Black technology: a super empire spanning two worlds

Chapter 114 [Superconductivity, it’s done! It’s done! ]

In a blink of an eye, a month passed.

AVIC Linfei Company, Basic Applied Research Experimental Center.

Xiao Yu was here at the moment, and a technician came to him to report: "Plan No. 23, experimental results, synthesis failed."

Hearing this, Xiao Yu pretended to sigh and said, "I see. Everyone has been working hard until now. The National Day holiday is coming. Let's have a good holiday."

Seeing that Xiao Yu was quite disappointed with the experimental results, the technician who came to report didn't know what to say. He just nodded and left.

In the next few days, the National Day holiday arrived as scheduled, and everyone took a holiday to rest. Only a few people on duty were at their posts. These people found that their boss gave employees a holiday, but they were still working on the front line and stayed in the experimental center during the short holiday.

"It's rare to find a boss like this." An employee on duty saw Xiao Yu still in the laboratory tinkering with room-temperature superconductivity research, and he was immediately in awe. The boss's tall and noble image emerged spontaneously in his mind.

I have to say that Xiao Yu's acting skills are getting better and better, and the Oscars definitely owe him an award.

The staff on duty could not notice anything unusual and just thought that their boss was too obsessed with room-temperature superconducting materials.

Time passed day by day, and more than half of the National Day holiday was over.

On the evening of October 10, an employee on duty came to Xiao Yu's laboratory and saw his boss still busy at the high-energy laser array. He couldn't help but say, "Boss Xiao, it's almost dawn."

Xiao Yu said without even turning his head: "Don't worry about me, you should leave work when it's time to leave. I feel that the plan for re-optimization and fine-tuning today is very promising."

The staff on duty couldn't help but complain when they heard this: You said the same thing a few times before, but what happened? It was still a waste of time.

Seeing the boss like this, I felt like he was possessed. I didn’t know what to say for a moment, and then I went home.

"Finally they left..." Xiao Yu was the only one left in the laboratory. Finally, he didn't have to pretend anymore. To be honest, it was very tiring. It was okay to pretend for a day or two, but it would be tiring if he did it for more than a month.

But it is not enough not to pretend, and we have to pretend in front of others to see it, so that others will believe that room-temperature superconducting materials are really synthesized here.

At that time, these people will be witnesses.

At this moment, Xiao Yu pulled the switch in the laboratory to discharge the electricity, the ultra-high energy laser array started to operate, and electrical energy was consumed crazily again.

Xiao Yu came to the experimental data analysis table and sat down comfortably. He took out a small object from his pocket. As soon as he let go of his hand, the object quickly floated upwards. This small object turned out to be a piece of room-temperature superconducting material produced in the Blue Star world.

It does not rely on any external force, but can be suspended solely by the earth's planetary magnetic field, which shows how powerful this material is.

It is floating up rapidly at this moment, and will continue to float up until it reaches the balance point value, and then it will stay in the air.

This piece of superconducting material is not large and can be grasped directly by human power. If it is large enough or the planet's magnetic field is strong enough, it can theoretically lift a person up. Of course, if the magnetic field strength reaches this level, the person himself will be suspended.

Xiao Yu quickly grabbed the room-temperature superconducting material floating upwards, and then placed it on a special base that could change the magnetic field value in a small range to constrain the superconducting material.

This small stone was seen floating motionless at a height of 7 centimeters above the base. This material had been processed on Blue Star and was not a natural superconducting ore. Natural superconducting ore also contained many other impurities.

This piece has been refined, and the whole material has not been mixed with other substances.

When it appears on Earth, it is a new material synthesized in a laboratory, so naturally there cannot be other substances that should not appear.

Time passed by minute by minute, and Xiao Yu was waiting silently.

It was not until the next morning that Xiao Yu, who had stayed up all night, stared at the surveillance video displayed on the panel of his mobile phone that he finally saw the employee on duty come to work.

There is one last scene left to be performed.

Xiao Yu got into the state without saying a word, laughing excitedly: "Hahaha, I found it, I found it, room-temperature superconductivity, it's done!" The employee on duty happened to come and heard the boss's excited laughter. He was very surprised and quickly rushed to the laboratory.

"Boss, what are you doing..." The employee on duty who arrived first stared at Xiao Yu's excited laughter, and soon a few more employees came over.

At this moment, Xiao Yu didn't show any trace of acting at all. When he saw the employees rushing over, he grabbed the room-temperature superconducting material floating on the base and said excitedly: "It's done, room-temperature superconducting material, it's done, hahahaha!"

Xiao Yu immediately put the room-temperature superconducting material in his hand on the ground and then let go.

Everyone present witnessed with their own eyes that the piece of material on the ground immediately floated up the moment Xiao Yu let go, without the help of any external force, without the help of ultra-high pressure or ultra-low temperature.

It floated rapidly upwards, heading towards the ceiling of the laboratory.

Just when the material floated to the height of Xiao Yu's shoulders, he grabbed it in his hand.

At this moment, everyone present was stunned, their jaws dropping in shock. The first person to come to his senses exclaimed, "Waldma, room temperature superconducting materials have really been synthesized? Am I dreaming???"

Another technician was so shocked that he couldn't control his emotions and blurted out: "Fuck!"

Immediately, everyone was in an uproar. They stared at the material in Xiao Yu's hand. At this moment, they were even more excited than Xiao Yu.

After a while, Xiao Yu, who showed no signs of acting, looked at the material in his hand, then looked at everyone present and said, "Do you know what the emergence of room-temperature superconducting materials means?"

"It means that the dream that scientists have been pursuing for more than a hundred years has come true today! It means that superconducting materials have refreshed their critical temperature! It means that mankind has entered a new era of room-temperature superconductivity! It means that the door to the new world of physics has been opened!"

Of course they knew this. The material in the boss's hand was a new material that was enough to trigger human civilization into the fourth technological revolution.

Superconductivity has a wide range of applications.

For example, in high-voltage applications, superconductors in a zero-resistance state can carry extremely high current density without any energy loss caused by heat. They have extremely wide applications in power systems, including high-density and low-loss power transmission, superconducting motors, superconducting energy storage, and various power equipment such as superconducting transformers, current limiters, and conversion joints.

The use of superconductivity is not limited to the fields of strong electricity and strong magnetism, but is also extremely widely used in weak electricity. Based on the zero resistance effect of superconductors, a superconducting microbridge can be simply designed as a switch, which can generate a voltage signal once the zero resistance is destroyed.

Superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors use this principle. Superconductors are etched into extremely narrow nanowire arrays. Even if only one photon is absorbed, it is enough to form a hot spot signal that spreads on the nanowire, resulting in a voltage at both ends.

Superconducting single-photon detectors are the most sensitive photoelectric detection devices, with a detection efficiency of over 98%, far greater than the efficiency of semiconductor photon detectors of around 30%.

Laser ranging technology based on superconducting single-photon detectors has extremely high accuracy and can achieve centimeter-level resolution on the Earth-Moon distance scale of 38 kilometers.

In addition, it can also demonstrate its prowess in the field of quantum computers. The feasible solutions for realizing quantum computers include optical quantum computing, ion trap quantum computing, nuclear magnetic resonance quantum computing, and superconducting quantum computing.

Superconducting quantum computing is the fastest developing and iterating technology. The core of superconducting quantum computing lies in the superconducting quantum chip, which is composed of multiple superconducting quantum bits and error correction units coupled together. The key point is that its processing technology is basically compatible with current semiconductor technology.

Including the current superconducting tokamak device controlled nuclear fusion technology, all require the use of superconducting materials.

Finally, Xiao Yu looked around at everyone and said solemnly: "This is a serious matter. Don't let the news spread. Remember it, keep your mouth shut. If anyone leaks it without my permission, I don't mind sending him to work on the sewing machine."

When everyone saw Xiao Yu so serious, they came back to their senses from their excitement and nodded repeatedly.

Of course they knew what explosive news it would be and what a sensational effect it would have if it were announced to the public.

Next, Xiao Yu directly sealed off the laboratory and strictly controlled all material data. No one could enter the laboratory door without his permission because it was controlled by AI, which only accepted Xiao Yu's authorization.

The others also understood Xiao Yu's strictness. The more they knew about what the emergence of room-temperature superconducting materials meant, the more they felt that no control was too strict. This was definitely a top-secret technology. Everyone present was well aware of the value of the words "technological revolution."

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(End of this chapter)