From Almighty Scholar to Chief Scientist

Chapter 246 Sanctions?Then get an X-lithography machine!
[The FBI was dispatched suddenly and captured the undercover agent who had been lurking for ten years. 】

[The FBI caught an undercover agent, suspected to be from Huaguo? 】

[Recently, the FBI caught an undercover agent and committed suicide in fear of crime the night before the trial]

[Undercover suicide?Or another reason! 】

……

A piece of related news began to compete for various headlines.

This kind of news has to attract people's attention, undercover?
And the undercover committed suicide in fear of crime?

For such news, everyone who saw it was shocked.

In Huaguo, there are many people discussing it on the Internet, and they don't know whether this undercover agent is really theirs.

After all, these are just news from abroad, and no one knows the details.

Compared with this political matter, people in the semiconductor industry pay more attention to another piece of news.

Foreign sanctions technology has added a few more, one, quasi-laser emitters.

This thing is a very necessary part of the light source of the lithography machine.

It mainly uses carbon dioxide lasers to emit extremely high-energy lasers, outputting laser beams with an average power of more than 30kW, and the pulse peak value can reach several megawatts. Make it emit extreme ultraviolet light with a wavelength of 13.5nm.

To achieve such a high power on a carbon dioxide laser, ordinary technology is completely unfeasible, and Huaguo's current carbon dioxide laser cannot meet this requirement in terms of power, but what needs to be known is that this power will ultimately affect the The actual power of the EUV light source.

If the EUV light source does not have enough power, it will have a great impact on them.

In addition, the more important sensors in several other EUV light sources have also been sanctioned.

In this way, if they want to develop a lithography machine, they must first achieve breakthroughs in these areas, otherwise the light source will not be available, and everything will be useless.

All of a sudden, Huaguo's semiconductor industry once again set off a wave of bad-mouthing voices.

How long would it take them if they continued to do it one by one?

At that time, foreign countries may have found a technology that can break through the existing lithography machines.

In addition to these things related to lithography machine technology, foreign countries have imposed sanctions on the photomask, one of the raw materials. The photomask is also very important in the lithography process. Only through the mask , extreme ultraviolet light can achieve direct lithography.

Currently, mainstream masks are made of quartz, and this time the main sanctioned item is this quartz material, and the production process of this quartz material is very difficult, and the country has always needed to import foreign ones.

And now they can't buy quartz materials, which means that all domestic mask manufacturers are directly scrapped.

After these few tricks, the domestic semiconductor industry chain was once again hit hard.

……

"Damn it, those foreign devils must have come up with bad things after seeing us come up with top-level mirror polishing technology. They are really shameless!"

Dingguang Research Institute, in Lin Xiao's office, Luo Ming said indignantly.

But Lin Xiao just sat quietly at his desk, thinking about the problem.

But Luo Ming was still angry, and continued: "They also arrested an undercover agent, claiming to be one of our people, and then publicized that he hanged himself in the prison? It was obviously just to demonstrate to us again! Could there be a rope in the prison to let us go?" Did someone hang himself?"

"Bah, disgusting!"

But hearing what Luo Ming said, Lin Xiao frowned: "Undercover? Hanged himself?"

"Yeah, the news from abroad has all come back, it's simply too hateful!"

Luo Ming said angrily.

But Lin Xiao suddenly stood up.

Undercover?

Then it happened to be discovered at this time node?

He has a good memory and a strong association ability. He immediately thought of the Wolf Prize.

Didn't someone from Guoan tell him that he received the information and asked him not to accept the award?

At that time, he also thought about where the information came from, but he didn't think too much. Thinking about it now, is it because there are such undercover agents who sent the news for them?

He couldn't help breathing quickly. If the undercover agent was really one of them, it was really because of him that he was discovered.

Then he...

Next to him, Luo Ming saw that Lin Xiao was not in a hurry when he heard that he was sanctioned, but when he mentioned the undercover incident, he became like this, and he couldn't help wondering: "Professor Lin, what's wrong? "

Lin Xiao waved his hands and said in a deep voice, "I need to make a call, please."

Luo Ming knew that Lin Xiao wanted to avoid it, so he nodded, "Okay, you can call, if there is anything, just tell me."

"Ah."

Lin Xiao nodded. After watching Luo Ming leave, he took out his mobile phone, thought for a while, and finally found the number of the national security officer who called him back then. Although it had been several months, he still remembered the call When did you call him? I found it after looking through the address book.

Then, he dialed.

After a while, the call was connected, and the other party's voice was obviously a little surprised: "Is it Professor Lin?"

"It's me, are you a comrade of Guoan?"

"Yes, what's the matter with you calling?"

"Is the undercover caught in the news the one who helped me?"

Lin Xiao asked, feeling very nervous.

"Uh... You don't have to think too much about this, we won't send spies abroad."

The national security staff gave a very official answer.

Lin Xiao didn't give up, and still asked: "I know, but I just want to confirm whether he is someone who helped me, and there will be no secrets involved. Of course, it is impossible for me to disclose such secrets."

Hearing what Lin Xiao said, the staff member was dumb for a moment, and then said: "Professor Lin, please wait a moment, I will ask my leader, and I will call you back later."

"Okay, sorry to bother you."

Lin Xiao said.

Then hung up the phone, and he began to wait.

While waiting, he could only hope in his heart that the other party gave him a negative answer, but he thought too much.

It's just that there is always a feeling of uneasiness in his heart, which makes him think that it is very necessary for him to confirm this matter.

In this way, time passed quickly, and finally, his cell phone rang again.

He quickly connected and asked, "How is it?"

The other party said: "Professor Lin, I can only tell you one thing. The person who helped you at the beginning did hang himself in prison and died recently. But I'm sorry, I can't tell you whether he is the person in the news."

Lin Xiao fell silent.

The other party did not acknowledge the connection between the two, but it was not convenient to disclose it for the sake of confidentiality.

But obviously, the other party has hinted.

He hanged himself in prison and died recently. Besides this person, who else could he be?
Hearing that he had not spoken, the other party said: "Professor Lin, if you have nothing to do, I will hang up. In fact, to tell you the truth, we will mourn a comrade who died later, just like you. We are all sad."

Lin Xiao finally spoke at this moment: "The person who helped me, is his family safe? Can I do something for his family?"

"Don't worry about this. When he helped you, he helped us, and we have corresponding measures."

"Okay, then... thank you."

"Hehe, it is our mission to protect an important scientist like you. We all have a sense of fate. You don't need to be too sad. If possible, what we look forward to is that you can work hard in your career. Make more deeds, so that our mission will be meaningful."

"I will."

"Well, then I won't bother you, goodbye."

"Goodbye."

The call is over.

Lin Xiao held the phone and did nothing.

There was silence in the office.

After a while, he finally came back to his senses, but he closed his eyes.

"system."

"Using the [Mechanical Overall Optimization Guide], for the current EUV lithography machine, the optimization direction is X-ray lithography machine. Scaling effects to enable mass production."

"Optimization in progress, please wait..."

Lin Xiao opened his eyes again.

The dead are gone, the living are like this.

The Guoan staff member said it well. They expect him to make more and more important achievements, which makes their mission meaningful.

Then he can't live up to their expectations, especially the comrade who died because of him.

Foreign countries want to impose sanctions on EUV light sources, so he will change to X-rays.

If foreign countries want to impose sanctions on the mask plate, then he will develop a maskless X-lithography machine.

He doesn't get angry at what his enemies do, he only makes those enemies regret it.

(End of this chapter)