Lars-Åke Ragnarsson
Lars-Åke Ragnarsson is program director of sustainable semiconductor technologies and systems (SSTS) at imec. He received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the Chalmers University of Technology in Göteborg, Sweden. From 2000-2002, he did postdoctoral studies with the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, NY, focusing mainly on the electrical characterization of high-k dielectrics. Since 2002, he has been with imec, focusing on developing advanced technologies using high-κ dielectrics and metal gates. Today, Lars-Åke is program director in compute and memory technologies, focusing on the sustainability of current and future technologies.

Authored articles

The road to net-zero emissions in IC manufacturing
Imec presents a bottom-up life cycle assessment of logic technology nodes and gives first recommendations to lower carbon emissions
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What’s cooking in imec’s sustainable-semiconductor program?
With more partners joining the Sustainable Semiconductor Technologies and Systems program, it’s time to tune in on the vision and milestones.
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