Ever since he received Professor Wu's email, even though he was still in Beijing, Lu Zhou's mind had already flown to Jinling.
On the day of the conference's conclusion, Lu Zhou, who had just delivered a closing speech, rushed to the airport and flew back to Jinling.
As soon as the plane landed, Lu Zhou left the airport. He didn't even have time to pack his luggage at home. Without hesitation, he asked Wang Peng to drive him to the Jinling Institute for Advanced Study.
When Lu Zhou arrived at the carbon-based semiconductor laboratory, he saw Professor Wu Tianqun and his students and researchers working in front of a piece of experimental equipment.
When Professor Wu saw Lu Zhou at the door, he paused for a second and spoke in surprise.
"Academician Lu? You're … back from Beijing? "
If he remembered correctly, he had seen this big boss on the live broadcast of the news this morning …
"I just arrived in Jinling, and I couldn't wait to come over," Lu Zhou said. He looked at the experimental equipment behind him and asked, "I'm not interrupting your experiment, right?"
"No, no." Professor Wu Tianqun shook his head and said, "The experiment has just been completed. We're currently collecting experimental data, so you won't make a big difference."
"I'm glad I didn't interrupt your experiment." Lu Zhou nodded and asked, "Where's the carbon-based chip? I'm here for it. "
When Professor Wu Tianqun heard Lu Zhou ask about this, he smiled and spoke.
"The Tan Jing chip is in the laboratory next door. For safety reasons, I locked it in the sample cabinet. Please come with me!"
After Professor Wu Tianqun delegated the research work to his students, he walked out the door with Lu Zhou and went to the laboratory next door.
Professor Wu walked next to a sample cabinet that looked like a safe. He skillfully took out a key and unlocked the cabinet. He then put on gloves and carefully took out a palm-sized brown glassware from the sample cabinet.
"Because it's made of carbon, this kind of chip is sensitive to strong light, so I stored it in here. Do you want to take a look?"
Lu Zhou stared at the brown glassware for a while. He looked at the thumbnail-sized chip lying quietly in the center of the container and said, "You don't have to open it, just tell me about it."
"Okay!"
Professor Wu Tianqun cleared his throat and explained the technical details of this chip to Lu Zhou.
As the name suggested, carbon-based chips were naturally processors that inherited carbon-based transistors. According to Professor Wu Tianqun's description, this small carbon-based chip contained 100,000 carbon nanotube transistors.
Even though there was still a big gap between this number and the silicon-based chip, it could perform some simple mathematical operations like an ordinary computer chip.
After hearing this news, Lu Zhou suddenly felt a burst of excitement.
The carbon-based chip sample had been born!
What did this mean?
This meant that Professor Wu Tianqun's research team had successfully achieved a breakthrough from carbon-based transistors to carbon-based chips!
This meant that the first strategic goal of China's fifth-largest semiconductor industry group was close to victory!
"… So far, we have copied the publicly available chip design and have been able to achieve a 150n process. Even though it's still far from a mature commercial chip, it has shown its advantages over traditional silicon-based chips in terms of computing speed, energy consumption, and heating."
Professor Wu Tianqun paused for a second and spoke with excitement in his voice.
"Most importantly, this chip uses a 'chemical deposition + etching' preparation method similar to the SG-1 superconducting material. We are no longer limited by the precision of photolithography. Also, in theory, there is a lot of room for improvement! We are currently looking for ways to further reduce the chip production process and increase the number of transistors per square millimeter.
"As long as we can increase the number of transistors per square millimeter to more than 30 million and increase the process technology to more than 10n, this chip can be commercialized! Also, this kind of carbon-based chip is superior to silicon-based chips in terms of physical performance! "
Lu Zhou: "What about the difficulty of mass production?"
Professor Wu Tianqun: "The production difficulty is higher than silicon-based chips! As for the cost, even though it's a bit more expensive, it's completely acceptable! "
Lu Zhou couldn't help but praise him. "Nicely done! Professor Wu, you've done a great job! "
When Professor Wu Tianqun heard Lu Zhou's words, he smiled awkwardly.
"Of course not. If it weren't for your two Nature theses, which provided the theoretical foundation for this technical route, and the SG-1 superconducting material at the Jinling Institute for Advanced Study, I wouldn't have been able to make carbon-based transistors, let alone carbon-based chips."
"Okay, it's just the two of us here, there's no need to flatter each other." Lu Zhou smiled and put on a serious expression as he said, "About these research results, please write two reports. One report doesn't need to include specific technical details, just a simple summary of the results will be fine. The other report, you have to put more effort into it. You don't have to follow the format of the thesis, but you have to follow the style of the thesis. Write down all the technical details, which will be used for patent registration.
After hearing Lu Zhou's instructions, Professor Wu nodded seriously and spoke.
"Okay, I'll prepare it in a bit. When do you need it?"
Lu Zhou said, "There's no rush, just give it to me in a week, or a few days later if you're too busy. Focus on your experiment."
Professor Wu smiled and said, "That's fine, this won't delay the experiment. I promise you'll see it in a week."
Lu Zhou nodded and said, "Then I'll leave it to you, I won't disturb your work."
Lu Zhou was about to leave the laboratory, but he suddenly remembered something. He turned around and looked at Professor Wu Tianqun.
"Oh yeah, the Communist Party of China is going to set up an expert group on topological quantum computing technology. I recommended your name to the group."
Although it was just an understatement, in Professor Wu Tianqun's ears, it set off a storm in his heart.
The Communist Party of China is going to set up a technical feasibility study group!
No matter what the topic was, as long as the topic was related to the central government, then it had to be an academician or above. At the very least, it had to be an academic leader in a certain field to have the right to speak.
He was just a professor with the title of Changjiang Scholar. Under normal circumstances, it was basically impossible for him to join such an expert group to do the technical feasibility demonstration of key technologies that could affect the strategic direction of the country.
Professor Wu took a deep breath and looked at Lu Zhou standing at the door. He spoke in a grateful tone.
"Thank you for your recommendation!"
Even though Lu Zhou was much older than Lu Zhou, it felt weird to say these words. However, this was how he felt at the moment.
Being able to enter such an expert group, whether it was from the perspective of broadening one's network or from the perspective of academic qualifications itself, it would be of great help to his future academic career!
Lu Zhou looked at Professor Wu and spoke with a smile.
"No need to thank me.
"Not to mention, this isn't my recommendation, it's your own hard work.
"If you have to thank me, thank you for your hard work."
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