Chapter 927: Carbon-based chips come out! (Tue / Thu)

Since receiving the email from Professor Wu, although people are still meeting in Beijing, Lu Zhou ’s thoughts have already flown to Jinling, which is eighteen thousand miles away.
On the day the conference ended, Lu Zhou, who had just delivered his closing speech at the closing ceremony, rushed to the Capital Airport and took a plane to leave Beijing and return to Jinling.
As soon as the plane landed, Lu Zhou, who had left the airport, couldn't even take his luggage home, and he let Wang Peng drive him directly to the Jinling Institute of Advanced Research.
He rushed to the carbon-based semiconductor laboratory nonstop. When Lu Zhou's forefoot just stepped into the gate, Professor Wu Tianqun was carrying his students and researchers around the experimental equipment.
When he saw Lu Zhou appearing at the door, Professor Wu apparently froze for a second, and said in surprise.
"Academician Lu? You have already ... returned from Shanghai?"
If he remembered correctly, I saw the big man coming in the news broadcast live broadcast in the morning ...
"As soon as we arrived in Jinling, we couldn't wait to come over," said Lu Jian, looking at the experimental equipment behind him, and then asked, "I didn't disturb your experiment?"
"No, no," Professor Wu Tianqun shook his head and said with a smile, "The experiment has just been completed, and we are collecting experimental data. You will not have much influence at this time."
"Just don't disturb your experiment," Lu Zhou nodded, and then couldn't wait to ask, "What about that carbon-based chip? I'm aiming at it."
Hearing Lu Zhou's question about this, Professor Wu Tianqun showed a real expression on his face and said with a smile.
"The Tan Jing chip is in the laboratory next to it. For security reasons, I locked it in the sample cabinet. Please come with me!"
After ordering his research work to his students, Professor Wu Tianqun took the landing boat 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 to unlock the cabinet, then put on gloves, and carefully took out a palm-sized brown glassware from the sample cabinet.
"Because it is a carbon material, this chip is more sensitive to strong light sources. I will save it here. Would you like to see it?"
Staring at the brown-colored glassware for a while, looking at the thumb-sized chip quietly lying in the card slot in the center of the container, Lu Zhou said, "You don't need to open it, you and I can simply say, "
"Ok!"
After clearing his throat, Professor Wu Tianqun introduced Lu Zhou's technical details to Lu Zhou with concise words.
As the name implies, carbon-based chips are naturally processors that inherit carbon-based transistors. According to Professor Wu Tianqun, this tiny carbon-based chip contains 100,000 carbon nanotube transistors.
Although there are still many gaps in this number compared to silicon-based chips with hundreds of millions of startups, this chip can already perform some not very complicated mathematical operations like ordinary computer chips.
After learning the news, Lu Zhou was excited for a moment.
Samples of carbon-based chips have been born!
what does this mean?
This means that Professor Wu Tianqun's research team has successfully achieved a quantum leap from carbon-based transistors to carbon-based chips!
This means that the first strategic goal of China ’s fifth largest semiconductor industry group has seen the dawn of victory!
"... At present, we have imitated the published chip design scheme and have been able to make the chip to 150nm process. Although there is still a certain distance from mature commercial chips, it has demonstrated far superiority in computing speed, energy consumption and heat generation. To the superiority of traditional 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 uses a method of" chemical deposition + etching "similar to SG-1 normal temperature superconducting material. We will no longer be technically limited by the accuracy of photolithography. Theoretically, there is still a lot of room for improvement in this method! We are currently looking for ways to further reduce 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 increase the process technology to more than 10nm, this chip can be commercialized! And the superiority of this carbon-based chip in its physical properties , It will be impossible for silicon-based chips to compare! "
Lu Zhou: "How difficult is mass production?"
Professor Wu Tianqun: "Isn't production higher than silicon-based chips! As for the cost, although it is a little more expensive, it is completely acceptable considering the cost performance!"
Lu Zhou couldn't help but admire: "Good job! Professor Wu, you have done a great job!"
Hearing Lu Zhou's words, Professor Wu Tianqun smiled embarrassedly.
"Where's the matter, if it weren't for your two papers published in" Nature "that provided the theoretical basis for this technical route, and the SG-1 room temperature superconducting material from Jinling Institute of Advanced Research, I would not have made No carbon-based transistor is even more likely to break the carbon-chip chip. "
"Okay, here are the two of us, don't let each other do this business," Lu Zhou smiled, then changed his expression of seriousness, and continued, "About these research results, please write two reports, one You do n’t need to bring specific technical details, you can simply talk about the results. The other one has to bother you to think a bit, except that you do n’t need to follow the format of the paper, basically follow the model of the paper and write the The technical details are written down and will be used when registering a patent.
After listening to Lu Zhou's instructions, Professor Wu nodded seriously and said.
"Okay, I'll get ready in a while. When do you need it?"
Lu Zhou: "This is not urgent, just give it to me within a week, or if you are too busy, it can be a few days later, or your experiment is the main thing."
Professor Wu said with a smile: "It doesn't matter, this thing does not delay the experiment, I promise you will definitely see it within a week."
Lu Zhou nodded: "Please, please, I won't interrupt your work here ~ EbookFREE.me ~ I have seen the chip, and I have finished explaining the things that should be explained, Lu Zhou is planning to leave the laboratory , But at this moment suddenly remembered something, so he turned around and watched Professor Wu Tianqun say.
"By the way, the Central Committee will set up an expert group on the feasibility demonstration of topological quantum computing technology. I recommend your name."
Although it was only an understatement, listening to Professor Wu Tianqun's ears set off a stormy sea in his heart.
Expert group for technical feasibility demonstration established by the Central Committee!
No matter what is to be demonstrated, if the first two words bring the center, it must be a ox at or above the academician level to enter this threshold, or at least the academic leader in a certain field must have the right to speak.
I am just a professor, and at most I have the title of Yangtze River scholar. If it is normal, I want to join such an expert group to do a technical feasibility study of the key technologies that can affect the national strategic direction. Basically, impossible.
Taking a deep breath, looking at Lu Zhou standing at the door, Professor Wu said gratefully.
"Thank you for your promotion!"
Although he is much older than him, it feels strange to say this sentence, but it is really what he feels at this moment.
Being able to enter such a group of experts will be very helpful for his future academic journey, both from the perspective of broadening the network and from the perspective of academic qualifications itself!
Looking at Professor Wu with a touch on his face, Lu Zhou said with a smile.
"Don't thank me."
"Moreover, this is not my promotion, but you have won it through your own efforts and dedication."
"If you have to thank them, thank you for the sweat you paid."