CPA - Science and Technology

Science and Technology

  • Cerebellopontine angle, a structure at the margin of the cerebellum and pons
  • Cyclophosphamide
  • Chirped pulse amplification, a technique for amplifying an ultrashort laser pulse
  • Coherent perfect absorber, a device which absorbs coherent light and converts it to some form of internal energy such as heat or electrical energy
  • Coherent potential approximation, a method, in physics, of finding the Green's function of an effective medium

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