| Acronym | Meaning |
| SOA | Semiconductor Optical Amplifier |
| EPA | Environmental Protection Authority (Australia) |
| SIFS | Solvent-induced Frequency Shifts |
| AQUIRE | Aquatic Information Retrieval |
| AES | American Electroplating Society |
| BPFT | Bohm-Pines-Fock-Tani (Hamiltonian In Calcns. On Plasmons) |
| CDA | Cylindrical Deflector Analyzer |
| BEKP | Backscattered Electron Kikuchi Pattern |
| CID | Charge Injection Device |
| GIAXRD | Grazing Incidence Angle X-ray Diffraction |