| AGNR |  | Armchair graphene nanoribbon |
| AGNRBN |  | Armchair graphene nanoribbon in boron nitride |
| BNSL |  | Boron-nitride-passivated armchair graphene nanoribbons superlattice |
| CNT |  | Carbon nanotube |
| cw |  | continuous-wave |
| DFT |  | Density functional theory |
| DOS |  | Density of states |
| GGA |  | Generalised gradient approximation |
| GNR |  | Graphene nanoribbon |
| FIR |  | Far-infrared |
| HSL |  | Hydrogen-passivated armchair graphene nanoribbons superlattice |
| ISB |  | Intersubband |
| JDOS |  | Joint density of states |
| LDA |  | Local density approximation |
| LDOS |  | Local density of states |
| LER |  | Line-edge-roughness |
| MC |  | Monte Carlo |
| MIR |  | Mid-Infrared |
| NEGF |  | Non-equilibrium Green’s function |
| QCD |  | Qantum cascade detector |
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| QCL |  | Qantum cascade laser |
| QW |  | Qantum well |
| 3QW |  | Three-well |
| RNGH |  | Risken-Nummedal-Graham-Haken |
| SA |  | Saturable absorber |
| SIESTA |  | Spanish initiative for electronic simulations with thousands of atoms |
| SL |  | Superlattice |
| TB |  | Tight-binding |
| THz |  | Terahertz |
| ZGNR |  | Zigzag graphene nanoribbon |
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