LOC	Lab-on-a chip
POC	Point of Care
BAW	Bulk Acoustic Wave
SAW	Surface Acoustic Wave
QCM	Quartz Crystal Microbalance
FBAR	Film Bulk Acoustic Resonator
AC	Alternating Current
EF	Electric Field
RF	Radio Frequency
TSM	Thickness Shear Mode
BVD	Butterworth-Van-Dyke
LOD	Limit of Detection
NP	Nano Particles
TCF	Temperature Coefficient of Frequency
PDMS	Polydimethylsiloxane
DRIE	Deep Reactive Ion Etching
PCR	Polymerase Chain Reaction
ELISA	Enzyme Linked Immunosorbent Assay
MIP	Molecularly Imprinted Polymers
GO	Graphene Oxide
SLG	Single Layered Graphene
DNA	Deoxyribonucleic Acid
ssDNA	Single Stranded DNA
CEA	Carcinoembryonic antigen
PSA	Prostate specific antigen
PLA	Plasmin
HIV	Human Immunodeficiency Virus
HBsAg	Hepatitis B surface antigen
HBcAg	Hepatitis B core antigen
cTnI	Cardiac Troponin I
AMI	Acute Myocardial Infarction
DA	Dopamine
IgG	Immunoglobulin G
IgE	Immunoglobulin E
Trp	Tryptophan
PHEMA	Poly (2-hydroxyethyl methacrylate)
PMMA	Poly (methyl methacrylate)
SNP	Single Nucleotide Polymorphism
SBM	Single Base Mismatch
FC	Fully Complementary
NC	Non-Complementary
EGFR	Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor
CTC	Circulating Tumor cells
WBC	White Blood cells
SDR	Strand Displacement Reaction
dsDNA	double stranded DNA
HBV	Hepatitis B Virus
HPV	Human Papilloma Virus
AIV	Avian Influenza Virus
HAU	Hemagglutinating Unit
E-Coli	Escherichia coli
CFU	Colony Forming Unit
AFM	Atomic Force Microscopy
AlN	Aluminium Nitride
ZnO	Zinc Oxide
PZT	Lead Zirconate Titanate
PVDF	Polyvinylidene fluoride
CMOS	Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor
SMR	Solidly Mounted Resonators
TE	Thickness Extensional
TS	Thickness Shear
LE	Lateral Extensional
LFE	Lateral Field Excitation
PVD	Physical Vapor Deposition
CVD	Chemical Vapor Deposition
IDT	Interdigitated Transducer
R-SAW	Rayleigh Surface Acoustic Wave
SH-SAW	Shear Horizontal Surface Acoustic Wave
FPW	Flexural Plate Wave
SH-APM	Shear Horizontal Acoustic Plate Mode
ARF	Acoustic Radiation Force
TSAW	Travelling Surface Acoustic Wave
SSAW	Standing Surface Acoustic Wave
taSSAW	tilted angle Standing Surface Acoustic Wave
DMF	Digital Microfluidics