Ok, I'm pretty sure I got it after a bit of Googling. It relates to the devision responsible for Material Productions, Sony has been labeling each of its divisions with short, easy to identify acronym(?). Here's the quote from a carbon-nanofibers abstract that lists each division. May be more to follow if I find more details; i.e., why start with AA and sequentially go up, why not use AM - Applied Materials, PP - Physical Product, etc.
Why they'd brand the front cover of the device with such a label, who's to say? I'd initially (and still think) that it's there to simply imply eReader, since that is what I had heard the device being originally called. Of course it could also be the initials of something in Japanese that has been written in romanji and stylized, since Sony is a Japanese company... maybe it's their hanko for the product?
Quote:
Title:
Carbon nano-fiber growth on the anode during hydrogen DC arc-discharge
Authors:
Kajiura, Hisashi; Huang, Houjin; Tsutsui, Shigemitsu; Murakami, Yousuke; Miyakoshi, Mitsuaki
Affiliation:
AA(Materials Laboratories, Sony Corporation) AB(Materials Laboratories, Sony Corporation) AC(Materials Laboratories, Sony Corporation) AD(Technical Solutions Center, Sony Corporation) AE(Materials Laboratories, Sony Corporation)
Publication:
American Physical Society, Annual APS March Meeting 2003, March 3-7, 2003, , abstract #C1.029
Publication Date:
03/2003
Origin:
APS
Bibliographic Code:
2003APS..MAR.C1029K
Abstract
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Source URL:
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2003APS..MAR.C1029K