Chapter 928: Carbon-Based Chips Come Out! (2/4)

Chapter 928: Carbon-based chips come out! (twenty four)

Since receiving the email from Professor Wu, although people are still in the meeting here in Shangjing, Lu Zhou's thoughts have already flown to Jinling, which is hundreds of thousands of miles away.

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, left Shangjing by plane and returned to Jinling.

As soon as the plane landed, Lu Zhou who left the airport didn't even bother to put his luggage home, so he asked Wang Peng to drive him directly to the Jinling Institute for Advanced Study without saying a word.

He rushed to the Carbon-Based Semiconductor Laboratory without stopping. When Lu Zhou just stepped into the gate, Professor Wu Tianqun was leading his students and researchers busy in front of an experimental equipment.

When he saw Lu Zhou appearing at the door, Professor Wu was obviously stunned for a second, and said in surprise.

"Academician Lu? You have... come back from Shangjing?"

If he remembers correctly, he saw this big guy on the live broadcast of the News Network in the morning...

"I just arrived in Jinling, so I couldn't wait to come here," said Lu Zhou concisely. He glanced at the experimental equipment behind him, and then asked, "I didn't disturb your experiment, did I?"

"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 influence."

"It's good that you don't disturb your experiment," Lu Zhou nodded, and then asked impatiently, "Where's the carbon-based chip? I'm here for it."

Hearing Lu Zhou's question about this matter, Professor Wu Tianqun showed a genuine expression on his face and said with a smile.

"The carbon-based chip is in the laboratory next to it. For safety reasons, I locked it in the sample cabinet, please come with me!"

After instructing his students on the research work, Professor Wu Tianqun took Lu Zhou out of the door and came to the laboratory next to him.

Walking to a sample cabinet that looked like a safe, Professor Wu skillfully took out the key and unlocked the cabinet, then put on gloves, and carefully took out a palm-sized brown glass vessel from the sample cabinet.

"Because it's made of carbon material, this kind of chip is more sensitive to strong light sources, so I'll keep it here, would you like to see it?"

Staring at the brown glass container for a while, looking at the thumbnail-sized chip lying quietly in the slot in the center of the container, Lu Zhou said: "Open it and look at it, you don't need it, just tell me briefly, "

"OK!"

After clearing his throat, Professor Wu Tianqun introduced the technical details of the chip to Lu Zhou in concise words.

As the name suggests, a carbon-based chip is naturally a processor that inherits carbon-based transistors. According to Professor Wu Tianqun's description, this small carbon-based chip contains 100,000 carbon nanotube transistors.

Although there is still a large gap in this number compared to silicon-based chips that start at hundreds of millions, this chip can already perform some not very complicated mathematical operations like ordinary computer chips.

After learning the news, Lu Zhou was suddenly excited.

Samples of carbon-based chips have been born!

what does that mean?

This means that Professor Wu Tianqun's research team has successfully achieved a breakthrough from carbon-based transistors to carbon-based chips!

This means that the first strategic goal of Huaguo's fifth largest semiconductor industry group has seen the dawn of victory!

"...At present, we have been able to make the chip with a 150nm process according to the chip design scheme that has been disclosed. Although there is still a certain gap from mature commercial chips, it has already shown far superior performance in terms of computing speed, energy consumption and heat generation. superiority over conventional silicon-based chips."

After a pause, Professor Wu Tianqun suppressed the excitement in his voice and continued.

"And the most important thing is that this chip adopts the 'chemical deposition + etching' preparation method similar to the SG-1 room temperature superconducting material, and we will no longer be technically limited by the precision of photolithography technology. And in In theory, 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."

"As long as we can achieve more than 30 million transistors per square millimeter and improve the process technology to more than 10nm, this kind of chip can be commercialized! And this carbon-based chip is superior in its own physical properties , will be incomparable to silicon-based chips anyway!"

Lu Zhou: "What about the difficulty of mass production?"

Professor Wu Tianqun: "The difficulty of production will not be higher than that of silicon-based chips! As for the cost, although it is a bit more expensive, it is completely acceptable considering the cost performance!"

Lu Zhou couldn't help admiring: "Good job! Professor Wu, you have made a great contribution!"

Hearing Lu Zhou's words, Professor Wu Tianqun smiled embarrassedly.

"What's the matter, if it weren't for your two papers published in "Nature" that provided a theoretical basis for this technical route, and the SG-1 room temperature superconducting material of the Jinling Institute for Advanced Study, I would not be able to make What kind of carbon-based transistors, let alone conquer the barrier of carbon-based chips."

"Okay, it's just the two of us here, so don't brag about each other so commercially," Lu Zhou smiled, then put on a serious expression, and continued, "About these research results, please write two reports. You don’t need to bring specific technical details, just talk about the results. The other one needs to trouble you to pay more attention. Except that you don’t need to follow the format of the paper, it basically follows the paper’s model and writes what should be written. All the technical details are written, which will be used when registering the patent.

After listening to Lu Zhou's instructions, Professor Wu nodded seriously and said.

"Okay, I'll prepare it in a while, when will you need it?"

Lu Zhou: "It's not urgent, just give it to me within a week, or a few days later if you're too busy, it's still about your experiment."

Professor Wu said with a smile: "It's okay, this thing will not delay the experiment, I promise you will see it within a week."

Lu Zhou nodded: "Then please, I won't disturb your work here."

The chip has been seen, and the things that should be explained are also explained. Lu Zhou was about to leave the laboratory, but at this moment he suddenly remembered something, so he turned around again, looked at Professor Wu Tianqun and said.

"By the way, after a while, the central government will set up an expert group on the feasibility demonstration of topological quantum computing technology. I recommended your name."

Although it was just an understatement, in the ears of Professor Wu Tianqun, it caused a storm in his heart.

The technical feasibility demonstration expert group established by the central government!

No matter what it is to demonstrate, as long as the first two words include the central, it must be a big cow at the academician level or above to step into this threshold, at least it must be an academic leader in a certain field to have the right to speak.

I am just a mere professor, and at most I have the title of Changjiang scholar. Under normal circumstances, if I want to join such an expert group and do technical feasibility demonstrations of key technologies that can affect the country's strategic direction, it is basically a impossible.

Taking a deep breath, looking at Lu Zhou standing at the door, Professor Wu said in a grateful tone.

"Thank you for your promotion!"

Although I was much older than him, it always felt weird to say this, but it was indeed what he was thinking at this moment.

Being able to enter such an expert group will be of great help to his academic career in the future, no matter from the perspective of broadening his network or from the perspective of academic qualifications!

Looking at the moved Professor Wu, Lu Zhou smiled and said.

"You don't have to thank me."

"What's more, this is not my promotion, but your own hard work and dedication to get it."

"If you must thank you, thank you for your sweat."