| Acronym | Meaning |
| EAES | Electron-excited Auger Electron Spectroscopy |
| MSMA | Murrell-Shaw-Musher-Amos Exchange Perturbation Theory |
| SIG | Special Interest Group |
| LBSF | Local Back Surface Field (solar Cells) |
| COPD | Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease |
| OFR | Oxygen Free Radical |
| BPNN | Back Propagation Neural Network |
| DFPT | Density-functional Perturbation Theory |
| AA | Atomic Absorption |
| AOP | Advanced Oxidation Processes (hydroxyl Generation) |