The Chip Technology Research Institute of NTU is also quite famous in China. Its academic director is Academician Guo Yuanbiao, a well-known expert in physical materials science. Academician Guo Yuanbiao has long been engaged in research on the optoelectronic properties of semiconductor materials and semiconductor chip materials, and has won national awards.

Second Prize in Natural Science, he is regarded as an authority in this field in China, and he once held the title of technical consultant in several major domestic chip manufacturers.

It's just that he is over 70 years old and is not in good health. He is basically unable to bear the heavy research tasks, so he is currently in a state of semi-disease. The Chip Technology Research Institute of NTU has been handed over to his proud disciple.

, Professor Li Junlu, who is only 42 years old, is actually in charge.

While Qin Ke was talking on the phone with Uncle Yang, Professor Li Junlu was holding an internal meeting.

The topic of the meeting is naturally next year’s funding application.

It's just that this meeting is a bit special. No paper or pen is allowed in the meeting. All electronic equipment must be placed in a shielding cabinet before entering the meeting room. There are staff members holding handheld electronic detectors to check everyone before entering.

"This meeting will not be recorded, nor will it be disseminated in any form." Professor Li Junlu glanced at the audience, his eyes were like lightning, and he was full of majesty.

Although he was only in his early forties, he kept a straight face all day long, which made him very difficult to get along with. He was never lenient in his behavior, and the technical staff in the institute were quite afraid of Professor Li.

At this time, all the researchers who caught his eye quickly lowered their heads or looked away, not daring to face his gaze.

Seeing that he had suppressed everyone, Professor Li Junlu said coldly: "I heard that some people had some criticisms about the funding application report submitted by the institute, thinking it was against academic principles. I will spread my words today, a research institute

What is the most important thing? Funding! Without funds, how can we pay you wages? How can we buy materials for experiments? Then how can we talk about building a career?"

The whole place was quiet.

"It is true that chips are a key scientific research project supported in China, but there are more than 1,000 domestic research institutes researching carbon-based chip technology alone! And there were more than 200 more last year! What does this mean? It means that originally

There are more monks than porridge, and now there are 200 more mouths to eat, so the porridge will be even less!"

Professor Li Junlu stared at one of the men in his mid-thirties, with a frowning face, and said with a cold face: "The institute is under a lot of pressure now. If we don't follow the authority urgently on some matters, we will have to deal with the report to a certain extent."

If the funds we get next year are 'beautified', the porridge in our hands will definitely be less than this year! Your wages will be reduced! Whoever opposes such 'beautification' wants to reduce everyone's wages. Are you willing?

?”

Several confidants in the audience immediately shouted: "I don't want to!"

The rest of the people hesitated to speak, and finally their eyes fell on the man with the Chinese character face.

The man with the Chinese character stood up slowly and said loudly: "Senior Brother Li, I think that is no longer 'beautification', but 'faking'! This has obviously crossed the red line! Our current research on 'T-shaped special-shaped carbon nanotubes'

There are still many key points that are far from a 'breakthrough', let alone a successful imitation. In that report, it was claimed that 'T-shaped special-shaped carbon nanotubes' had been successfully developed and the data was modified. This is not

What is fraud? The teacher will be very angry and disappointed if he finds out about this..."

Professor Li Junlu said impatiently: "Can you stop thinking so hard! We have basically figured out the idea of ​​imitating 'T-shaped special-shaped carbon nanotubes', and it is only a matter of time before we can imitate them. We just advanced the results in the report

One point, what’s the problem? This can only be called artistic processing!”

Li Junlu has been jealous and dissatisfied with his junior brother Xia Renliang for a long time. If the "T-shaped special-shaped carbon nanotubes" did not require him to carry out key technical research, how could Li Junlu tolerate him?

Xia Renliang is indeed a rare talent. He is a close disciple of the old academician Guo Yuanbiao. He is extremely talented in semiconductor materials, superconducting materials and chip materials. He was rated as a full professor in his early thirties. If he were not too young, he would

The senior staff in the institute are not convinced by him, so he is currently in charge of the work of the institute.

Li Junlu was smooth in dealing with matters and was very good at communication before taking office, so he attracted a large number of people to support him, which made the old academician Guo Yuanbiao finally give him the responsibility of the institute.

However, Li Junlu changed his face after he took office. In order to obtain the scientific research capital for himself to be elected as an academician, he used strict management methods to squeeze the technical staff in the research institute, and also spent a lot of money to get a small amount from a foreign research institute.

"T-shaped special-shaped carbon nanotubes" came back, hoping to use this as a breakthrough to achieve research results that are proud of the country.

However, it is extremely difficult to understand the technical principles of this "T-shaped special-shaped carbon nanotube" and to imitate it. Li Junlu personally led a team to tackle the problem for more than half a year with no results. In the end, Xia Renliang was the first to figure out its general composition and proposed

The overall idea of ​​imitation is relatively reliable.

This made Li Junlu both happy and jealous, and Xia Renliang was a stubborn person. In order to get more scientific research funds next year, Li Junlu asked Xia Renliang to "beautify" the report, but Xia Renliang refused directly, making Li Junlu angry.

I slapped the table on the spot.

Since Xia Renliang has been unwilling to cooperate, Li Junlu finally had to take matters into his own hands to complete the "beautification" of the report...

What made Li Junlu even more annoyed was that Xia Renliang actually wanted to write to his teacher, Academician Guo Yuanbiao, to inform him of this matter - Academician Guo had undergone heart surgery and was currently not allowed to touch electronic products with radio signals and could only communicate through letters - this was even more...

I was touched by Li Junlu's objections, so today's "Criticism Conference" came into being...

Xia Renliang shook his head and said: "Based on our current research results, as long as we report them truthfully, next year's funding will definitely not be reduced..."

Li Junlu interrupted coldly: "But it won't increase! You don't know that the imitation experiment of 'T-shaped special-shaped carbon nanotubes' will cost a lot of money. Without strong financial support, how long will it take for us to successfully imitate it?"

Not to mention the subsequent carbon-based chips prepared by the 90nm process!"

Li Junlu also missed one sentence, that is, "Without these achievements, what can I do to compete for academicianship?"

Xia Renliang argued rationally: "I still oppose counterfeiting. As long as we have normal funds, we can spend more time and energy to understand the technical principles and reduce the number of imitation experiments. The actual progress will not be much slower, and we can cooperate with other companies."

Teamwork in similar directions to jointly carry out technical research..."

"We have our own way to achieve successful research, so why should we share the credit with others!" This "T-shaped special-shaped carbon nanotube" was obtained by Li Junlu after all his hard thinking. It is his biggest capital when applying for academicianship in the future. How can it be compared with others?

Institute sharing?

Xia Renliang also blushed: "Brother Li, your so-called 'method' is wrong. Once discovered by the superiors, it will seriously affect the reputation of our institute and even be self-defeating..."

Li Junlu laughed angrily and interrupted again by snapping the case: "Discovered? If you didn't say it, and the people present didn't say it, would the people who reviewed the report have the level to discover it? Let alone the people who reviewed the report, look at the country

, which expert can have such a high technical level of carbon nanotubes and can find traces of 'beautification' inside? What's more, we also handed over a small section of 'T-shaped special-shaped carbon nanotubes' as evidence! I now use research

The identity of the person in charge of the institute is warning you, Junior Brother Xia, the report has been handed in. You'd better keep your mouth shut. The teacher has devoted his whole life to this institute. If the reputation of this institute is damaged, I think you have

How can I face the teacher?"

Xia Renliang's eyes were full of struggle and frustration, and he clenched his fists hard, but finally let go helplessly.

…

With Qin Ke's popularity at this time, many people pay attention to his every move. If he visits Yang Chengke's office and stays for a long time during such a sensitive period when next year's scientific research funding is being discussed, it will definitely arouse various speculations from many interested people.

In the end, out of caution, Uncle Yang did not let Qin Ke make a trip. Instead, he asked his secretary Lu Xinping to hand over the report and carbon nanotube materials to Wei Feng's colleague, who then handed it over to Wei Feng, and so on.

Circle, it was delivered to Qin Ke's hands without anyone noticing.

After seeing the report, Qin Ke took the small piece of carbon nanotube material to the Qingning Quantum Computing Laboratory and stayed there for about half a day. That night, the report and the carbon nanotube material were sent back to Uncle Yang's house.

In the office.

Uncle Yang called immediately: "How is it?"

Qin Ke pondered: "It's a bit strange. Their carbon nanotube materials are indeed at the top level in China in terms of conductivity and energy consumption, and are not even inferior to foreign advanced levels. We can judge from this that they have a strong interest in graphite."

Research on alkenes has reached the world’s first-class level.”

Uncle Yang perked up. Although he believed more and was more optimistic about the chip material team led by Qin Ke, he would be happy to see a hundred flowers blooming in China, so he said a little excitedly: "You mean their project

We have indeed achieved outstanding results. Is it really possible to break through the 28nm carbon-based chip technology bottleneck within three to five years?”

Qin Ke shook his head and said: "The idea and logic of the report itself are not wrong, but many details have loopholes, and the data deviates greatly from reality. It is likely that it was fabricated for the purpose of this carbon nanotube material."

Yang Chengke's smile froze, and then he frowned and said, "You mean they falsified the report?"

"There is indeed fraud. In fact, the technical ideas in their report are correct, but there are still many technical key points that they have not broken through. For example, when they mentioned the purification of graphene, the core material of carbon-based chips, they said that chemical precipitation method was used, but according to

The experimental method they mentioned, which only adds concentrated sulfuric acid and concentrated nitric acid to react graphite, supplemented by what they call high-precision precipitation operations, cannot obtain the single-layer graphene necessary to meet the performance of this carbon nanotube material."

Qin Ke said with certainty: "Although I don't know how they obtained this carbon nanotube material, even if they conduct research for three more years according to the ideas in this report, they may not be able to conquer all the key technologies and manufacture them.

out of the same carbon nanotube material."

Qin Ke now holds the "Full Process of Making a New Type of Carbon Crystal Composite Nanomaterial Suitable for 1nm Chips" and has been studying superconducting materials for a long time. After the physics subject broke through to the master level, he gave priority to absorbing "Material Physics"

Knowledge, when it comes to current understanding of mainstream chip materials, there are really not many people in the world who can surpass him.

So he only read the report from NTU's Institute of Chip Technology once, and found that there were many specious questions in it. Later, he went to the Quantum Computing Laboratory and used instruments to measure the corresponding carbon nanotube materials, and he quickly confirmed it.

speculation.

There is nothing wrong with the idea of ​​the report, it is basically correct, and there is nothing wrong with most of the content. However, the key technical details and data are either vague, or the results are fabricated according to logic and are wrong.

"If I'm not wrong," Qin Ke continued: "They obtained this carbon nanotube material first, and then began to conduct various research on it, trying to imitate it. Their level is good, and they have indeed achieved a lot.

At least the research ideas are correct, and they have also developed the 'graphene-carbon nanotube special-shaped structure technology', but the results so far are actually very limited. In order to get more funds, they wrote such a report

If the research process goes smoothly, they will probably be able to successfully replicate this carbon nanotube material within three to four years, but if they want to launch a carbon-based chip made with a 90nm process, it will take seven years at the fastest."

Yang Chengke's face turned dark when he heard this.

Will it take seven years to launch a carbon-based chip prepared by the 90nm process? Even if the performance is equivalent to that of a 28nm silicon-based chip, it is still far behind the times. It is estimated that the top foreign chip manufacturers have already launched 2nm silicon-based chips on the market by then.

Yes, it is very possible to prepare 1nm silicon-based chips in the laboratory, and there may even be greater breakthroughs in carbon-based chips.

If people like me were deceived by the report of the NTU Chip Technology Research Institute and tilted a large amount of funds towards it, but seven years of full support only resulted in that outcome, I would probably vomit three liters of blood!

Yang Chengke suppressed his anger and asked: "Qin Ke, how confident are you in this judgment?"

"More than ninety-five percent. Uncle Yang, if you ask them to hand over more of these carbon nanotube materials, it will confirm what I just said. They can't make it. Even if they still have some stocks in hand, they will never do it.

It will be a lot, and I can’t promise how long it will take to get it out.”

Speaking of this, Qin Ke also sighed in his heart.

The country attaches great importance to scientific research, but the market is too big. On average, even for the chip aspect, which attaches great importance to, scientific research funds are limited. Naturally, we hope that good iron will be used on the cutting edge.

The problem is that most high-end technologies are money-consuming "gold-eating beasts". It is not surprising that after spending ten or eight years of money, they cannot produce excellent results. Without excellent results, it is difficult to confidently apply for more funds.

In order to compete for funds, various project teams have no choice but to show their magical powers across the sea.

But blatantly falsifying money for the sake of funding like this is definitely a red line. Once this trend is established, it will only lead to those outstanding talents who are doing research seriously but cannot get enough funding because they refuse to falsify, and eventually leave the country to

Do research in other countries.

Yang Chengke took a deep breath and suppressed his anger. He nodded and said, "I understand. I will handle this matter properly. Just take good care of Xiao Ning and lead the 'chip research' team."
Chapter completed!