Abbreviations/Acronyms

stokes

supertwist liquid crystal display

Science & Technology Center

standard

scanning transmission electron microscope

stimulated emission depletion

scanning tunneling microscope; synchronous transfer mode

supertwisted nematic

standard temperature and pressure; standard thermal profile

stimulated thermal scattering

American Society for Testing and Materials

business EDR system technique

boresight television

constant

crystal

crystalline

direct-view storage tube

electron scanning tunneling microscope

frequency angle scanning, tracking and ranging

global horizontal and sounding technique

infrared search and track

International Society of Testing and Materials

joint surveillance target attack system

laser spot tracker

U.S. military standard. See MIL-SPEC.

National Institute of Standards and Technology

photon scanning tunneling microscope

phototransistor

single pole/single throw

US Telecommunications Association

vertical to surface transmission electrophotonic device

active-matrix liquid crystal display

compass/attitude heading and reference system

Förster resonance energy transfer

heat-assisted detection and ranging

highly accelerated life test

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

angstrom

acousto-optic

American Astronomical Society

absorbance; acrylonitrile butadiene styrene

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

attitude heading and reference system

American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics

American Institute of Chemical Engineers

American Institute of Electrical Engineers

American Institute of Physics

automatic image retrieval system

acoustic imaging system

adaptive learning image analysis system