Chapter 316 Lin Xiao is going to study superconductivity!

"You...this is really scary."

Zhao Xian couldn't help but said.

Lin Xiao smiled: "What's so scary about this."

"You shouldn't have been studying superconductors for a long time, right? Now that you have achieved such a result, isn't it scary?" Zhao Xian said: "It seems that those of us who study superconductors as I just said are ready to lose our jobs. , and that’s absolutely right.”

As he spoke, he showed an expression of sudden realization and said: "No wonder you suddenly asked me just now, if room temperature superconductors appear, will everyone who studies superconductivity in the world be in trouble? It seems that you are ready."

Lin Xiao: "...Don't talk nonsense, I didn't, I'm not."

I'm suing you for slander! You are slandering me——

It's just that the person who said this must not have been slandered.

Lin Xiao really thought so just now.

If he really succeeded in developing a room-temperature superconductor, would it be a devastating blow to so many people who study superconductors?

Of course, there is no need to worry so much, and he will not give up just because millions of Caogong are dependent on food and clothing.

Needless to say, the importance of room-temperature superconductors to human society is still a question. After he develops room-temperature superconductors, there is still a question whether they will be announced.

If this thing is really developed, they will definitely have to keep it secret first, and then those people can continue to study it for a while.

However, considering the changes brought about by normal temperature superconductors, it is estimated that if you really want to hide it, you won't be able to hide it for too long.

After all, room-temperature superconductors can be used wherever electricity is used. At that time, many places in China will make changes. It is impossible to master room-temperature superconductors. Just to keep them secret, it will be a bit of a waste.

Without thinking any more, he stood up and said, "Well, Academician Zhao, that's it for today. I'm going back."

"Yes." Zhao Xian nodded: "Send out the paper as soon as possible. Our superconducting community needs you to add some stimulants to it."

Lin Xiao smiled and said: "Let me synthesize the yttrium barium copper oxygen with this topological structure first, and then conduct experiments to determine the actual results. Now it is just through software simulation, which is still a bit inappropriate."

"That's right."

"Um."

Lin Xiao nodded, then stopped staying, said goodbye to Zhao Xian, and then said goodbye to Fang Zhong by the way before leaving the Institute of Physics.

As for the synthesis of this new structure of yttrium barium copper oxide, he would of course conduct it at the Dingguang Research Institute.

After all, researching this kind of thing costs money, and the money spent may be millions. It is impossible for the Institute of Physics to be so generous and give him millions of funds.

What's more, when this thing is created, it will be at least an article in "Science" and "Nature". Even if Lin Xiao separates the contents, one article will introduce the improvement of the critical current density of yttrium barium copper oxide after topological transformation, and the other will introduce This article introduces his use of mathematical methods to prove that the topologically transformed yttrium barium copper oxygen has more electron pairs suspected of being Cooper pairs. Then this is an article in "Science", "Nature" and an article in "Physical Review Letters".

This kind of achievement is definitely the best left to their Dingguang Research Institute.

So soon, he returned to his research institute, and the first thing he did was arrange for people to build a superconducting laboratory.

However, after he made arrangements, what made people a little confused was that his design requirements for this superconducting laboratory also included research on the application fields of practical high-temperature and room-temperature superconductors.

This is very strange.

Where is such a practical high-temperature superconductor now?

Not to mention room temperature superconductors.

In the current global superconducting material market, niobium-titanium alloy, a low-temperature superconductor, accounts for up to 80% of the market.

However, as the director, Lin Xiao has made such a decision, so the people under him will naturally not say anything and just follow the instructions honestly. As for money issues, naturally they can apply directly to the state.

When the country heard that Lin Xiao wanted to study superconductors, it was of course a hundred percent agreement.

For scientists like Lin Xiao, the country is not afraid that he will ask for money, but that he will not need the money and then ruin it.

After all, every brain cell in Lin Xiao's death is a brain cell for the country.

So the funds for the construction of the superconducting laboratory were directly received not long after, and then a piece of land was found near the current Dingguang Research Institute and the construction of the superconducting laboratory began. At the same time, various experimental instruments also began to be purchased. Orders, such as the ARPES that Lin Xiao saw in the Superconducting Laboratory of the Institute of Physics, and other low-temperature pipelines. These low-temperature pipelines are naturally used to contain liquid nitrogen and liquid helium, which are used to maintain the superconducting state of materials. .

The most important reason why researching superconductors is expensive is that it is very expensive to maintain the superconducting state of these conductors. A large amount of liquid nitrogen and liquid helium are used, which is impossible without spending money. Just think about the CT machine and you will know why. A CT scan is very expensive, largely for this reason.

Of course, although it is expensive, it is also for scientific research.

Looking at all human investments, the investment with the highest profitability is investment in scientific research. If it were not investment in scientific research, how could modern people enjoy a more comfortable life than the ancient emperors?

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In the following time, while waiting for the construction of the superconducting laboratory, Lin Xiao began research on the synthesis method of the new structure yttrium barium copper oxygen.

Although this new structure of yttrium barium copper oxide has basically the same properties as the original yttrium barium copper oxide, which refers to various properties such as chemical formula, molar mass, density, melting point, solubility, etc., the structural Different, the original synthesis method must not be able to prepare compounds with different structures.

And researching it is still quite difficult, and it takes a certain amount of time.

So, time passed slowly like this.

October has passed and November has arrived.

The news that Lin Xiao began to study superconductors disappeared. Of course, it did not fly too far, and it only spread a little in the academic world.

So some discussions began in the academic community.

For example, can Lin Xiao come up with something, or come up with an important superconducting material?

But apparently, most people don't quite believe it.

"He has already developed a photolithography machine or an X-ray lithography machine, and now he wants to develop superconductors? Do you believe it? I don't believe it anyway."

"I don't believe it either. People have their limits, unless they stop being human. The photolithography machine has been built, so it's time for him to take a break, right?"

"The most I believe is that he has come up with some theories. It is impossible to directly solve the problem of superconductors. That would be really crazy."

"There are already cases for lithography machines and so on. Although he is working on an X-ray lithography machine, the only difference is that the light source is different from that of an EUV lithography machine. Who doesn't know how difficult superconductors are? He never knows Maybe the superconducting mechanism will be solved as soon as it comes?"

"Hey, even if he solves the superconducting mechanism, you may not be able to know it. It is definitely impossible to tell you this kind of thing. It can be regarded as a state secret. I heard others speculate that the RDX pure silicon crystal material developed by Lin Xiao , it must be because he came up with a key theory, but he didn’t publish it.”

"Holy shit, is it true? Is this a theory that can be used to calculate the unit cell structure of an RDX pure silicon crystal? I don't understand why this is the only thing about this RDX pure silicon crystal. How can I be sure that this RDX crystal can It diffracts X-rays regularly and can even zoom in and out. What does its molecular structure look like? It can't be just luck, right?"

"It's just a guess. It's indeed very strange."

"But don't you think that if Lin Xiao can even come up with this thing, why can't he come up with a superconducting mechanism?"

"Stop talking about it. The more I talk about it, the more I feel that Lin Xiao is going to make me, a person who has studied superconductors for ten years, lose my job."

"..."

Obviously, people now have great doubts about RDX pure silicon crystal. At the same time, they also feel a sense of oppression when Lin Xiao starts to study superconductors.

The end point of research on superconductors that can be seen now is the birth of room-temperature superconductors for civilian use. If room-temperature superconductors appear, the research on superconductivity will probably move to thermal superconductivity and color superconductivity. However, that is completely Another area.

Therefore, it can be said that the research on superconductivity is a winner-takes-all situation, that is, whoever develops a superconductor that is low-cost and can be used on a large scale at room temperature and pressure will be able to conduct research on electrical superconductivity.

Lin Xiao's joining seemed to put a lot of pressure on them.

However, they could not stop Lin Xiao from studying, so they could only work harder and study their own.

In addition to the superconducting world, China's semiconductor industry has also begun to develop rapidly.

The X-ray lithography equipment production company responsible for the production of X-ray lithography machines has established a production line and begun to accelerate the production of X-ray lithography machines. As for the orders, all of them naturally belong to Huaxia Chip Manufacturing Company.

As for the five X-ray lithography machines built in the X-ray plan, they have also been classified as Huaxia Chip Manufacturing Company, including the workshop where they are located.

Of course, the land where the workshop is located still belongs to Dingguang Research Institute. Huaxia Chip Manufacturing Company temporarily rents the land from Dingguang Research Institute and has to pay.

Now these five X-ray lithography machines and their production lines are mainly responsible for producing Huawei's Kirin 9000 chips and developing new processes. Now, according to the 5nm process given by Lin Xiao, R\u0026D personnel are developing the corresponding 7nm. Technology, this kind of backward research and development, does have a certain degree of difficulty, which is probably the same as reverse engineering. Of course, the difficulty is not too high.

As for the new Kirin 9000 chip they developed, Warwick naturally paid the money to place the order, and then named it Kirin 9000S and prepared it for the release of the next model.

Today, Warwick has been saved by accident and has begun to rise from the ashes.

Warwick fans have been waiting for this situation for too long.