English for Specific Purposes

Electronic Engineering 133

 

 

UNIT 2. Nanoelectronics

 

amplification (n)

 

chipset (n)

 

circuitry (n)

 

conduct (v)

 

density (n)

 

detect (v)

 

downside (n)

 

embed (v)

 

emit (v)

 

enable (v)

 

feature (n)

 

Incandescent (adj)

 

flexible (adj)

 

junction (n)

 

leading-edge (n)

 

life-span (n)

 

light-emitting diode (n)

 

lithography (n)

 

nanoscale (adj)

 

nanotechnology (n)

 

nanotube (n)

 

one-dimensional (adj)

 

ultradense (adj)

 

improvement (n)

 

pacemaker (n)

 

pattern (n)

 

performance (n)

 

portable (adj)

 

scale (n)

 

semiconductor (n)

 

solar cell (n)

 

span (v)

 

store (v)

 

synthesize (v)

 

waste (v)

 

English for Specific Purposes

134 Electronic Engineering

 

 

UNIT 3. Optical electronics

 

absorb (v)

 

agitate (v)

 

arbitrary (adj)

 

attenuation (n)

 

audiodize (v)

 

bound (n)

 

cladding (n)

 

clarify (v)

 

concentrate (v)

 

conduit (n)

 

convert (v)

 

core (n)

 

deployment (n)

 

detect (v)

 

dispersion (n)

 

emit (v)

 

fiber (n)

 

illuminate (v)

 

infrared (adj)

 

internal (adj)

 

irradiate (v)

 

lens (n)

 

light emitting diode (n)

 

magnify (v)

 

matter (n)

 

metamaterial (n)

 

particle (n)

 

photodetector (n)

 

polarize (v)

 

propagate (v)

 

quantize (v)

 

reflective (adj)

 

repeater (n)

 

resonate (v)

 

rigid (adj)

 

simplify (v)

 

solar cell (n)

 

steep (adj)

 

stimulate (v)

 

stretchy (n)

 

transducer (n)

 

ultraviolent (adj)