The working principle of the immersive lithography machine was simple. In fact, it was to add a layer of water in the middle of the dry lithography machine, and then use the refraction of light to increase the working precision of the dry lithography machine, which had already reached its limit, by more than ten times.
To put it simply, it was … Well, to hell with the working principle. They didn't need to understand it, they only needed to know that the world's first immersive lithography machine was now working.
Although it was only a half-finished product, there was no doubt that it was creating history.
However, the process of creating history was quite boring, because the whole process was very slow, about 20 minutes.
The process itself was even more boring. Looking at it with the naked eye, in fact, one could only see a ray of light. The whole engraving process could not be seen at all unless it was through a special instrument.
However, there was only one such instrument, and it was in the hands of Ni Guangnan. Boss Jia could only see a ray of light, and there was no change for 20 minutes. Boss Jia couldn't even know how the experiment was going.
Of course, as time went by, Boss Jia gradually found clues, because the expressions of the researchers in the laboratory, who were originally in high spirits, became gloomy, and their faces were full of disappointment and pain.
There was no doubt that this experiment, which was destined to go down in history, ended in failure.
Well, it seemed that Boss Jia's protagonist aura didn't work this time.
"What happened?" After Ni Guangnan and Lin Benjian came out together, Boss Jia immediately went up and asked.
"The whole monocrystalline silicon was destroyed!" Ni Guangnan sighed and said, "There was nothing engraved on it, not even a transistor. It was all chaotic, we failed!"
"I thought it was a big deal, failure is the mother of success, this is nothing!" Boss Jia smiled and comforted him.
Although the failure was a little disappointing, Boss Jia still had a lot of time and money, so there was no hurry!
"In fact, we have failed thousands of times, but this time is different!" Ni Guangnan's expression was even worse, and the word "confusion" was written on his wrinkled face.
Of course, Boss Jia knew that the failure this time would be very bad. Since Ni Guangnan had excitedly invited him to watch the experiment, it meant that Ni Guangnan and the others were at least 90% sure that the experiment would succeed. Otherwise, there was no reason for them to call him, the big boss, over.
Could it be that he wanted to watch them lose face?
However, the reality was that the experiment had failed. This was undoubtedly a huge blow to Ni Guangnan and the others.
"Most importantly, we can't find the reason for our failure!" Lin Benjian said, "We have calculated everything. There is no problem with all the data. I even thought that we had a 99% success rate, but we failed. We don't even know the reason for our failure!"
"I see …" Boss Jia smiled. "Just because we can't find it now doesn't mean we can't find it in the future. Maybe some data calculation was wrong, or maybe there was dust. Anything is possible, isn't it?"
"You're spouting nonsense!" Ni Guangnan rolled his eyes. "Forget it. We have embarrassed ourselves. You are fine now. You can go back to being the big boss and work on your Golden Dragon Award!"
"Don't. I just got here. Don't chase me away. I should at least take a look at the experiment record before I leave!" Boss Jia said helplessly.
"Why are you looking at the experiment records? I'm afraid that you won't even be able to understand the basic public announcement …" Ni Guangnan was halfway through his sentence when he suddenly became mute. He suddenly remembered that this student of Boss Jia's was not taken in through the back door. He was a genuine disciple who had passed the examination.
Boss Jia was actually a super genius who was no less than Liu Nian. Boss Jia was even the one who discovered graphene. However, this guy's achievements in the business world were so dazzling that he had forgotten that Boss Jia was also a genius scientist.
"Then you can take a look. Maybe we're missing a skunk like you!" Ni Guangnan nodded. Then, he led Boss Jia into a change of clothes and re-entered the laboratory.
At this time, many people in the laboratory had left. When they saw Boss Jia changing his clothes, they were curious and came back in.
Boss Jia walked straight to the experimental equipment and saw the piece of monocrystalline silicon used for the experiment. Then, he directly used an electric microscope to observe the shape of this monocrystalline silicon.
Just as Ni Guangnan said, although there were many lines engraved on this piece of monocrystalline silicon, all of the lines were irregular, like messy wool.
It was not like a qualified chip, which would have identical transistors engraved on it one after another.
Most people would conclude that the experiment had failed when they first saw this piece of monocrystalline silicon. However, Boss Jia took a long time, about five minutes, to carefully observe the shape of the whole monocrystalline silicon pile, as well as the lines on it, and at the same time, constantly measuring the data.
"What, this guy actually found something?" Seeing Boss Jia's state of concentration, Ni Guangnan was a little surprised.
The surrounding researchers were also very surprised. This Chairman Jia was actually so good at pretending. He just had to pretend to look at it, why did he have to be so serious?
Pretending as if he could understand it, what was the point?
Of course, although these researchers muttered in their hearts, on the surface, they still looked at Boss Jia with admiration and respect. After all, he was the one who paid, and they were the ones who worked.
"How is it, what's the result?" When Boss Jia finally moved his gaze away from the electron microscope, Ni Guangnan asked curiously.
"Of course, I have a huge discovery!" Boss Jia laughed.
"What huge discovery?" Ni Guangnan asked in surprise.
"That is, in fact, our experiment did not fail, our experiment was a success!" Boss Jia opened his mouth and said, "Congratulations, my teacher, you have made history by successfully using immersion lithography technology to create a 70-nanometer chip!"
"Are you kidding me?" Ni Guangnan heard this and wished that there was a ruler in his hand, so that he could viciously hit Boss Jia's palm. This guy actually dared to fool his teacher.
"I'm not kidding you!" Boss Jia pointed at the image of the optical microscope and said, "I just made a measurement. Although none of the transistors were successfully engraved, all the lines are 70-nanometer."
"This means that we have succeeded. We can engrave 70-nanometer lines on monocrystalline silicon. It's just that we still lack a little bit of control over the lines!"
"You are twisting words …" Ni Guangnan originally wanted to accuse Boss Jia of twisting words and forcing logic, but after Boss Jia's words, Ni Guangnan realized that Boss Jia seemed to be right. The 70-nanometer level was indeed achieved. The biggest obstacle for the dry lithography machine had been broken through. The only problem they encountered was that they could not control the lines!
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