| Acronym | Meaning |
| SEGS | Solar Electric Generating System |
| MTOF | Mass Time-Of-Flight |
| IBARE | Ion Beam Assisted Radical Etching |
| HCPT | Hard-core Perturbation Theory |
| DCA | Dressed-cluster Approximation (in Band-structure Calcns.) |
| ATLAS | Airborne Tunable Laser Absorption Spectrometer |
| EVA | Ethylene-vinyl Acetate Copolymer |
| CNO | Constrained Nonorthogonal Orbital (algorithm) |
| MSV | Morse-Spline-van Der Waals (interatomic Potential) |
| CP-LSDA | Car-Parrinello Local Spin Density Functional |