We are an agile and innovative company with materials in our DNA

Irresistible Materials is a dynamic electronic materials company developing novel and proprietary platforms
for advanced semiconductor patterning.

Our work is based on broad and deep technical roots combined with highly relevant industry experience across lithography and chemistry with a clear focus on solutions that deliver high levels of performance and productivity.

Experience & Foundation

Built on deep industry and research experience

Irresistible Materials was founded on the mission to develop a unique photoresist material to enable the industry adoption of EUV lithography.

We recognized that the industry had an urgent need for a brand new resist platform, one engineered from the ground up for EUV lithography rather than having to rely on legacy technologies.

Significant hands-on and practical experience across data analytics, DOE design, etch, lithography, materials science, metrology, and synthetic chemistry

Active engagement with leading industry consortia and research programs

Solution-oriented approach for optimizing resist performance across the entire material stack in conjunction with etcher, scanner, and track

Strong global IP portfolio with over 50 combined patents granted and patent applications across 15 patent families covering material composition and application

Leadership TEAM

The people driving change

Seasoned technologists and Business entrepreneurs who understand what it takes.

Dinesh Bettadapur
Dinesh Bettadapur
Chief Executive Officer

Dinesh brings extensive leadership experience across the semiconductor industry encompassing executive management roles in business development, general management, operations, P&L management, sales, and strategic alliances. Over the course of his career, he has been involved in several technology domains in chip design and manufacturing spanning capital equipment, digital twin, IP, lithography, materials, services, and software. He has worked at industry leaders such as ASML, Intel, and Lam Research as well as multiple Silicon Valley startups with 3 successful exits under his belt. He has driven technology commercialization and scaling innovation into manufacturing environments involving a wide variety of business models while building long-term business partnerships with the industry's leading IDMs, foundries, equipment vendors and fabless design companies. He holds an MSEE degree from Virginia Tech USA and BSEE degree from Bangalore University, India.

Alex Robinson
Alex Robinson
Chief Technical Officer

Alex has significant technical leadership experience in molecular catalytic polymerization resists for EUV lithography, resist properties of amorphous low molecular weight materials, and ICP etching. He obtained his PhD for work on molecular resist materials done in the Nanoscale Physics Research Laboratory at University of Birmingham, and the Joint Research Center for Atom Technology ‘AIST Tsukuba’ in Japan, and has carried out research in the areas of modification of oxide surfaces using self-assembled mono-layer and multilayers, ultra-high carbon content spin-on materials, organic electronics, nanostructured catalysts, and bioprobe fluorophores, alongside work on resists for EUV, electron-beam, atom-beam and ion-beam lithography. Alex is a Chartered Physicist, Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, Member of the Institute of Physics and Member of SPIE. He has previously founded the spin-out company Chromatwist and served on the advisory board of Lace Lithography.

David Ure
David Ure
Chief Financial Officer

David has over 20 years of senior executive experience in the biotechnology and materials science industries. Additional 8 years senior management, management consulting and financial controller experience to start-ups and high growth companies. Successfully founded and built three high tech start-ups, raising over $40M to support the companies’ commercial growth within the Biotechnology and Materials Science industries. Chairman of Inanovate, Inc. a US-based diagnostic company. Recipient of the Sorenson Award for Outstanding Entrepreneurial Achievement 2006; MBA Summa Cum Laude from Babson College, USA, and MS with Distinction in Nuclear Physics from the University of Birmingham, UK. Inventor on twelve patents relating to medical devices and novel nano-scale materials. Published author and invited speaker on nano-technologies and bio-technologies including their commercial and societal impacts.

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