| Acronym | Meaning |
| ORS | Odds Ratios |
| SPS | Surface Photovoltage Spectroscopy |
| SSIMS | Static Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry |
| LEC | Liquid Encapsulated Czochralski |
| ULTRA | Underground Leak Transport Assessment Model |
| RVCM | Renormalized Virtual-crystal Method (for Electronic Structure) |
| MSO | Modified Slater Orbital |
| O/E | Observed Number/expected Number Ratio = Relative Risk |
| TBLMTO | Tight-binding Linear (combination Of) Muffin-tin Orbitals |
| HBT | Heterojunction Bipolar Transistor |