| Acronym | Meaning |
| GDME | Glycol Dimethyl Ether |
| WINDII | Wind Imaging Interferometer |
| ANN | Artificial Neural Network |
| NIPALS | Nonlinear Iterative Partial Least Squares |
| GMI | Giant Magnetoimpedance |
| HWCVD | Hot Wire Chemical Vapor Deposition |
| CHW | Coherent Hole Wave (quantum Excitations In Solids) |
| RS | Rayleigh Schroedinger (perturbation Theory) |
| GCG | Genetics Computer Group |
| SSMBE | Solid Source Molecular Beam Epitaxy |