| Acronym | Meaning |
| IBARE | Ion Beam Assisted Radical Etching |
| SAFIR | Smoke Gas Anal. By Fourier Transform IR Spectroscopy |
| ALAP | As Low As Possible |
| APA | Adiabatic Perturbation Approxn. (for Quantum Calcns. On Fermi Superfluids) |
| PACIMS | Passive Chem. Ionization Mass Spectrometry |
| CADE | Computer Aided Deposit Evaluation |
| CCC | Calibration Check Compounds |
| KCS | K-matrix Centrifugal Sudden (in Mol.-scattering Theory) |
| SCPT | Self-consistent-perturbation Theory |
| SESAM | Semiconductor Saturable Absorber Mirror |