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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.
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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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