Chapter 848

The carbon chip is finished!

This is probably the best news that land boat has heard in recent days.

After a while of surprise, he didn't hesitate to ask Yang Xu to take him to the Institute of computational materials and find the lab where the carbon based chip project team is located.

When the two arrived at the lab, it was quite quiet.

A group of dangerous researchers, surrounded by an experimental device about two people high, were carefully debugging something by one of them.

Without going up to disturb them, Lu Zhou pulls Yang Xu to wait at the door for a while.

Soon, the exclamation began to spread from the crowd.

Looking at the excited expression on the faces of the researchers, we can guess what they have found without asking.

Waiting for some anxious, Yang Xu looked to the land boat road.

"Let's go."

The boat nodded its head.

"Well."

Around a large number of experimental equipment into the laboratory, when the two were close to the experimental equipment, the group of researchers finally found Lu Zhou and Yang Xu.

Standing in the crowd, an academic looking middle-aged man, with a surprised expression on his face, hurried forward to the road.

"Director Yang? President Lu? "

"This is the person in charge of the project," Yang Xu said skillfully when he knew that it was the first time Lu Zhou met him. "Professor Wu Tianqun."

"Hello, Professor Wu."

"How do you do?" Professor Wu shook Lu Zhou's right hand warmly. "Academician Lu, why are you here in person?"

"I heard that the experiment had a result, Yang Xu pulled me over," released his hand, looked at the equipment in the crowd, and Lu Zhou smiled and asked, "it's finished?"

"The waist is very straight," said Professor Wu, blushing.

"This is a repeat experiment. The first experiment was successful yesterday!"

Lu Zhou immediately said, "can you show me something?"

Professor Wu made a gesture of invitation at once.

"Please follow me!"

It's a very complicated thing to produce a chip. With silicon wafer as the substrate, stack the light masks layer by layer up, like a pile of LEGO toys, and finally get a complete chip.

This may sound easy, but considering that these "toys" are all nm size, as well as the complex IC design and photolithography technology and so on, whether to produce a chip that meets the market expectation or not has almost become an important indicator to measure the basis of a national electronic industry.

Let's not talk about what this means for a country or an enterprise, just discuss this issue from the perspective of technology.

In CMOS process, the characteristic dimension is typically the gate width, that is, the channel length of MOS devices. Generally speaking, the smaller the feature size is, the higher the chip integration, the better the performance and the lower the power consumption.

However, this size cannot be cut down indefinitely.

First of all, silicon atom has its own width, and the tunneling effect in quantum mechanics will become more and more important with the reduction of the linewidth. Under the comprehensive effect of various factors, the future of silicon-based chips is seriously limited.

However, the pursuit of new technology is eternal.

Since silicon-based chips can't work, we can open up new battlefields on other possible materials.

According to the latest research, the application of carbon nanotubes, molybdenum disulfide and other materials has opened up a new way for the continuous improvement of the chip manufacturing process, so that people can 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 chips, due to their own defects, the research institutions around the world who study silicon-based chips instead of materials are slow to break through the most critical bottleneck.

That is to say, using these two pioneering materials, we have successfully made the most core component of the chip transistor!

As early as in the study of graphene superconductors, two pieces of graphene monolayers with special angle overlap were found in the ship, which will show the characteristics of Mott insulator in special cases.

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

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

Of course, he didn't know much about the semiconductor industry, but made such judgments out of academic intuition.

At that time, he had planned to pull the manager Sun of Baosheng Group, the partner, to invest in the project together. Unfortunately, manager Sun felt that the project was not reliable at that time, and as the manager of the subsidiary of China Airlines Group, he did not have such a big decision-making power, so he pushed it out.However, Lu Zhou didn't care. He didn't lack money, people or money. After returning home, he took a research and development team and hung it under the Research Institute of computational materials. He started the project himself.

It's been two or three years since the project was approved. At last, we see the dawn.

Standing next to the experimental equipment, I watched the transistor completed by the carbon based chip project team through a microscope. After a long time, the boat couldn't help sighing.

"Beautiful..."

Although its raw material is black graphite, it is peeled into pieces of graphene, and stacked into transistors layer by layer. Like a diamond with exquisite workmanship, it emits bright luster in the image presented by the microscope.

Yang Xu, who was standing by, could not help it for a long time. Seeing that Lu Zhou had moved his eyes away from his eyepiece, he hurried forward.

"Let me see, too."

Lu Zhou laughs and moves aside, giving Yang Xu his eyepiece.

After looking at the eyepiece for a while, it took about two minutes for him to express his emotion.

"To describe it as a diamond is a real bargain I dare say that all the diamonds in the world add up to nothing more valuable than this one. "

Lu Zhou laughs.

"That's too exaggerated But I agree with you. It's a bit cheaper to describe it as a diamond. "

If it takes this thing to auction, even if it calls out a high price enough to buy a whole car of diamonds, there will be a large group of people willing to pay for it.

After all

In this small carbon based transistor, the future is full of endless reverie

Looking back at the researchers standing behind him, Lu zhouqing cleared his throat and said.

"As long as we can make carbon based transistors, we will break through the most critical bottleneck of carbon based chip technology! Although the size of our carbon based transistor is still one order of magnitude behind the size of common silicon-based transistors on the market, the chip made of carbon based transistors is unimaginable in terms of theoretical minimum process! "

It's hard to describe how unimaginable a land boat is.

The only thing for sure is that this great research achievement will broaden the lower limit of chip process to a whole order of magnitude!

It is no exaggeration to say that if Professor Wu intends to comment on academicians, with this achievement, he can find a way to push him forward as soon as the next year of academician's election arrives in Luzhou.

Even if it doesn't work, it will work again!

"Your work is excellent!"

Looking at the group of excited researchers, looking at Professor Wu Tianqun, who is red with excitement and pride, Lu Zhou pauses for a moment, and continues in a solemn tone.

"Today, now, we have made history and redefined the future!"