"Let's go over."
Zhou Jun looked at Ling Chen and asked anxiously.
Ling Chen nodded.”
He walked around a bunch of experimental equipment and entered the laboratory.
When the two of them were about to approach the experimental equipment, the researchers finally noticed Ling Chen and Zhou Jun.
Standing in the crowd.
When Ling Chen saw a middle-aged man who looked very academic, he revealed a surprised expression. He walked over quickly and called out to him,"Academician Ling!"
"Superintendent Zhou!"
"This is the team leader of the carbon-based chip project.”
Knowing that it was Ling Chen's first time meeting this person, Zhou Jun introduced him,""Professor Yan Siyuan."
"Hello, Professor Yan." Ling Chen nodded.”
"Hello, hello!"
Yan Siyuan was flattered and held Ling Chen's right hand, waving it enthusiastically."Academician Ling, why are you here personally?”
"I heard that there were results from the experiment, so Zhou Jun dragged me over.”
Ling Chen let go of his hand and looked at the equipment in the crowd. He smiled.
"So, our carbon-based chip project has been completed?"”
Professor Yan's face was flushed, and his back was straight. He said,"That was a repeat experiment. The first experiment was successful yesterday!”
Ling Chen pointed at it and said,"Can you show it to me again?"”
Professor Yan immediately made an inviting gesture. Academician Ling, please follow me!"
The production of a chip was a rather complicated matter.
Using the Si crystal as the base, layers of light shields were stacked on top of it.
They were piled up like Lego toys.
In the end, he would be able to obtain a complete chip.
It sounded easy.
However, considering that these " toys " were all size, and that they also included complicated designs, as well as photolithographic technology, it was confusing to even talk about it.
Could they produce a chip that met the market expectations?
It had almost become an important indicator to measure the foundation of a country's electronics industry.
Let's not talk about what this meant for a country or a company. Let's discuss this problem from a technical point of view.
In the OS process, the feature size is typically represented by the width of the " gate."
which is the channel length of the os device.
Generally speaking.
The smaller the feature size, the higher the integration level of the chip, the better the performance, and the lower the power consumption.
However, this size could not be reduced indefinitely.
First of all, the silicon atom had its own width.
Another thing was that the tunneling effect in quantum mechanics would become more and more noticeable as the line width continued to shrink. Under the combined effect of various factors, the future of silicon-based chips was severely limited.
However, mankind's pursuit of new technology was eternal.
Since the silicon-based chip couldn't work, he would try other materials that might work.
He just needed to open up a new battlefield.
According to the latest research, the use of carbon nanotubes and mos
It allowed people to see the dawn of Moore's Law.
However, the situation was not always so optimistic.
These two materials had the potential to replace silicon-based chips.
However, it was all because of their own flaws.
It also caused research institutes around the world that were researching alternative materials for silicon-based chips to be unable to break through the most critical bottleneck.
That is:
Using these two groundbreaking materials, he successfully made the core component of the chip.
A crystal!
Previously, when Ling Chen was researching graphene superconducting materials.
He discovered that two sheets of single-layer graphene stacked at a special angle would exhibit the characteristics of Mott insulation under special circumstances.
This major discovery directly led to an explosive breakthrough in carbon-based superconducting materials, which laid the foundation for another project.
Not only that.
At that time, Ling Chen was keenly aware that this characteristic could not only be applied to the superconducting field, but it could also play an unexpected role in the semiconductor field.
Of course, he didn't know much about the semiconductor industry.
He made this judgment based on his academic intuition.
At that time, he had originally planned to pull his partners to invest in this project.
However, it was a pity that others thought that this project was not very reliable at the time. Moreover, the partner was only a subsidiary company manager and did not have that much decision-making power.
At that time, he had rejected it.
However, Ling Chen did not mind.
He didn't lack money, didn't lack people, and didn't care about losses.
After he returned to China, he pulled out a research and development team under the Institute of Computational Materials and started the project.
Ever since the project was established.
It had been almost two years, and they finally saw the dawn.
He stood beside the experimental equipment.
Through the microscope, he observed the carbon-based chip project team's completed crystal.
After a long time, Ling Chen could not help but let out a sigh."Beautiful…like a diamond!"
Although its raw material was pitch black lead.
However, after it was stripped into graphene fragments and stacked into a crystal, it was like a delicate diamond.
The image displayed by the microscope emitted a dazzling brilliance.
Zhou Jun, who was standing at the side, couldn't hold it in any longer.
Seeing that Ling Chen had moved his eyes away from the eyepieces, he quickly went forward and said,"Let me take a look too."
Ling Chen smiled and stepped aside, giving the eyepieces to Zhou Jun.
He looked into the eyepieces for a while.
About two minutes later.
Zhou Juncai sighed,"It's really demeaning to describe it as a diamond!" I dare say that all the diamonds in the world added together are not as valuable as this thing.”
"Hahahaha!"
Everyone laughed.
Those researchers who had already enjoyed the joy of success once laughed out loud.
At this moment.
The tears of joy in their eyes were more precious than diamonds.
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