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The road to net-zero emissions in IC manufacturing

To reduce environmental impact, imec has presented a bottom-up lifecycle assessment of logic technology nodes and prepared first recommendations to lower carbon emissions. Here we talk to Lars-Åke Ragnarsson, program director of Sustainable Semiconductor Technologies and Systems at imec, about their approach to help the semiconductor industry reduce the environmental effects of integrated circuit manufacturing.

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Bubnova, O. The road to net-zero emissions in IC manufacturing. Nat Rev Electr Eng 1, 214–215 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s44287-024-00023-y

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