| Acronym | Meaning |
| MC-SEA | Multichannel Static-exchange Approximation |
| SSMBE | Solid Source Molecular Beam Epitaxy |
| FRAP | Fluorescence Recovery After Photobleaching |
| MAR | Matrix Attachment Region |
| USEPA | United States Environmental Protection Agency |
| ALS | Alternating Least Squares |
| EMMA | Energy-dispersive Miniprobe Multielement Analyzer |
| VCB-CPA | Virtual Crystal Bandwidth-coherent Potential Approxn. (for Electronic-structure Calcns. On Alloys) |
| PET | Photoinduced Electron Transfer |
| GSCF | Generalized Self-consistent Field |