| Acronym | Meaning |
| SILC | Stress-induced Leakage Current |
| CHR | Conventional Hot Rolling |
| IF DRM | Inversion-free Direct Recursion Method (for Surface Electronic Structure) |
| SAR | Sequential Adiabatic Reduction |
| LBF | Local Basis Function Method (for Solid State Band Structure) |
| NAPBN | National Air Pollution Background Network |
| APIMS | Atmospheric Pressure Ionization Mass Spectrometry |
| SPHF | Spin-polarized Hartree-Fock |
| TRRS | Time-resolved Raman Spectroscopy |
| SPPS | Solid Phase Peptide Synthesis |