| a-Ge | preamorphized (Section 2) or amorphous germanium (Section 5) |
| a-Si | preamorphized (Section 3) or amorphous silicon (Section 5) |
| FIB | focused ion beam |
| GPGPU | general purpose computation on graphics processing unit |
| IBIESD | ion-beam induced enhanced self-diffusion |
| MBE | molecular beam epitaxy |
| MD | molecular dynamics |
| PDT | pixel dwell time |
| PKA | primary knock-on atom |
| RBS/C | Rutherford backscattering spectrometry in channeling geometry |
| RDF | radial distribution function |
| SIMS | secondary ion mass spectrometry |
| SPE | solid phase epitaxy |
| SW | Stillinger-Weber |
| XTEM | cross-sectional transmission electron microscope |