| Acronym | Meaning |
| URG | Umweltrahmengesetz (German Environmental Protection Framework Law) |
| ALS | Autonomous Listening Station |
| PMP2 | (spin) Projected Moeller-Plesset Second-order (perturbation Theory) |
| VSEPR | Valence-shell Electron-pair Repulsion |
| ASM | Acoustic Surface Measurement |
| BSCCO | Bismuth Strontium Calcium Copper Oxide |
| TEOS | Tetraethyl Orthosilicate |
| ANK | Al2O3/(Na2O + K2O) |
| FEEM | Field Electron Emission Microscopy |
| DHBT | Double Heterojunction Bipolar Transistor |