| Acronym | Meaning |
| GIXD | Grazing Incidence X-ray Diffraction |
| STAS | Scientific And Technical Attribute And Element Set |
| LCHOP | Linear Combination (of) Harmonic Oscillator Products |
| PCPAA | Prompt Charged Particle Activation Analysis |
| MASP-HMO | Mutual Additive Substituent Parameter-Hueckel Molecular Orbital |
| CCO | Coupled-channel-optical (potential |
| DDAF | Dicretized Distributes Approximating Function (propagator |
| RECP-CVC | Relativistic Effective-core Potential With Core-valence Correlation |
| HPW | High Pressure Welding |
| SCPF | Self-consistent Polarization Field Method |