| Acronym | Meaning |
| HESSI | High Energy Solar Spectroscopic Imager |
| LPCVD | Low Pressure Chemical Vapor Deposition |
| RVCM | Renormalized Virtual-crystal Method (for Electronic Structure) |
| DHS | Double Heterostructure |
| SCATMES | Scanning Camera And Target Measurement System |
| ERT | Environmental Response Team |
| LDA | Linear Discriminant Analysis |
| ASP | Auger Sputter Profiling |
| QDFM | Quantitative DNA Fiber Mapping |
| APYS | Auger-electron Partial Yield Spectroscopy |