MTL prefers to list sponsors with full names instead of abbreviations. Here is a guide for your reference.
However, these acronyms do not need to be spelled out in full.
- IBM (MIG member)
- IEEE
- TSMC (MIG member)
- MARCO
- NIH
- NSF
- NASA
- DRIFT-MURI
- SRC
There are some acronyms that are accepted as commonly understood in this field, and there are many that may be unfamiliar to a general audience. Please spell out your acronyms at least once.
Some Common Technical Acronyms
| Acronym | Full Name |
|---|---|
| ADC | Analog-to-Digital Converters |
| AFE | Analog-front-end |
| ALD | Atomic layer deposition |
| CMP | Chemical mechanical polishing |
| CMOS | Complementary metal–oxide–semiconductor |
| CNT | Carbon Nanotubes |
| DRIE | Deep-reactive ion etching |
| FET | Field-effect transistor |
| MOSFET | Metal–oxide–semiconductor field-effect transistor |
U.S. Government Agency Acronyms
| Acronym | Full Name |
|---|---|
| AFOSR | U.S. Air Force Office of Scientific Research |
| AFRL | U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory |
| ARL | U.S. Army Research Laboratory |
| ARL-CDQI | U.S. Army Research Laboratory Center for Distributed Quantum Information |
| ARPA-E | Advanced Research Projects Agency – Energy (DOE) |
| DARPA | Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency |
| YFA | DARPA Young Faculty Award DoD, U.S. Department of Defense |
| DOE | Department of Energy |
| EFRC | U.S. Department of Energy: Energy Frontier Research Center (Center for Excitonics) |
| DTRA | U.S. DoD Defense Threat Reduction Agency |
| IARPA | Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity |
| NASA | National Aeronautics and Space Administration |
| NDSEG | National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship |
| NIH | National Institutes of Health |
| NCI | National Cancer Institute |
| NSF | National Science Foundation |
| CIQM | NSF Center for Integrated Quantum Materials |
| CSNE | NSF Center for Sensorimotor Neural Engineering |
| E3S | NSF Center for Energy Efficient Electronics Science |
| GRFP | NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program |
| MRSEC | NSF Materials Research Science and Engineering Centers |
| NEEDS | NSF Nano-Engineered Electronic Device Simulation Node |
| ONR | Office of Naval Research |
| DRIFT-MURI | Design-for-Reliability Initiative for Future Technologies – Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative |
MIT-Related Acronyms
| Acronym | Full Name |
|---|---|
| BE | Department of Biological Engineering |
| Biology | Department of Biology |
| ChemE | Department of Chemical Engineering |
| CICS | Center for Integrated Circuits and Systems |
| CMSE | Center for Materials Science and Engineering |
| CMSE/IRG | CMSE Interdisciplinary Research Groups |
| DMSE | Department of Materials Science & Engineering |
| EECS | Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science |
| IMES | Institute for Medical Engineering and Science |
| JWAFS | MIT Abdul Latif Jameel World Water and Food Security Lab |
| KI | David H. Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research |
| LL | Lincoln Laboratory |
| MAS | Program in Media Arts & Sciences |
| MechE | Department of Mechanical Engineering |
| MEDRC | Medical Electronic Device Realization Center |
| MIG | Microsystems Industrial Group |
| MIT-CG | MIT/MTL Center for Graphene Devices and 2D Systems |
| MITEI | MIT Energy Initiative |
| MIT-GaN | MIT/MTL Gallium Nitride (GaN) Energy Initiative |
| MISTI | MIT International Science and Technology Initiatives |
| MIT-SUTD | MIT-Singapore University of Technology and Design Collaboration Office |
| MIT Skoltech | MIT Skoltech Initiative |
| MTL | Microsystems Technology Laboratories |
| NSE | Department of Nuclear Science & Engineering |
| Physics | Department of Physics |
| S3TEC | Solid State Thermal Energy Conversion Center |
| Sloan | Sloan School of Management |
| SMA | Singapore-MIT Alliance |
| SMART | Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology Center |
| SMART-LEES | SMART Low Energy Electronic Systems Center |
| SUTD-MIT | MIT-Singapore University of Technology and Design Collaboration Office |
| TPP | Technology and Policy Program |
Other Acronyms
| Acronym | Full Name |
|---|---|
| ACE4S | ATIC-SRC Center of Excellence for Energy Efficient Electronics Systems |
| CONACyT | Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología (Mexico) |
| IEEE | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers |
| IHP Germany | Innovations for High Performance Microelectronics Germany |
| ISSCC | International Solid-State Circuits Conference (IEEE) |
| LEAST | SRC STARnet Center for Low Energy Systems Technology |
| MASDAR | Masdar Institute of Science and Technology |
| NSRC | Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (Canada) |
| NTU | Nanyang Technological University |
| NUS | National University of Singapore |
| NYSCF | The New York Stem Cell Foundation |
| SRC | Semiconductor Research Corporation |
| LEAST | SRC STARnet Center for Low Energy Systems Technology |
| MARCO | Microelectronics Advanced Research Corporation |
| TSMC | Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company |