Meyer-Olkin |
| KST | ... | K-space transfer |
| LDMOS | ... | Lateral Diffused Metal Oxide Semiconductor |
| LMDS | ... | Local Multipoint Distribution Services |
| LNA | ... | Low Noise Amplifier |
| MAG | ... | Maximum Available Gain |
| MBE | ... | Molecular Beam Epitaxy |
| MC | ... | Monte Carlo |
| MDS | ... | Microwave Design System |
| MESFET | ... | Metal Semiconductor Field Effect Transistor |
| MMDS | ... | Multichannel Multipoint Distribution Services |
| MMIC | ... | Monolithic Microwave Integrated Circuit |
| MOCVD | ... | Metal Organic Chemical Vapor Deposition |
| MODFET | ... | Modulation Doped FET |
| MOSFET | ... | Metal Oxide Semiconductor FET |
| MOS | ... | Metal Oxide Semiconductor |
| MSG | ... | Maximum Stable Gain |
| MTA | ... | Microwave transition analyzer |
| NID | ... | Non intentionally doped |
| PHEMT | ... | Pseudomorphic HEMT |
| RF | ... | Radio Frequency |
| RST | ... | Real Space Transfer |
| SET | ... | Single Electron Transistor |
| SIMS | ... | Secondary Ion Mass Spectroscopy |
| SHBT | ... | Single Heterostructure Bipolar Transistor |
| SOI | ... | Silicon on Insulator |
| SRH | ... | Shockley-Read-Hall |
| TE | ... | Thermionic Emission |
| TFE | ... | Thermionic Field Emission |
| TWT | ... | Traveling Wave Tube |
| 3G | ... | 3 Generation Mobile Phone |
| 2.5G | ... | Intermediate Generation of Mobile Phone between 2 and 3
Generation |
| UMTS | ... | Universal Mobile Telecommunications Service |
| VCO | ... | Voltage Controlled Oscillator |