| Acronym | Meaning |
| QWIP | Quantum Well IR Photodetector |
| CTE | Charge-transfer Efficiency |
| NCSCI | National Center For Standards And Certification Information |
| DWFBA | Distorted-wave First-order Born Approximation |
| DCXRD | Double Crystal X-ray Diffraction |
| PDMEE | Primary-beam Diffraction Modulated Electron Emission |
| ILTJ | Iodine-Laser Temperature Jump |
| RSCA | Relativistic Semiclassical Approximation (for At. Scattering) |
| PDF | Probability-distribution Function |
| EBM | Electron Beam Melting |