In the exit square of Shangling City High-speed Railway Station, Bao Zhengyi and Fan Xiaoming stood together chatting, their eyes looking towards the exit from time to time.
"Boss! This uncle is really annoying. It's been five minutes since the high-speed train arrived at the station, and no one has come out." Fan Xiaoming said impatiently, "Su Zhe has woken up. I want to know if Su Zhe has done it." Come up with ion beam polishing technology, and those things written on A4 paper, I want Su Zhe to explain to me one by one... Well, boss, you said Su Zhe is so strong, just read the book, this is Not too evil."
He judged based on the situation Deng Jiajia found out.
Su Zhe completed the undergraduate, master's and doctoral studies in mathematics and physics in just twelve days, and also read a large number of related papers.
From the content written on those A4 papers, we can know that Su Zhe has mastered knowledge related to mathematics and physics, even more firmly than he and his boss have.
This... this conclusion was difficult for him to accept.
"Hey! There is a gap between geniuses. We have to admit this. Moreover, maybe Su Zhe has learned relevant knowledge before. After all, the Internet is so developed now." Bao Zhengyi comforted himself.
Fan Xiaoming nodded, "I have seen top geniuses who have a photographic memory and great understanding. It's a pity that this top genius studied finance and is now being fooled around in the financial world."
"Finance! That's a game between people. No matter how talented you are, it's useless." Bao Zhengyi pointed to the exit, "Look, Professor Niu Da has come out."
"Dizzy! Uncle Niu is in his early forties, a young man. He is dressed so formally, with leather shoes, trousers, and a short shirt. He is also holding a briefcase in his hand. Those who didn't know better would have thought he was selling insurance." Fan Xiaoming murmured.
With that said, the two of them walked towards the exit of the station.
Niu Guanghui was holding a briefcase in his hand and just came out of the station when he saw Bao Zhengyi and Fan Xiaoming from a distance.
The three of them came together and said hello.
Fan Xiaoming coughed and asked with a smile: "Uncle Niu, how is the progress of the EUV light source?"
The research team of Tsinghua University has solved the problem of EUV light source. However, Tsinghua University uses synchrotron radiation light source, which has a disadvantage. Compared with plasma light source, it consumes extremely energy.
The extreme ultraviolet light produced by plasma light sources is inherently energy-intensive, not to mention the extreme ultraviolet light produced by synchrotron radiation sources.
His mentor Niu Guanghui studied extreme ultraviolet light produced by plasma light sources.
"Well, Xiaoming! Don't call me uncle, call me brother. As for the EUV light source, let's not talk about it for now. Let's talk about Su Zhe." Niu Guanghui thought of something, "Junior Brother Bao! Is your sixth test the same? It failed, and the rumor is that you couldn’t think about it and ended up in the hospital.”
Bao Zhengyi's face turned dark instantly, and he explained: "The sixth test failed. It was not me who went to the hospital, but Su Zhe. Besides, I didn't think about it. It just failed the test! What a big deal."
"That's right! I just said those people are talking nonsense. A strong person like Junior Brother Bao cannot be defeated by a small setback." Niu Guanghui said with a smile, "By the way, why do you admire Su Zhe so much? Su Zhe is the provincial champion It’s true, there is no need to pay such a high price.”
"What! Su Zhe is really the provincial champion, are you sure?" Fan Xiaoming asked with a smile.
"I asked someone to check this morning. Su Zhe is this year's provincial science champion, with a score of 749, and he is the only candidate with a perfect score in the math test." Niu Guanghui nodded.
Fan Xiaoming knew that Su Zhe could get full marks in the exam, but he didn't know that Su Zhe was the only one who got full marks in the exam. He was a little surprised by this.
As for Su Zhe's score of 749, he and Bao Zhengyi thought it was normal.
What a genius!
None of them scored more than 700 points in the exam back then, they just didn't get the top pick that year.
"Come on, we said on the way to the hospital that if we go late, Qingdao University and Yanda University may snatch the person away." Bao Zhengyi greeted.
Since his senior brother Niu Guanghui knew Su Zhe's college entrance examination results in advance through connections, the admissions teachers at Tsingta University and Yanda University must also know about it. After all, it is common practice for these two schools to compete for the top pick.
On the way to the municipal hospital, Fan Xiaoming drove, while Bao Zhengyi and Niu Guanghui sat in the back seat.
"Junior Brother Bao, tell me, why did you pay such a price to help Su Zhe? Even if Su Zhe is the provincial champion and a mathematical genius, there is no need to do this. Still find something special about Su Zhe?" Niu Guanghui was very curious. .
Bao Zhengyi coughed and said without changing his expression: "I am doing it for our Lingzhou Institute of Technology and our School of Physics. I don't want to give up a genius like Su Zhe to Tsinghua University or Yanda. Do you know how talented Su Zhe is?" ? Let’s put it this way! The three of us tied together don’t even have the genius Su Zhe.”
"It's such an exaggeration. You didn't deceive me. The deceit will be exposed sooner or later." Niu Guanghui smiled, "You don't know, in the morning, the teacher had a big fight with the principal Xu Zhengping in the principal's office in order to get the policy. In the end, The principal reluctantly accepted, but there was one condition: Su Zhe was asked to take a set of test papers, and the score only needs to exceed 80 points."
Now the school has spread that his teacher, Academician Wang Xiuqi, had a big fight with the principal because he wanted to use the back door for relatives' children.
"Take a test paper, what test paper?" Bao Zhengyi asked.
"That one is a question from the national competition training team. There are fifteen fill-in-the-blank questions and one answer question from each of the five subjects of mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology, and informatics. The total number is seventy-five. Fill-in-the-blank questions, five answer questions, full score of 100 points." Niu Guanghui explained.
"You guys, you've gone too far! I won't talk about the first four subjects. What's the matter with informatics? Su Zhe has never received relevant training. You are cheating people." Bao Zhengyi said angrily.
"This is the compromise condition of Principal Xu Zhengping. After all, the conditions you proposed are too harsh. No classes, no exams... By the way, the principal agreed to give Su Zhe freedom in study and scientific research, but he needs to achieve corresponding results every year, or pass On-site assessment by the school’s academic committee.” Niu Guanghui added.
Bao Zhengyi nodded and said, "This is more reasonable. I think Su Zhe will accept it."
Absolute freedom is not a good thing, and proper assessment is still necessary.
After the two talked about Su Zhe, they talked about topics related to domestic EUV lithography machines and chip manufacturing processes below five nanometers.
Fan Xiaoming listened while driving, feeling very uncomfortable.
At present, in China, what can be independently controlled is the manufacturing of chips with 28 nanometer and above process technology.
Chips with the 14nm process technology can be produced domestically, but related equipment is highly dependent on imports.
As for 14nm and below, it is currently not possible to manufacture it domestically.
Now, the most advanced chip manufacturing technology in the world is 3 nanometers.
14nm, 7nm, 5nm, and then 3nm are four generations more advanced than domestic ones.
And these people, as well as related universities and institutions, directly skipped the previous three generations and directly studied the 3-nanometer chip manufacturing process.
Related equipment such as etching machines, thin film silencer equipment, etc. have been solved, leaving only the core photolithography machine.
The three major problems in lithography machines are EUV light source, dual workpiece stage and optical lens. Among them, the problem of dual workpiece stage has been solved.
Regarding the problem of EUV light sources, although the synchrotron radiation light source developed by Tsinghua University is extremely energy-consuming, it can be used.
Finally, there are the optical lenses.
As far as he knows, there are more than five teams that specialize in researching optical lenses. Plus some unknown teams, there are many teams involved in EUV optical lens research.
Relatively speaking, the Optical Lens Research Center of Shangling University is at the forefront. Once the ion beam polishing technology is broken through, the problem of EUV lithography machine optical lenses will be solved.
At that time, the manufacturing of EUV lithography machines was no longer a problem, which also meant that they were able to catch up around corners and master the independent and controllable 3-nanometer chip manufacturing process.
He felt that it was almost time to break through the ion beam polishing technology. Even if Su Zhe did not make any progress, they could almost succeed in two more rounds on their own.
