| P |
Phosphorous |
| P-GILD |
Projection Gas Immersion Laser Doping |
| P/E |
Program/erase |
| P/T |
Precision-tolerance |
| Pa |
Protactinium |
| Pa |
Pascals |
| PA-FTIR |
Photoacoustic Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy |
| PAB |
Post-apply Bake |
| PAC |
Photoactive Compound |
| PACVD |
Plasma-assisted Chemical Vapor Deposition |
| PAG |
Photoacid Generator |
| PAG |
Program Advisory Group |
| PAL |
Process Automation Language |
| PAL |
Programmable Array Logic |
| PAL |
Process Asset Library |
| PALS |
Positron Annihilation Lifetime Spectroscopy |
| PAM |
Process Application Module |
| PAS |
Photoacoustic Spectroscopy |
| PAS |
Project Assessment Survey |
| PAT |
Process Action Team |
| PAWS |
Portable Acoustic Wave Sensor |
| Pb |
Lead |
| PBET |
Performance-Based Equipment Training |
| PBGA |
Plastic Ball Grid Array |
| PBL |
Poly-buffered LOCOS |
| PBN |
Plasma Bridge Neutralizer |
| PBS |
Photon Backscattering |
| PBTI |
Positive Bias Temperature Instability |
| PC |
Personal Computer |
| PC |
Programmable Controller |
| PC |
Process Control |
| PC |
Photoconductivity |
| PCA |
Principal Component Analysis |
| PCAD |
Packaging Computer-aided Design |
| PCB |
Printed Circuit Board |
| PCD |
Photochemical Darkening |
| PCHP |
Pre-coat Hotplate |
| PCM |
Pulse-code Modulation |
| PCM |
Process Control Monitor |
| PCMP |
Post Chemical-mechanical Polishing |
| PCMS |
Plasma Chemistry Monte-Carlo Simulation |
| PCO |
Photocatalytic Oxidation |
| PCOMP |
Pressure Compensation |
| PCR |
Principle Component Regression |
| PCR |
Probe Card Repair |
| PCS |
Production Cost Savings |
| PCSA |
Polarizer-compensator Sample Analyzer |
| PCT |
Process Change Teams |
| PCW |
Process Cooling Water |
| PCWR |
Process Cooling Water Returns |
| Pd |
Palladium |
| PDA |
Personal Digital Assistant |
| PDA |
Post-deposition Anneal |
| PDC |
Passive Data Collection |
| PDF |
Portable Document Format |
| PDF |
Process Design Failure |
| PDL |
Plastics Design Library |
| PDS |
Photothermal Displacement Spectroscopy |
| PDSA |
Peroxydisulfuric Acid |
| PDU |
Protocol Data Unit |
| PDVC |
Phase-dependent Voltage Contrast |
| PEB |
Post-exposure Bake |
| PEC |
Proximity Effect Correction |
| PEC |
Protective Electrostatic Chuck Cover |
| PECVD |
Plasma-enhanced Chemical Vapor Deposition |
| PED |
Post-exposure Delay |
| PEDS |
Plasma-enhanced Deposition System |
| PEEK |
Polyetheretherkeytone |
| PEELS |
Parallel Electron Energy Loss Spectrometry |
| PEEM |
Photo-electron Emission Microscope |
| PEF |
Plasma-enhanced Floodgun |
| PEL |
Permissible Exposure Level (limit) |
| PERT |
Program Evaluation Review Technique |
| PES |
Photoelectron Spectroscopy |
| PET |
Post-etch Treatment |
| PETEOS |
Plasma-enhanced Tetraethylosilicate |
| PFA |
Perfluoroalkoxy |
| PFC |
Perfluorocompound |
| PFC |
Perfluorocarbon |
| PFOS |
Perfluorooctane Sulfonate |
| PFPE |
Perfluorinated Polyether |
| PFR |
Plug-flow Reactor |
| PFS |
Plasma Flood System |
| PfTQ |
Partnering For Total Quality |
| PGA |
Pin Grid Array |
| PGI |
Purge Gas Inlet |
| PGV |
Person Guided Vehicle |
| PHI |
Physical Electronics Co. |
| PI |
Proportional Integral |
| PIC |
Physical Interfaces And Carriers |
| PID |
Proportional Integral Derivative |
| PID |
Process-induced Defect |
| PIII |
Plasma Immersion Ion Implantation |
| PIND |
Particle Impact Noise Detection |
| PIP |
Process-induced Particles |
| PIV |
Peak Inverse Voltage |
| PIV |
Post Indicator Valve |
| PIXE |
Photon-induced X-ray Emission |
| PLA |
Programmable Logic Array |
| PLC |
Programmable Logic Controller |
| PLC |
Product Life Cycle |
| PLCC |
Plastic Leaded Chip Carrier |
| PLDD |
P-type Lightly Doped Drain |
| PLIS |
Precision Liquid Injection System |
| PLL |
Plasma Lockload |
| PLL |
Phase-locked Loop |
| PLS |
Partial Least Squares |
| PLS |
Projection Of Latent Structures |
| PLY |
Photolimited Yield |
| Pm |
Promethium |
| PM |
Particle Monitor |
| PM |
Preventive Maintenance |
| PM |
Process Module |
| PMA |
Post-metal Anneal |
| PMC |
Process Module Controller |
| PMCC |
Pensky-Martens Closed Cup |
| PMI |
Phase Measuring Interferometer |
| PMM |
Phase Measuring Microscope |
| PMMA |
Polymethyl Methacrylate |
| PMOS |
Positive Channel Metal-oxide Semiconductor |
| PMS |
Particle Measuring System |
| PMT |
Photomultiplier Tube |
| PMTF |
Product Management Task Force |
| PNL |
Pulsed Nucleation Layer |
| PNNL |
Pacific Northwest National Laboratories (Battelle) |
| PNWD |
Pacific Northwest Division |
| Po |
Polonium |
| PO |
Projection Optics |
| POB |
Projection Optics Box |
| POCP |
Photochemical Ozone Creation Potential |
| POR |
Process Of Record |
| POSIX |
Portable Operating System Interface For Computing Environments |
| POU |
Point-of-use |
| POUCG |
Point-of-use Chemical Generation |
| PP |
Polypropylene |
| PPE |
Personal Protective Equipment |
| PPGA |
Plastic Pin Grid Array |
| PPID |
Process Program Identification |
| PPM |
Point Projection Microscope |
| PPPL |
Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory |
| PPRef |
Process Program Reference |
| PQFP |
Plastic Quad Flat Pack |
| Pr |
Praseodymium |
| PRAS |
Particle Reactor Analysis Services |
| PRAT |
Production Reliability Acceptance Test |
| PRB |
Pseudo-random Binary |
| PRBS |
Pseudo-random Binary Sequences |
| PRESS |
Prediction Error Sum Of Squares |
| PROM |
Programmable Read-only Memory |
| PRSC |
Parametric Response Surface Control |
| PRV |
Person Rail Guided Vehicle |
| PS |
Porous Silicon |
| PSAM |
Probabilistic Shape And Appearance Model |
| PSB |
Phase Shifting Blank |
| PSB |
Product Safety Bulletin |
| PSC |
Porous Silicon Capacitor |
| PSD |
Power Spectral Density |
| PSD |
Port Status Display |
| PSDA |
Pressure Decay Sorption Apparatus |
| PSDI |
Phase-shifting Diffraction Interferometer |
| PSE |
Pre-sputter Etch |
| PSG |
Phosphosilicate Glass |
| PSG |
Phosphorus Doped Silicon Glass |
| PSII |
Plasma Source Ion Implantation |
| PSL |
Polystyrene Latex |
| PSLS |
Polystyrene Latex Sphere |
| PSM |
Phase Shifting Mask |
| PSM |
Phase Shift Mask |
| PSR |
Perfectly Stirred Reactor |
| Pt |
Platinum |
| PTAB |
Project Technical Advisory Board |
| PTC |
Pre- And Post-process Treatment Chambers |
| PTFE |
Polytetrafluorethylene |
| PTFE |
Teflon |
| Pu |
Plutonium |
| PV |
Process Vacuum |
| PVA |
Polyvinylacetate |
| PVC |
Polyvinylchloride |
| PVD |
Physical Vapor Deposition |
| PVDF |
Polyvinylidene Fluoride |
| PWB |
Printed Wiring Board |
| PWP |
Particles Per Wafer Pass |