| Acronym | Meaning |
| HSDP | Hawaiian Scientific Drilling Project |
| APCAR | Angular Correlation Of Positron Annihilation Radiation |
| CHTS | Combinatorial High-throughput Screening |
| CEMS | Conversion Electron Moessbauer Spectroscopy |
| T-J MODEL | Heisenberg-Hubbard Model (Hamiltonian) |
| EMAP | Energy-modified Adiabatic Phase (matrix Method) |
| PNDDO | Partial Neglect Of Diatomic Differential Overlap |
| PNA | Peanut Agglutinin |
| GPT | Generalized Pseudopotential Theory |
| EAM | Electron Acoustic Microscopy |