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E2V - Electronics terms Category: Electronics and Engineering > Abbreviations Date & country: 15/12/2007, UK Words: 100

WFC3
Wide Field Camera 3

XRT
X-Ray Telescope

VI
Volts/AMP

VOx
Vanadium Oxide

UV
Ultra Violet

VCO
Voltage Controlled Oscillators

TWT
Travelling Wave Tube

TWTA
Travelling Wave Tube Amplifiers

UHF
Ultra High Frequency

USB
Universal Serial Bus

TE
Thermo Electric

TIC
Thermal Imaging Camera

TR
Transmit/receive

SOT
Solar Optical Telescope

STEREO
Solar TErrestrial RElations Observatory

SW
Short Wave

SXI
Solar X-Ray Imager

SMEI
Solar Mass Ejection Imager

SNG
Satellite News Gathering

SCBA
Self-Contained Breathing Apparatus

SAS
Societe par Actions Simplifiee (An SAS is a simplified SA. It is a form of company which is more appropriate to a sales office/subsidiary requiring less statuatory formalities)

RRV
Rate of Rise of Voltage

RWR
Radar Warning Receiver

SA
Societe Anonyme

RF
Radio Frequency

RGS
Reflection Grating Spectrometer

RDSU
Radio Distress Signalling Unit

REDS
Radio Evacuation Distress System

PRUN
Photo Response Non-Uniformity

QE
Quantum Efficiencies

PFN
Pulse Forming Network

PROBA
Project On Board Autonomy

OMI
Ozone Monitoring Instrument

OMPS
Ozone Monitoring and Profiling Suite

PCB
Printed Circuit Board

OEM
Original Equipment Manufacturer

OM
Optical Monitor

NFTI
Naval Firefighters Thermal Imager

ns
nano second

NATO
North Atlantic Treaty Organisation

NDIR
Non-Dispersive Infrared

MPP
Multi Phase Pinned

MRI
Magnetic Resonance Imaging

NASA
National Aeronautics and Space Administration

mm-wave
millimeter wave

MOSFET
Metal Oxide Semiconductor Field Effect Transistor

MEDL
Marconi Electronic Devices Limited

MERIS
MEdium Resolution Imaging Spectrometer

MDF
Medium Density Fibreboard

MEA
Microwave Endometrial Ablation

LNA
Low-Noise Amplifiers

LWIR
Long Wavelength Infra Red

IOT
Inductive Output Tubes

LCD
Liquid Crystal Display

LEL
Lower Explosive Limit

HV
High Voltage

IMO
Inverted Mode

GOMOS
Global Ozone Monitoring by Occultation of Stars

HEP
High Energy Physics

GaN
Gallium Nitride

GEC
General Electric Company

ESCIOT
Energy Saving Collector Inductive Output Tube

EW
Early Warning

ESAU
Electronic Safety and Arming Units

ESC
Energy Saving Collector

EPIC
European Photos Imaging Camera

EPSRC
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council

ESA
European Space Agency

EFI
Exploding Foil Initiations

EIS
Extreme Ultraviolet Imaging Spectrometer

EMP
Electric Magnetic Pulse

EEV
English Electric Valve Ltd

Ef
Electric Field

ECU
Entry Control Unit

EDM
Electro-discharge Machining

DSNG
Digital Satellite News Gathering

ECCM
Electric Counter Counter Measures

ECM
Electronic Counter Measures

DCIXS
Demonstration Compact Imaging X-Ray Spectrometer

di-at
rate of change of current

db
decibel

DBS
Direct Broadcast by Satellite

DC
Direct Current

COROT
Convection and Rotation

CRT
Cathode Ray Tube

CW
Continuous Wave

CHRIS
Compact High Resolution Imaging Spectrometer

CNC
Computer Numeric Control

CCD
Charge Coupled Device

CCTWT
Coupled-Cavity Travelling Wave Tube

BITE
Built-In Test Equipment

BST
Barium Strontium Titanate

ASi
Amorphous Silicon

Be
Magnetic Field

AO
Adaptive Optics

AFC
Automatic Frequency Control

AIMO
Advanced Inverted Mode

AINiCo
Magnetic material - Aluminium/Nickel/Cobalt

ACATS
Advisors Committee on Advanced Television Service

ACC
Adaptive Cruise Control