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About the authors Swati Achra is pursuing PhD in Materials Engineering in MTM department, KU Leuven and at imec. She joined Nano-interconnects team at imec in 2017 and works on developing graphene enabled hybrid interconnects for future technology nodes. She received a joint MSc degree in Erasmus Mundus Masters in Nanoscience and Nanotechnologymagna cum laude from KU Leuven, Belgium and Université Grenoble Alpes, France in 2017. During her master's thesis, she worked in Institut Néel, CNRS, France studying in-situ thermal transport in suspended graphene and CNT membranes. She received the L’Initiative D’Excellence (IDEX) Scholarship for European Graduate Programs. Prior to this, she was working as research intern in 2D materials team at imec for

in the organization. First as a process engineer and researcher in the field of copper low-k interconnects, then he headed the metal section. Later he became principal scientist, and program director nano-interconnects. He earned a M.S. (1994) in physics from the University Kossuth in Debrecen, Hungary. In the framework of a co-directed thesis between the Hungarian University Kossuth and the French University Aix Marseille-III, he obtained his PhD (1997) in physics and materials science. In 1998 he started working at the Max-Planck Institute of Düsseldorf, Germany, as a post-doctorate researcher. Joining imec, he continued working on a range of interconnect issues including scaling, metallization, electrical characterization, module integration, reliability and system aspects.

developing spin-on-dielectric assisted transfer of 2D TMDCs. She graduated B.Tech in Chemical Engineering and Materials Science with university gold medal in 2015 from Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Tamil Nadu, India. Inge Asselberghs is program manager for exploratory logic at imec. She received the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in chemistry from the University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium, in 1998 and 2003, respectively. After a Post-Doctoral Fellowship in nonlinear optics, she moved to imec, Leuven, as a Researcher, where she was involved in exploratory 2-D-material-based device fabrication and characterization. Zsolt Tokei is imec fellow, program director nano-interconnects at imec. He joined imec in 1999 and since then held various technical positions

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