| Acronym | Meaning |
| ASP | Auger Sputter Profiling |
| AFLP | Amplified Fragment Length Polymorphism |
| ECCI | Electron Channeling Contrast Imaging |
| PHFS | Perturbative Hartree-Fock-Slater |
| AIF-1 | Allograft Inflammatory Factor-1 |
| IPMS | Infinite Periodic Minimum Surfaces |
| AETM | Analytical Electron Transmission Microscopy |
| BCSC | Buried Contact Solar Cell |
| BGA | Bundesgesundheitamt (German Health Ministry) |
| EMS | Electron Momentum Spectroscopy |