| Acronym | Meaning |
| VMS | Volcanogenic Massive Sulfide |
| CEM | Conventional Electron Microscope |
| CBEDP | Convergent-beam Electron-diffraction Pattern |
| EBK | Einstein-Brillouin-Keller (quantization Method) |
| CADASIL | Cerebral Autosomal Dominant Arteriopathy With Subcortical Infarcts And Leukoencephalopathy |
| SDGUGA | Shape-driven Graphical Unitary Group Approach |
| FMTBA | Fitted Modified Tight-binding Approxn. |
| PSII | Plasma Source Ion Implantation |
| LOM | Laminated Object Manufacturing |
| TRXF | Total Reflection X-ray Fluorescence |