| Acronym | Meaning |
| DBRTS | Double-barrier Resonant Tunneling Structure |
| GADD | Growth Arrest And DNA Damage |
| NIR | Near Infrared |
| DXS | Diffuse X-ray Scattering |
| PRIMA | Pattern Recognition By Independent Multicategory Analysis |
| ARAC | Acid Rain Advisory Committee |
| BHF | Broken-symmetry Hartree-Fock |
| DTDMAC | Ditallowdimethylammonium Cation [surfactant] |
| FDMR | Fluorescence Detected Magnetic Resonance |
| RBS | Rutherford Backscattering |