Johan Swerts

Director at imec

Leuven, Flemish Region, Belgium

About

Experience

  • imec (17 yrs 6 mos)
    • Director R&D, head of department
      Aug 2022 - Present · 4 yrs

      head of the MIDA department (100+ FTE) - Materials & Interfaces, Deposition & Analysis. Responsible for the research and development of new materials and deposition processes used in advanced Si process flows in the 300mm pilot line. Covering the ALD, CVD, PVD, EPI toolset as well as lab tools for material screening such as PLD, MBE.

    • R&D Manager
      Jul 2019 - Aug 2022 · 3 yrs 2 mos

      group lead of the thin film scientific group, responsible for the thin film material research and ALD, PVD, CVD process development in imec's 300mm pilot line serving advanced logic and memory applications

    • Principal Member of Technical Staff
      Oct 2015 - Jun 2019 · 3 yrs 9 mos

      technical lead PVD thin film and stack development for imec's MRAM, Spin Logic, and Superconducting Quantum Computing research programs. Leading the PVD film and material development for bilateral DoD projects in the field of Emerging Memory applications. Team lead of the Magnetic Thin Film and Tunnel Junction (MATT) team.

  • Senior Process Application Development Engineer at ASM
    Sep 2004 - Jan 2009 · 4 yrs 5 mos

    Atomic Layer Deposition process development for CMOS applications, with focus on high-k oxides and metals for the gate stack.