Aid of scaling laws in the achievement of a well-controlled film deposition process -- A spectroscopic approach to carbon materials for energy storage -- Biocompatibility, cytotoxicity and bioactivity of amorphous carbon films -- Characterisation of the growth mechanism during PECVD of multi-walled carbon nanotubes -- Correlation between local structure and film properties in states in amorphous carbon materials -- Defects in CVD diamond films from their response as nuclear detectors -- Effects of nanoscale clustering in amorphous carbon -- Elastic and structural properties of carbon materials investigated by Brillouin light scattering -- Electrical resistivity and real structure of magnetron sputtered carbon films -- Formation, atomic structures, and properties of carbon nanocage materials -- Hard amorphous hydrogenated carbon films and alloys -- Ion microscopy on diamond -- Measurements of defect density inside CVD diamond films through nuclear particle penetration -- Laser ablation deposited CNx thin films -- Modelling of the transport properties of diamond radiation sensors -- Nucleation process of CVD diamond on molybdenum substrates -- Optical characterisation of high-quality homoepitaxial diamond -- Pulsed laser deposition of carbon films: tailoring structure and properties -- Raman spectra and structure of sp2 carbon based materials: electron-phonon coupling, vibrational dynamics and Raman activity -- Raman spectroscopy and optical properties of amorphous diamond-like carbon films -- Raman spectroscopy of CVD carbon thin films excited by near-infrared light -- The role of hydrogen in the electronic structure of amorphous carbon: an electron spectroscopy study -- UV-induced photoconduction in diamond -- Vibrational spectroscopy in ion irradiated carbon based thin films.