Dr. Hideaki Tsubaki

Manager in the photoresist development group
FUJIFILM corporation


Dr. Hideaki Tsubaki is the Manager in the photoresist development group at FUJIFILM corporation. He joined Tokyo Institute of Technology and received the PhD in 2004.

Then he joined FUJIFILM R&D management headquarters. He involved ArF immersion resist development for 4 years and invented NTI process which becomes industry standard for next generation lithography. In 2008-2015, he led the early development of EUV resist and played a major role in improving RLS tradeoff relationship toward high-volume manufacturing. In 2016-2021, he investigated a high resolution thick KrF resist for CIS and 3D-NAND memory as a manager. Since 2022, he has been developing a novel photoresist for next generation lithography. He has published 18 papers and over 150 patents, and has received the Chemical Society of Japan CSJ Award for Technical Development in 2015.