| Acronym | Meaning |
| SCF | Single Crystal Fiber |
| SNL | Sandia National Laboratory |
| ECPSSR | Energy-loss Coulomb-repulsion Perturbed-stationary-state Relativistic Theory |
| ASRG | Analytical Spectroscopy Research Group |
| CCT | Clean Coal Technology |
| CPP | Core Polarization Potential |
| CINDAS | Center For Information And Numerical Data Analysis And Synthesis |
| HTPB | Hydroxy-terminated Polybutadiene |
| AAMOM | An Approximate Molecular Orbital Method |
| MBE | Molecular Beam Epitaxy |