| Acronym | Meaning |
| IBAE | Ion Beam Assisted Etching |
| CMO | Complex Molecular Orbital Method |
| SOS | Surfaces Of Section Method (semiclassical Calcn. Of Eigenvalues) |
| DZP | (double Zeta)-polarization Contracted Gaussian Basis Set |
| TOPO | Trioctylphosphine Oxide |
| RSF | Radial Structure Function |
| BLS | Brillouin Light Scattering |
| EMSA | Electrophoretic Mobility Shift Assay |
| FIDA | Fluorescence Intensity Distribution Analysis |
| VASS | Variable Angle Sampling Spinning |