Carbon: The Future Material for Advanced Technology Applications (Hardcover)

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