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Category Scope
33 Electronics and Electrical Engineering Includes development, performance, and maintainability of electrical/electronic devices and components; related test equipment; and microelectronics and integrated circuitry. For related information see also 60 Computer Operations and Hardware; and 76 Solid-State Physics. For communications equipment and devices see 32 Communications and Radar. Definition Electronics – Study and application of the motions of electrons through vacuum or gaseous, conducting, or semiconducting media. NASA Thesaurus, Washington, DC: National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
Electrical Engineering – Branch of engineering related to the design, development, and operation of electrical devices and systems. NASA Thesaurus, Washington, DC: National Aeronautics and Space Administration. NASA Interest Exhaustive Interest : Theory, development, design, testing, performance, and operations of electric components, devices, and circuitry that have direct application in aircraft, launch vehicles, space vehicles, and their components and equipment; launch, research, and testing facilities, and the electric components and equipment used in these. Selective Interest : Theory, research, development, design, testing, performance, and operation of electric equipment, components, devices, and circuitry having potential applications for aerospace use, or for use under extreme or unusual conditions or environments. Negative Interest : Research, development, design, testing, performance, and operation of components, devices, and circuitry of electronic-electrical equipment for commercial nonaerospace applications. | |
Input Subjects of Specific Interest
amplifiers audio amplifiers batteries (electrical design) bridge circuits capacitors cathode ray tubes (electrical design) charge-coupled devices chips (integrated circuits) chokes (electric, electronic) circuit simulation (integrated circuits) circuit theory converters crystals (electronic applications) dielectrics (electronic application) diodes dividers (electric) electric circuits electric filters electric motors electric power units (electrical design) electrical components electrical engineering electrical relays electromechanics electron beam devices electron tubes electronic circuits electronic components electronic packaging electronic test equipment electronics field effect transistors (FET) field programmable gate arrays filters (electric, electronic) fuses (electric) generators (electrical design) inductors (electric) insulation (electric, electronic) integrated circuits inverters Kalman filters klystrons light emitting diodes (LED) lithography (circuit fabrication) magnets (electrical, electronics application) microcircuits microelectronics microminiaturization modulators (electric, electronic devices) nanodevices (electronic) networks (circuitry) opto-acoustic electronics optoelectronics (applications) oscillators photoelectric devices photomultipliers power amplifiers power packs (electric) power supplies electric) printed circuits programmable logic devices radomes (electrical properties) rail accelerators, railguns, launchers (theory) reconfigurable hardware rectifiers regulators (voltage, current) resistors semiconductor devices servomechanisms (electrical aspects) signal generators (applications) silicon cells (electrical properties) single event transients single event upsets sneak circuit analysis solar cells (electrical design) solar state circuitry solid state devices superconductivity (applications) surface wave acoustic devices (electronic design) switches switching circuits switching theory test equipment (electrical properties) thyratrons transducers transformers transistors transmission lines traveling wave tubes triodes tunnel diodes vacuum tubes very large scale integration (VLSI) VHSIC waveguides
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