Half-immortal civilization

The research and development of a technology often involves the entire industrial system.

The tone of Master Company has been set, but the burden on Li Changxing's shoulders is not easy.Although diamond technology has been born for decades, human beings are still just starting to explore this material.But now, diamond technology is almost the cornerstone of the future development of the master company, which puts even more pressure on Li Changxing.

After so many years, when the master company has maintained its vigorous development, everyone has also endured tremendous pressure.There are pressures from the international environment and political environment, as well as pressure from a strong foreign industrial base.It is undeniable that in basic industries, foreign countries are stronger than domestic ones after all.

In addition, there is a large number of talents. Because of the talent training problems left over from Huaxia's history, Huaxia is a little nervous in this regard; of course, the master companies built on the basis of Huaxia are also affected by these.

But fortunately, Zhang Jingyuan opened up the golden finger, and he caught up to a part in a short period of time; but as the company gradually got on the right track, Zhang Jingyuan also began to consciously close the golden finger gradually.For development, it is better to take one step at a time.Appropriate promotion is called fertilization; excessive help is called pinching seedlings to encourage growth.

But now, when Li Changxing takes over the research of the diamond industry, the first thing he worries about is that there are not enough talents!Almost all of the existing talents are in the field of silicon-based materials; so far, even expert companies can only research diamond chips in small batches, and [-]% of diamond chips need to be purchased from the state.The only talent is not enough.

Li Changxing and Li Changxing were responsible for researching diamond technology. They were Li Sheng, the general manager of the stone company acquired by Master Company, and Tang Feng from the diamond industry.Among them, Li Sheng is proficient in the material of diamonds; Tang Feng is proficient in the industrial application of diamonds.The two have their own strengths.

Li Changxing, Huang Feifei, Tang Feng, Li Sheng.He is the person in charge of the research of the diamond industry in Gaoshou Company.Of course, in order to break the country's monopoly on diamonds, the master company has already established a good foundation, but there is still some distance from perfection.

Tsk... The huge steel gate slowly opened, and the four of Li Changxing entered one of the strictest laboratories in this master company together with the vehicles transporting supplies.The top laboratory of the master company has a total of energy, power, intelligence, materials, communication, weapons and the current diamond material research.

However, the research on diamond materials, even if a master company has opened Goldfinger, is still progressing slowly.With the current technology, we want to produce diamond fine particles, diamond coatings and so on.The technology is fully mature.But to produce high-purity, large-grained diamonds.It makes people blind; purity is always one of the most important indicators in high-tech.

Ordinary diamond particles, such as diamond particles that can be used as glass knives.A few millimeters or less is enough; and this thing doesn't have to be about purity.Hard enough on the line.

But in order to meet the production of chips.It must be at least 1x1 cm in size and [-] mm thick to meet the array requirements of the chip; and the purity requirements on the chip.Basically no less than six nines!This makes it impossible for the traditional diamond production process to meet the requirements, not even occupying the edge!
Most importantly, diamonds are not metal!It cannot be purified!In other words, whatever you produce, you can only use it in this way.It can only cut.As for talking about melting diamonds and the like, it's purely a joke.

Someone once said that the diamond industry determines the intelligence of the future!Because among the materials discovered and developed by human beings so far, there is not no material more perfect than diamonds.have!This is certain, human wisdom and technology should never be underestimated!However, industrial production pays attention to cost and quantification issues; moreover, the materials developed are often accidental and irreproducible.After all, the current technology is still in its infancy!
Diamond research and laboratories are required to maintain a purity of more than 6 nines at all times. Even Li Changxing and others can only enter through the planned door, and cannot enter alone; after entering, they also need to be disinfected and wear research clothes.

The research clothes are very elegant, and even breathing can only be done through the filter cotton.Fortunately, the temperature here is very suitable and acceptable.Scientific research is accumulated little by little by these hard-working scientists.

Entering the laboratory, all the scientists are doing research around two huge machines.

These two machines are so huge, with a height of more than ten meters, a length of four to fifty meters, and a width of seven or eight meters. There are messy wires and pipes interspersed vertically and horizontally.All the staff are wearing research uniforms, and at a glance, the place is pure white!
After the four arrived, they observed quietly, not disturbing the busy scientists.The surrounding scientists also knew these four people, but they didn't say hello either.In the master company, researchers have a very high status, and they can even point at Zhang Jingyuan's nose and scold his mother—of course, the premise is that you have a reason and the courage to do so.But no matter what, in the master company, the research environment is definitely the best in the world!It is estimated that even in western countries, it is impossible to give what they want like a master company!
The four of Li Changxing watched from a distance. The two huge machines in front were diamond material production equipment developed by the master company itself, which almost completely mastered independent technology.And these two steel crafts weighing tens of thousands of tons, every screw in them was developed and designed by the scientists in front of them, or they were hand-picked.No one knows how much the master company has invested in research and development, but the two diamond chip production machines in front of us are worth n times more than the same volume of gold!Because, they can produce diamonds.

The current two machines are produced in two ways, and now scientists are evaluating the pros and cons of the two methods and so on.

The first method is the chemical + physical deposition method, which uses alkanes (generally methane, acetylene) or alcohols (methanol or ethanol alcohol) to generate pure active carbon ions in a highly charged ion environment exceeding 2000 degrees , and the rest generate water, hydrogen, etc.Water and hydrogen will not affect carbon ions in such an environment.It even has a catalytic effect; while carbon ions will spontaneously gather in the prepared "petri dish".Yes, petri dishes!It is estimated that no one will believe that the diamonds produced by this deposition method are actually "grown out".Generally, the cut diamond slice, usually a very thin, very flat sheet, is placed on a base with negative ions; then carbon ions (positive charge) will spontaneously gather on it.The specific size depends on the design of the cultivated rice.

But now, there is a huge petri dish, which is one meter long and wide, and inside it are spliced ​​diamond slices of various sizes, which fit perfectly.And on the Petri dish.A layer of diamonds more than ten centimeters thick and uneven has grown—a whole diamond pie.

A puff of gas was sprayed into it.Then, under the action of high temperature and blue-purple electric spark, the organic molecules are completely broken up, and carbon ions are deposited automatically; then the exhaust gas is discharged.Each cycle takes nearly two hours; to complete such a diamond pie, it takes a full half a month of "growth" time.

And the other side.It is another way of production!It is the world's most cutting-edge material production process: atomic sequencing!Produce directly from the atomic point of view!under high temperature.Every carbon atom is ionized.Then arrange them one by one according to the crystal structure of diamonds.This production method is like building, except that the building materials are not bricks, cement, and steel bars; they are carbon ions!
In a production room with a height of two meters, a width of one meter, and a length of three meters.Tens of thousands of integrated stitches are constantly busy, little blue sparks are constantly flashing, and the electromagnetic noise is extremely noisy; and at the bottom of the production room, there is already a 2.8 meters long, 0.7 meters wide, and a thickness of about ten centimeters. Diamond "plate".

Both machines are true pinnacles of technology, but utilize very different principles.

I believe that very few people would have imagined that when some people mine mines regardless of the cost to find natural diamonds, the master company can already produce diamonds according to the standard of cubic meters.Although it is only a laboratory environment now, there is still a certain distance from real industrial production.But the basics are settled, and the rest will be much simpler.

The scientists were very busy, and Li Changxing and the others consciously did not disturb them, waiting for them to finish their work.Some of them are responsible for checking the software, some are responsible for checking the mechanical seal, and some are responsible for checking the voltage-in fact, these two machines have many problems, and there are too many places that need to be further developed.

Why!With a sigh, a somewhat old voice came.A wrinkled old scientist walked slowly in front of Li Changxing and the others.

"Professor Chen, how is the situation now?" Li Changxing asked respectfully.

"Come on, this is not a place to talk, let's talk in the office."

Professor Chen Pingchuan walked slowly. The talent that this expert company poached from the country was over 70 years old.

The office is also inside this laboratory, but it is completely sealed off from the outside by two doors.The office environment is relatively relaxed, and there is no need to strictly follow the six nines standard, just keep it properly clean.In fact, the old expert's office can be said to be horrible, with all kinds of materials all over the floor.Of course, there are still some rules.

Li Changxing, who has been here many times, tiptoes cautiously; there are too many precious materials here.The first time I came here, Li Changxing was slobbered by the old professor who pointed at his nose; just because Li Changxing thought that everything on the ground was rubbish, he stepped on it a few times...

"I'm in trouble now!" Before Li Changxing and others could speak, Professor Chen began to tell the whole story. "The deposition method can guarantee the purity, and the maximum can be controlled at more than 9 nines. But the efficiency is too low. Such a huge machine can only produce 9 kilograms of qualified diamonds a month.

Perhaps this efficiency is already among the best in the world, but it is far from enough to complete industrial quantitative production.In particular, there are still many problems with the machine, and problems occur from time to time.

However, the atomic production method, that is, the picometer production technology, cannot guarantee 100% ionization of all carbon atoms.In fact, although the production is very fast, it basically does not meet the precision and purity requirements of the chip.It can be said that the diamond plate looks very large and beautiful, but it is completely waste.For the time being, the production technology of pico rice cannot even reach the purity of 4 nines. "

"What if we want to industrialize production now?" Li Changxing was a little anxious.To develop the diamond industry, only diamonds are not enough, and more technologies need to be developed; but all of these have to wait for rice to be cooked!And this rice is the diamond material.As the master company set the tone for diamond development, the burden on Li Changxing's shoulders suddenly increased too much.

"Then we can only use the deposition method of production technology. But now the input and output will be difficult to balance." Professor Chen Pingchuan frowned - although he said that his face was already full of wrinkles, he could still see it. "The cost of the current machine alone is as high as nearly [-] billion yuan. Of course, this is the result of continuous research and improvement. But I personally estimate that even if it is mass-produced, the cost of such a machine will be difficult to come down to [-] billion yuan." .There are too many things in it, and it may not be possible to use machines to complete the production, and it needs to be processed by hand. Of course, if it is processed by hand, the success rate may be only three per thousand.”

"Some parts cannot be processed by machines?!" Li Changxing frowned.Machines are not omnipotent after all!In the cutting-edge field, such a situation has never happened to a master company; some complex or demanding parts, often the machine cannot meet the production requirements; at this time, manual processing is required!
The person in charge of processing them is an eighth-level mechanic!These people are comparable to the top scientists of the master company!With their eyes and hands, and with the help of simple tools, they can complete work that cannot be done by the world's top machining centers.However, manual processing is time-consuming and laborious, and the scrap rate is extremely high!For some precision parts, a little force is often used, and the blanks worth tens of thousands or even millions of dollars are completely abolished.

"Huh..." Li Changxing exhaled suddenly, sat down and decided: "Professor Chen, we have to do it!
You also know what happened in Japan this time. Japan has proved at the cost of a nation that the existing electronic technology is so fragile that it cannot withstand high temperatures, electromagnetic shocks, or low temperatures; let alone violent shocks. voltage changes.

Now, the most mature technology that can solve this problem is only diamond chip technology.

According to the company's strategy, safety is above all else! Therefore, we must develop our diamond industry before other countries and institutions have developed a large number of diamond industries.

We can't wait for the future, we must take the initiative to fight for it!

Our future must be in our own hands. "

"Understood. I will improve the technology as soon as possible and sort out the production process of the machine. At the same time, I will try my best to separate the core components that need to be processed by hand, and let the machine complete the processing as much as possible. About two months."

"Two months, yes! But the two existing machines need to be fully produced. We need to start vigorous research." Two months, Li Changxing frowned.These days, time waits for no one, and you never know how far you have reached abroad.You know, when Huaxia started to develop diamond chips, the original United States could already achieve simple diamond chip production.And at that time, it was around 2000!The gap between them is too long. Perhaps the current American Federation has far surpassed the master company and Huaxia in terms of diamond craftsmanship.

It is estimated that if Zhang Jingyuan planned an alternative chip technology with the golden finger of the formation, the current chip technology is still monopolized by the West.

But Li Changxing is not satisfied with the present. "Professor Chen, in your opinion, which is better, the deposition method or the picometer production method?"

"There is no better way to say science, only more appropriate." Professor Chen had a somewhat educational and reprimanding tone, but Li Changxing was not angry, but accepted the teaching with an open mind. "Temporarily speaking, the deposition method is technically complicated, but the requirements for cutting-edge technology are relatively simple. It is more in line with the current company's needs.

However, picometer production technology has a wide range, not only can be used in the production of diamonds, but also can be used in other production.This is actually the advanced evolutionary technology of 3D printing in the past.And the structure is relatively simple, fast and controllable.But now the purity cannot be solved, and it is extremely dependent on cutting-edge technology; it can only be said that there will be a broad market in the future.Theoretically, if it is large enough, a complete space shuttle can be produced directly from the atomic point of view.But the technology is immature now. "

"Okay. Now it can only be the deposition method." (To be continued...)