After a pause, Professor Wu Tianqun suppressed the excitement in his voice and continued.
After listening to Lu Zhou's instructions, Professor Wu nodded seriously and said.
"The carbon-based chip is in the nearby laboratory. For safety reasons, I locked it in the sample cabinet. Please come with me!"
Lu Zhou nodded: "Then please, I won't disturb your work here."
When he saw Lu Zhou appearing at the door, Professor Wu was obviously stunned for a second and said in surprise.
I am just a professor, with the title of Yangtze River Scholar at most. Under normal circumstances, if I want to join such an expert group to conduct technical feasibility studies on key technologies that can affect the country's strategic direction, it is basically impossible.
"I couldn't wait to come over as soon as I arrived in Jinling," Lu Zhou said concisely and concisely. He glanced at the experimental equipment behind him and then asked, "I didn't disturb your experiment, did I?"
Being able to join such an expert group will be of great help to his future academic career, both from the perspective of broadening his network and from the perspective of academic qualifications itself!
After learning the news, Lu Zhou felt excited.
This means that the first strategic goal of China's fifth largest semiconductor industry group has seen the dawn of victory!
Professor Wu smiled and said: "It doesn't matter. This thing will not delay the experiment. I guarantee that you will be able to see it within a week."
"What's the matter? If it weren't for your two papers published in Nature that provided the theoretical basis for this technical route, and the SG-1 room temperature superconducting material of Jinling Institute of Advanced Studies, I wouldn't have been able to make it. Carbon-based transistors are even less likely to conquer the carbon-based chip barrier."
Although he was much older than him, it always felt weird to say this, but this was indeed what he was feeling at this moment.
"...Currently, we have been able to implement the chip into a 150nm process based on the disclosed chip design. Although there is still a certain gap between mature commercial chips, it has shown far superior performance in terms of computing speed, energy consumption and heat generation. The superiority of traditional silicon-based chips.”
Technical feasibility demonstration expert group established by the central government!
"No, no," Professor Wu Tianqun shook his head and said with a smile, "The experiment has just been completed, and we are collecting the experimental data. Your coming at this time will not have much impact."
Professor Wu Tianqun: "The production difficulty will not be higher than that of silicon-based chips! As for the cost, although it is a little more expensive, it is completely acceptable considering the cost-effectiveness issue!"
"Academician Lu? You have... come back from Shangjing?"
After staring at the brown glassware for a while, looking at the thumbnail-sized chip lying quietly in the card slot in the center of the container, Lu Zhou said: "Open it and look at it. You don't need it anymore. Just tell me briefly. "
The chip had been looked at, and everything that needed to be explained had been explained. Lu Zhou was about to leave the laboratory, but at this moment he suddenly remembered something, so he turned around and looked at Professor Wu Tianqun and said.
Walking to a sample cabinet that looked like a safe, Professor Wu skillfully took out the key and unlocked the cabinet. Then he put on his gloves and carefully took out a palm-sized brown glassware from the sample cabinet.
After clearing his throat, Professor Wu Tianqun introduced the technical details of this chip to Lu Zhou in concise words.
When Lu Zhou asked about this matter, Professor Wu Tianqun showed a serious expression on his face and said with a smile.
"OK!"
"As long as it doesn't disturb your experiments," Lu Zhou nodded, and then asked impatiently, "Where is the carbon-based chip? I'm here for it."
"As long as we can increase the number of transistors per square millimeter to more than 30 million and improve the process technology to more than 10nm, this kind of chip will have the possibility of commercialization! And this kind of carbon-based chip has superior physical properties , it will be incomparable to silicon-based chips!”
Although it was just an understatement, in Professor Wu Tianqun's ears, it set off a storm in his heart.
what does that mean
"No need to thank me."
"Because it is made of carbon material, this chip is relatively sensitive to strong light sources, so I have kept it here. Do you want to take a look?"
This means that Professor Wu Tianqun’s research team has successfully achieved a leapfrog breakthrough from carbon-based transistors to carbon-based chips!
Lu Zhou: "How difficult is mass production?"
Lu Zhou: "It's not urgent. Just give it to me within a week. Or if you're too busy, it can be a few days later. It's still about your experiments."
On the day when the conference ended, Lu Zhou, who had just delivered the closing speech at the closing ceremony, rushed to the Capital Airport and took a plane to leave Beijing and return to Jinling.
If he remembered correctly, he saw this big shot on Xinwen Network's live broadcast this morning...
"Okay, I'll prepare it in a moment. When will you need it?"
Although there is still a big gap in this number compared to silicon-based chips that start out in the hundreds of millions, this chip can already perform some not-so-complex mathematical operations like ordinary computer chips.
After giving instructions on the research work to his students, Professor Wu Tianqun took Lu Zhou out of the door and into the laboratory next to him.
As the name suggests, carbon-based chips are naturally processors that inherit carbon-based transistors. According to Professor Wu Tianqun's description, this small carbon-based chip contains 100,000 carbon nanotube transistors.
No matter what is being argued, as long as the first two words are "central", it must be an academician-level or above expert who can cross this threshold, or at least an academic leader in a certain field who has the right to speak.
"By the way, the central government will set up an expert group to demonstrate the feasibility of topological quantum computing technology in a while. I have recommended your name to it."
Ever since he received Professor Wu's email, although he was still having a meeting in Shangjing, Lu Zhou's mind had already flown to Jinling, a thousand miles away.
After taking a deep breath and looking at Lu Zhou standing at the door, Professor Wu said with a grateful tone.
"Besides, this is not a promotion from me, but something you earned through your own efforts and dedication."
"Okay, it's just the two of us here, let's not talk to each other in business," Lu Zhou smiled, then put on a serious expression and continued, "Regarding these research results, please write two reports, one You don’t need to bring specific technical details for one copy, just briefly talk about the results. For the other copy, you have to put more thought into it. In addition to not following the format of the paper, it basically follows the pattern of the paper and writes what should be written. Write down all the technical details, which will be used when registering a patent.”
He rushed to the Carbon-Based Semiconductor Laboratory without stopping. When Lu Zhou just stepped through the door, Professor Wu Tianqun was busy with his students and researchers around an experimental equipment.
Lu Zhou couldn't help but praise: "Well done! Professor Wu, you have done a great job!"
"Thank you for the promotion!"
"If you must thank me, just thank you for your hard work."
As soon as the plane landed, Lu Zhou, who had left the airport, didn't even bother to put his luggage back home. Without saying a word, he asked Wang Peng to drive him directly to the Jinling Institute for Advanced Study.
"And the most important thing is that this chip uses a 'chemical deposition + etching' preparation method similar to the SG-1 room temperature superconducting material. We will no longer be technically limited by the accuracy of photolithography technology. And in Theoretically, there is still a lot of room for improvement in this method! We are currently looking for ways to further shrink the chip process and increase the number of transistors per square millimeter.”
Looking at Professor Wu who looked touched, Lu Zhou smiled and said.
Samples of carbon-based chips have been born!
Hearing Lu Zhou's words, Professor Wu Tianqun smiled sheepishly.