| Acronym | Meaning |
| HEV | Hybrid Electric Vehicle |
| GLOSS | Global Sea Level Observing System (of IOC) |
| SRPL | Spatially Resolved Photoluminescence |
| OASLM | Optically Addressed Spatial Light Modulator |
| COC | Cyclic Olefin Copolymers |
| MP2 | Moeller-Plesset Second-order Perturbation Theory |
| ATQW | Asymmetric Triple Quantum Well Structure |
| LEFI | Local Electric Field Instrument |
| DSIMS | Dynamic Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry |
| PSCA | Periodic Small-cluster Approach (a Many-body Technique In Electronic-structure Calcns.) |