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IBM Journal of Research and Development  
Volume 41, Numbers 1/2, 1997
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Chemical amplification resists: History and development within IBM - Author bio

by H. Ito

Biographical sketch of author

Hiroshi Ito IBM Research Division, Almaden Research Center, 650 Harry Road, San Jose, California 95120 (HIROSHI at ALMADEN, hiroshi@almaden.ibm.com). Dr. Ito is a research staff member in the Science and Technology Department at the Almaden Research Center. He received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in chemistry from the University of Tokyo in 1970, 1972, and 1976, respectively. From 1976 to 1980, he worked as a research associate at the Chemistry Department of the State University of New York, Syracuse, on the synthesis of stereoregular polysaccharides for biological and medical applications. Dr. Ito joined IBM at the San Jose Research Laboratory in 1980 and has since been working on the development of new advanced resist materials. In 1986 and 1989, respectively, he received IBM Outstanding Innovation Awards for his work on a dry development process involving selective silylation and for his scientific achievements in developing chemical amplification resists. In 1988 and 1993 he also received IBM Outstanding Innovation Awards for inventing a bilayer lift-off process for magnetoresistive head fabrication. Dr. Ito is a recipient of the Arthur K. Doolittle Award (1990, American Chemical Society, Division of Polymeric Materials Science and Engineering), the Award of the Society of Polymer Science, Japan (1990), and the Cooperative Research Award (1994, American Chemical Society, Division of Polymeric Materials Science and Engineering). He is a member of the American Chemical Society, the Society of Polymer Science, Japan, and the Chemical Society of Japan.