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AAS Atomic Absorption Spectroscopy
ACF absorption correction factor
ADC analog to digital converter
AED Atomic Emission Detector
AEM analytical electron microscope/microscopy
AES Atomic Emission Spectroscopy
AES Auger electron spectroscopy
AFM atomic force microscopy
AFS Atomic Fluorescence Spectroscopy
APSTM Analytical Photon Scanning Tunneling Microscope
ATW atmospheric thin window
BSE backscattered electron
BSED backscattered electron diffraction
BSEI backscattered electron image/imaging
CB coherent bremsstrahlung
CBIM convergent-beam imaging
CCD charge-coupled device
CFEG cold field-emission gun
CL condenser lens
CL cathodoluminescence
CRT cathode-ray tube
CTEM Conventional Transmission Electron Microscopy
DP diffraction pattern
DSTEM dedicated scanning transmission electron microscopy
EBIC electron beam-induced current
EBSD electron backscatter diffraction
ECD Electron Capture Detector
EDAX Energy Dispersive Analysis of X-rays
EDS Energy Dispersive X-ray Spectroscopy
EDX Energy Dispersive X-ray Analysis
EDXF Enery Dispersive X-ray Fluorescence
EELS electron energy-loss spectrometry/spectroscopy
EFTEM energy filtering transmission electron microscope
EI Electron Impact
EM Electron Microscopy
EMMA electron microscope microanalyzer
EMP electron microprobe
EMPA electron microprobe analysis
EMS electron microscopy image simulation
EPASA Electron Probe Analysis Society of America
EPMA electron probe microanalyzer
EPMA electron probe micro analysis
EPMA electron probe microanalysis
ESCA electron spectroscopy for chemical analysis
ESD Electron Stimulated Desorption
ESEM Environmental Scanning Electron Microscopy
ESI electron spectroscopic imaging
ESR Electron Spin Resonance
FA Fluorescence Analysis
FCF fluorescence correction factor
FEG field emission gun
FEM Field Emission Electron Microscopy
FET field effect transistor
FFEM Freeze-Fracture Electron Microscopy
FFT fast Fourier transform
FIM field ion microscopy
FSE fast secondary electron
FWHM full width at half maximum
FWTM full width at tenth maximum
GB grain boundary
GCS generalized cross section
HPGe high purity Germanium detector
HREM high resolution electron microscope
HRTEM high-resolution transmission electron microscope/microscopy
HV high vacuum
HVEM high voltage electron microscope/microscopy
ICP Inductively Coupled Plasma
IR infrared spectroscopy
IVEM intermediate voltage electron microscope/microscopy
JEOL Japanese Electron Optics Laboratory
KAP potassium acid phthalate
LDE1 Layered Dispertion Element 1
LDE2 Layered Dispertion Element 2
LEED low-energy electron diffraction
LEEM Low Energy Electron Microscopy
LIF Lithium Fluoride
LM light microscopy
LOD Limit Of Detection
MAC mass absorption coefficient
MAS Microbeam Analysis Society
MCA multichannel analyzer
MDM minimum detectable mass
MEEM Metastable Electron Emission Microscopy
MEM Mirror Electron Microscopy
MLS multiple least squares fit
MMF minimum mass fraction
MS Mass Spectroscopy
NAA Neutron Activation Analysis
NIST National Institute of Standards and Technology
nm nanometer
NMR Nuclear Magnetic Resonance
NPD Nitrogen-Phosphorous Detector
OBIC Optical Beam Induced Current
OES Optical Emission Spectroscopy
P/B peak-to-background ratio
PAP Pouchou and Pichoir
PB phase boundary
PB Particle Beam
PEELS parallel electron energy-loss spectroscopy
PEEM Photoemission Electron Microscopy
PES Photoelectron Spectroscopy
PET Pentaerythritol
PLI Photoluminescence Imaging
PMT photomultiplier tube
ppb parts per billion
ppm parts per million
QE quantum efficiency
RAP rubidum acid phthalate ratemeter
REM reflection electron microscope/microscopy
RHEED reflection high-energy electron diffraction
S/N signal-to-noise ratio
SAD selected-area diffraction
SAED selected area electron diffraction
SAM scanning Auger microscopy/microprobe
SAXS Small-Angle X-ray Scattering
SCL Spectrally Resolved Cathodoluminescence
SE secondary electron
SEELS serial electron energy-loss spectrometer/spectrometry
SEM scanning electron microscope/microscopy
SESM scanning electron spectrometric spectroscopy
Si(Li) Lithium drifted silicon
SIMS secondary ion mass spectrometry/spectroscopy
SPEEM Scanning Photoemission Electron Microscopy
SPELEEM Spectroscopic Photoemission and Low Energy Electron Microscopy
SPEM Scanning Photoelectron Microscopy
SPM Scanning Probe Microscopy
SRM standard reference material
STEM scanning transmission electron microscope/microscopy
STM scanning tunneling microscope/microscopy
STS Scanning Tunneling Spectroscopy
STXM Scanning Transmission X-ray Microscopy
SXTM Scanning X-ray Transmission Microscopy
TAP Thallium Acid Phthalate
TB twin boundary
TED Transmission Electron Diffraction
TED Thermionic Emission Detector
TEM transmission electron microscope/microscopy
TLE Thin Layer Electrode
TOF-MS Time-Of-Flight Mass Spectrometry
TXM Transmission X-ray Microscopy
UHV ultrahigh vacuum
UTW ultra thin window
VLM visible-light microscope/microscopy
WDS wavelength-dispersive
WDX wavelength dispersive X-ray spectroscopy
XANES X-ray absorption near-edge spectroscopy
XANES X-ray absorption near-edge structure
XEDS X-ray energy-dispersive
XPEEM X-ray Photoemission Electron Microscopy
XPLEEM X-ray Photoemission and Low Energy Electron Microscopy
XPS X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy
XRD X-ray diffraction
XRF X-ray Fluorescence
ZAF atomic number, absorption, fluorescence correction