Hiroki Miyai, General Manager of our Technology Department 5, and Hidehiro Watanabe, who was formerly in charge of advanced mask research at EIDEC and is currently Senior Engineer of our Technology Department 5, received 2018 BACUS Prize from SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics, for making a significant impact on the technology of mask making and contributing to the photomask industry through the concept, development and commercialization of the EUV Actinic Blank Inspection (ABI) System.