Scholar’s Advanced Technological System

The carbon-based microchip has been completed!

This is probably the best news Lu Zhou has heard over the past few days.

After being amazed for a while, he did not hesitate, and immediately let Yang Xu take himself to the Institute of Computational Materials to find the laboratory where the carbon-based microchip project team is located.

When the two arrived in the lab, the lab was quite quiet.

A group of researchers with some dangerous hairline lines are beside a test facility with about two people, and one of the researchers carefully debugs what.

Did not go up to disturb them, Lu Zhou took Yang Xu at the door and waited for a while.

Soon, the amazing voice gradually spread from the crowd.

Looking at the excited expressions on the faces of the researchers, Lu Zhou could guess without asking, they should have found something unfinished.

Something is anxious, Yang Xu looked toward Lu Zhou.

“Let’s go.”

Lu Zhou nodded.

“Ah.”

Bypassing a lot of experimental equipment into the lab, when the two were approaching the experimental equipment, the researchers finally found Lu Zhou and Yang Xu.

Standing in the crowd, a middle-aged man who seemed to be very academic, with a surprised expression on his face, quickly went forward.

“Yang Yangchang? Lu Dean?”

“This is the person in charge of the project,” knowing that Lu Zhou was the first to see this, Yang Xu skillfully introduced him to him, “Wu Tianqun Professor.”

“Professor Wu, hello.”

“Hello, hello,” flattered Lu Zhou’s right hand, Professor Wu swayed enthusiastically. “Academician, how come you personally?”

“I heard that the experiment has a result, Yang Xu took me over,” loosened his hand and looked at the device in the crowd. Lu Zhou laughed and asked, “Is it finished?”

The waist is quite straight, said Professor Wu red light across the whole face.

“This is a repetitive experiment, and the first experiment was successful yesterday!”

Lu Zhou immediately said: “Do you show me the aspect?”

Professor Wu immediately made a gesture of asking.

“Please come with me!”

Producing a microchip is quite complicated. Using silicon wafers as a substrate, stacking layers of reticle up and stacking them like a pile of Lego toys will eventually get a complete microchip.

This may sound easy, but considering that these “toys” are all nm-scale, and this also includes complex IC design and lithography, etc. It’s a cloud-like technology. The ability to produce a microchip that meets market expectations has become an important indicator of the basis of a country’s electronics industry.

Not to mention what this means for a country or a company, to discuss this issue from a technical perspective.

In CMOS processes, the feature size typically represents the width of the “gate”, which is the channel length of the MOS device. In general, the smaller the feature size, the higher the integration of the chip, the better the performance, and the lower the power consumption.

However, this size cannot be reduced indefinitely.

First, the silicon atoms have their own width, and the tunneling effect in a quantum mechanics will become more and more negligible as the line width shrinks. Under the combined effects of various factors, the future of the silicon-based microchip is severely limited. .

However, human pursuit of new technology is eternal.

Since silicon-based microchips don’t work, they can open up new battlefields on other materials that may work.

According to the latest research, the use of materials such as carbon nanotubes and molybdenum disulfide has opened up a new path for Microchip’s process to continue to improve, allowing people to see the dawn of continuing Moore’s Law.

However, the situation is not always so optimistic.

Although these two materials have the potential to replace silicon-based microchips, they have been unable to break through the most critical bottleneck because of their respective shortcomings and the research institutions that have studied silicon-based microchips instead of materials in the world.

That is, using these two groundbreaking materials, we successfully made the most essential component of microchip – transistor!

As early as the study of graphene superconducting materials, Lu Zhou discovered two single-layer graphenes that overlap at a particular angle and will exhibit the characteristics of the Mott insulator in special cases.

This major discovery not only directly led to the explosive breakthrough of carbon-based superconducting materials, but also laid the foundation for the success of the Pangu controllable fusion reactor.

Not only that, but Lu Zhou was keenly aware that this feature could not only be applied in the field of superconductivity, but would also play an unexpected role in the semiconductor field.

Of course, he does not understand the semiconductor industry very well, but makes such judgments based on academic intuition.

At that time, he was originally planning to bring the partner of the Baosheng Group to invest in the project, but unfortunately, Sun Manager felt that the project was not very reliable. As a subsidiary of the China Airlines Group, he was not that big. The decision-making power, so the Tai Chi was pushed off.

However, Lu Zhou did not care about it. There was no shortage of money. There was no shortage of people. The third did not care about the loss. After returning to China, he pulled a research and development team and hanged it under the calculation materials research institute. It’s up.

From the establishment of the project to the present, it has been two or three years since it was counted, and finally saw the dawn of dawn.

Standing next to the experimental equipment, the transistor that the carbon-based microchip project team completed was observed through a microscope. After a long time, Lu Zhou couldn’t help but send out a feeling.

“Pretty……”

Although its raw material is dark graphite, it is stripped into graphene fragments, and after layering it into transistors, it is like a delicate diamond, which exudes a brilliant brilliance in the image presented by the microscope.

Yang Xu, standing next to him, couldn’t help it anymore. Seeing Lu Zhou, he opened his eyes from the eyepiece and quickly went forward.

“Let me come.”

Lu Zhou laughed to take a step to the side and gave the eyepiece to Yang Xu.

After looking at the eyepiece for a while, it took him about two minutes, and he gave a feeling.

“It’s really a price to use diamonds to describe it… I dare say that all the diamonds in this world add up, which is not as expensive as this one.”

Lu Zhou haha ​​laughed.

“That’s too exaggerated… but I agree with you, using diamonds to describe it really has fallen.”

If it takes this thing to the auction, even if it is enough to buy the price of a whole car diamond, there will be a large group of people willing to pay for it.

after all……

In this small carbon-based transistor, what is brewing is filled with the future of infinite imagination…

Looking back towards the researchers standing behind, Lu Zhou cleared his throat and said.

“As long as it can produce a carbon-based transistor, it is equivalent to breaking through the most critical bottleneck of carbon-based microchip technology! Although the size of our carbon-based transistor is still an order of magnitude smaller than the size of common silicon-based transistors on the market, it is carbon-based. The microchip made by the transistor is unimaginable in the theoretical minimum process, which is silicon-based microchip!”

How much is unimaginable, Lu Zhou is difficult to describe in words.

Only one after another point is certain that this great research has widened the lower limit of the microchip process to an order of magnitude!

It is no exaggeration to say that if Professor Wu intends to evaluate the academician, with this result, the next academician will be able to push him up when he arrives at Lu Zhou.

Even if it doesn’t work, I will definitely be able to wait for another session!

“Your work is very good!”

Looking at the group of inspiring researchers, looking at the Wu Tianqun Professor, who was red light across the whole face because of excitement and pride, Lu Zhou paused for a moment and continued in a solemn tone.

“Just today, right now, we have created history and redefine the future!”