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Strictly speaking, a semiconductor is a material with an electrical conductivity between that of an insulator and that of a conductor. Semiconductors can be single elements such as silicon or germanium or compounds such as gallium arsenide or indium phosphide. In day to day usage, however, the term "semiconductor" more frequently refers to the components manufactured from semiconductor materials.
- K
Kelvin
- Ka
Acid dissociation constant
- KA
KiloAmpere (1000A)
- Kaizen
A Japanese term with the literal meaning of "improvement". The concept implies a continuous effort (therefore "continuous improvement") involving all company functions at all levels. The title of the book written by Masaaki Imai that we are using as our guide to TQM.
- Kanban
Kanban (system developed by Taiichi Ohno when he was vice-president in Toyota) is a card designed to prevent overproduction and ensures that necessary parts are drawn from process to process, in reverse order (kanban in Japanese means "visible record"). The kanban procedure is a replenishment system designed to control production quantities in every process. Characteristics of kanban are that the following process takes only what is needed. The preceding process produces only enough parts to replace those withdrawn by the following process
- Kb
Base dissociation constant
- KBPS
KiloBits PerSecond
- Kcal
Kilocalorie
- Kd
Soil sorption coefficient
- KEV
Kilo Electron Volts
- Kg
Kilogram
- KHz
Kilo Hertz (1000 cycles per second)
- Kilo
A prefix meaning a multiple of 1 000 (xl 03).
- Kilobyte (Kbyte)
1,024 bytes (1,024 being one K, or two to the 10th power); often used as a measure of memory capacity.
- Kirkop
Town on the island of Malta. Location of ST assembly plant.
- Kista
Small town on the outskirts of Stockholm in Sweden. Location of ST's main sales office in Scandinavia.
- Km
Kilometre
- Koc
Organic carbon partition coefficient
- Kow
Octanol-water partition coefficient
- KPP
Key Product Program
- Ks
Solubility product constant
- KS
Knoweldge Sharing
- KVA
Kilo Volt Amperes
- KTS
Key Telephone Systems
- kW
Kilowatt
- kWh
Kilowatt-hour
- Kyoto Protocol
Established in December 1997 recognizes the need to take further actions to stabilize six species of greenhouse gases (CO2, CH4, N2O, HFCs, PFCs, SF6) in order to more effectively address global climate change.
- KYRO II
ST's second generation of PC Graphics controllers based on Imagination Technologies' PowerVR(TM) architecture.
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