Scholar’s Advanced Technological System

The carbon-based chip has been completed!

This is probably the best news the Ark has heard in the last few days.

After a while of surprise, he did not hesitate to take Yang Xu to the Institute of Computing Materials to find the laboratory where the carbon-based chip project team was located.

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

A group of dangerous researchers on the hairline, surrounded by an experimental device about two people tall, were carefully commissioned by one of the researchers.

Without going up to disturb them, the ark held Yang Xu and waited for a while at the door.

Soon, amazing voices spread from the crowd.

Looking at the excited look on the faces of the researchers, the ark could have guessed, without asking, what they should have discovered.

Some anxiety, Yang Xu looked to the Ark Road.

“Let's go. ”

The ark nodded down.

“Mmm.”

The group of researchers finally discovered the Ark and Yang Xu as they approached the lab, bypassing a lot of experimental equipment.

Standing in the crowd, a middle-aged man, who looked very academic, showed a surprised look on his face and hurried forward.

“Director Yang? Dean Lu? ”

“This is the person in charge of the project,” Yang Xu skillfully introduced him, ”said Professor Wu Tianqun. ”

“Professor Wu, hello. ”

“Hello,” Professor Wu shook enthusiastically holding the right hand of the ark with flattery, "Master Lu, how did you get here personally? ”

“I heard the results of the experiment, Yang Xu pulled me over.” Relaxed his hand and looked at the equipment in the crowd. The Ark boat laughed and asked, "It's done? ”

The waistplate was straightforward, Professor Wu said in a reddish light.

“This is a repeat experiment, the first one was successful yesterday! ”

The ark immediately said, "Show me? ”

Professor Wu immediately made a gesture.

“Please follow me! ”

Producing a chip is quite a complicated thing, using a silicon wafer as a substrate to superimpose a layer by layer mask and stack it like a Lego toy to finally get a complete chip.

This sounds easy, but considering that these “toys" are nm sized, and that they also contain sophisticated IC designs, light engraving processes, and so on, the ability to produce a chip that meets market expectations is almost an important indicator of a country's electronics industry base.

And not to talk about what that means for a country or a business, but to talk about it from a technical standpoint.

In CMOS processes, the feature dimensions typically represent the width of the “grid”, i.e. the channel length of the MOS device. Generally, the smaller the feature size, the higher the integration of the chip, the better the performance, and the lower the power consumption.

However, this size cannot be reduced indefinitely.

First, the silicon atom has its own width, and the tunnelling effect in quantum mechanics will become increasingly unobtrusive as the line width shrinks. Under a combination of various factors, the future of the silicon-based chip is severely limited.

However, humankind's quest for new technologies is eternal.

Since silicon-based chips do not work, open up new battlefields on other materials that may work.

According to the latest research available, the use of materials such as nanocarbon tubes and molybdenum disulphide has opened a new path for the process of chips to continue to improve, showing the dawn of continuing the Moorish law.

However, the situation is not always so optimistic.

Both materials, with the potential to replace silicon-based chips, are delayed from breaking the most critical bottlenecks due to their respective shortcomings, allowing research institutes worldwide to study silicon-based chip substitution materials.

That is, using these two groundbreaking materials, you successfully make the transistor, the core component of your chip!

Already during the study of the graphene superconducting material, the ship discovered two single-layer graphene overlapping at special angles, which would exhibit the properties of the Mott insulator under special circumstances.

This significant discovery not only directly led to the subsequent explosive breakthrough of carbon-based superconducting materials, but also laid the foundation for the success of the Pangu controllable fusion reactor.

Not only that, at that time, the ark was acutely aware that this characteristic could be applied not only in the superconductor field, but also in the semiconductor field, which would play an unexpected role.

Of course, he doesn't know much about the semiconductor industry, he just makes that judgment out of academic intuition.

At the time, he intended to pull the partner Baosheng Group's Sun Manager to invest in the project together, but unfortunately, at the time, Sun Manager felt that the project was unreliable, and as a subsidiary manager of Hua Hang Group, he did not have that much decision-making power, so he pushed Tai Chi away.

However, the Ark didn't care. He didn't lack money, he didn't lack people, and he didn't count the losses. After returning to China, he pulled out a research and development team and hung it under the Computing Materials Research Institute. He set up the project himself.

It's been two or three years since the project was launched, and it's finally dawn.

Standing next to the experimental equipment, looking through a microscope at the transistor completed by the carbon-based chip project team, the ark could not help but express its emotion.

“Beautiful...”

Although its raw material is pitch-black graphite, it is stripped into graphene fragments and after the layer is stacked into a transistor, like a finely crafted diamond, it emits a brilliant glow in the image presented by the microscope.

Yang Xu, standing next to him, couldn't bear to see the ark move his eyes away from his glasses and rush to the front road.

“Let me take a look. ”

Ark chuckled and stepped aside to give his glasses to Yang Xu.

He looked into his glasses for a while, and after about two minutes, he made an outcry.

“To describe it as a diamond is truly devalued… I dare say that all the diamonds in the world add up to nothing more precious than this. ”

The ark laughed haha.

“That's exaggerated… but I agree with you that diamonds do make it a little bit cheaper. ”

If it takes this thing to auction, there will be a large group of people willing to pay for it, even if it shouts a price that's enough to buy a whole truck of diamonds.

After all...

In this tiny carbon-based transistor, there is a future full of thoughts…

Looking back at the researchers standing behind him, the ark cleared its voice and said.

“Being able to produce a carbon-based transistor is breaking through the most critical bottlenecks of carbon-based chip technology! Although the size of our carbon-based transistor lags behind the size of the silicon-based transistor commonly found on the market by an order of magnitude, the chip made by carbon-based transistor control is unimaginable in theoretical minimal processes! ”

How unimaginable is it that an ark is difficult to describe in words?

The only certainty is that this great research will widen the lower limit of the chip process by an entire order of magnitude!

It is no exaggeration to say that if Professor Wu intends to judge the Academician, with this achievement, he will find a way to push him up once the next Academician's election year reaches the Ark.

If you can't, you can wait one more time!

“You guys are doing a great job! ”

Looking at the group of excited researchers, looking at Professor Wu Tianqun, who was full of red light because of his excitement and pride, the ark paused for a moment and continued in a solemn tone.

“Today, right now, we have made history and redefined the future! ”