I really just want to be a scholar

Chapter 807 I'm [-]% sure!

NTU’s Institute of Chip Technology is also quite well-known 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. The second prize of natural science is regarded as an authority in this field in China, and once held the title of technical consultant in several domestic chip manufacturers.

It’s just that he is over 70 years old, and his health is not very good. He is basically unable to undertake heavy research tasks, so he is basically in a state of half-illness and retirement. The chip technology research institute of Nantah University 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 theme of the meeting is naturally next year's funding application.

It’s just that this meeting is a bit special. Paper and pens are not allowed in the meeting. All electronic equipment must be put in a shielded cabinet before entering the meeting room. Before entering the meeting room, staff will check everyone with hand-held electronic detectors.

"This meeting will not be recorded, and it is not allowed to be disseminated in any form." Professor Li Junlu scanned the audience, his eyes were like lightning, with a sense of majesty.

Although he is only in his early forties, he has a straight face all day long, giving people the feeling of being extremely difficult to get along with, and he is never soft on the whole. The technicians in the institute are quite afraid of this Professor Li.

At this time, all the researchers who made eye contact with him quickly lowered their heads or looked away, not daring to meet his gaze.

Seeing that everyone was overwhelmed, Professor Li Junlu said coldly: "I heard that some people have some criticisms about the funding application report submitted by the institute, thinking that it violates academic principles. I will spread the word today and say that a research institute What is the most important thing? Funding! If there is no funding, how can there be money to pay you wages? How can there be money to buy materials for experiments? Then what are you talking about to make a career?"

The whole place was quiet.

"It is true that the chip is a key scientific research project supported by the country, but there are more than 1000 domestic laboratories and research institutes that study the direction of carbon-based chip technology! And last year, the number increased by more than 200! What does this mean? It means that the original As long as there are more monks and less porridge, and now there are 200 more mouths to eat, the porridge will be even less!”

Professor Li Junlu stared at a 35-year-old man with a Chinese character face who was frowning, and said coldly: "Now the institute is under a lot of pressure. If there are some things that need to be handled in a hurry, the report must be strictly controlled." Beautification, we will get less porridge in our hands next year than this year! Your salary will be reduced! Whoever opposes this kind of "beautification" will 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 all their eyes fell on the man with the square face.

The man with the square face got up slowly, and said: "Brother Li, I think that is no longer 'beautification', but 'falsification'! This 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 being a 'breakthrough', let alone a successful imitation. In that report, it claimed to have successfully developed a 'T-shaped special-shaped carbon nanotube', and modified the data. This is not What is fraud? The teacher will be very angry and disappointed when he finds out about it..."

Professor Li Junlu said impatiently: "Can you stop thinking about it! 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 imitate it. 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 Xia Renliang, his junior, for a long time. If it weren't for the "T-shaped special-shaped carbon nanotubes" that required him to carry out those key technological breakthroughs, how could Li Junlu tolerate him?
Xia Renliang is indeed a rare talent.He is a closed disciple of the old Academician Guo Yuanbiao. He is very talented in semiconductor materials, superconducting materials and chip materials. He was rated as a full professor in his early 30s. If he is not too young, the seniors in the institute are not convinced He, who is currently in charge of the work of the institute, will be him.

Li Junlu was tactful, and he was very good at communication before he took office, so he won a large number of people to support him, which made the old academician Guo Yuanbiao finally hand over the research institute to him.

However, Li Junlu changed his face after he took office. In order to win the scientific research capital for his evaluation as an academician, he used strict management methods to squeeze the technical personnel in the research institute, and spent a lot of money to get a small amount from a foreign research institute. T-shaped special-shaped carbon nanotubes" come back, and I want to use this as a breakthrough to achieve research results that are outstanding in the country.

However, it is extremely difficult to understand the technical principle of this "T-shaped special-shaped carbon nanotube" and to imitate it. Li Junlu personally led the team to tackle the problem for more than half a year, but there was no result. In the end, it was Xia Renliang who first studied its general composition and proposed An overall more reliable imitation idea.

This made Li Junlu both happy and jealous, and this Xia Renliang is a brainless person. This time, in order to get more research funding for next year, Li Junlu asked Xia Renliang to "beautify" the report, but Xia Renliang directly refused, making Li Junlu angry The table was slapped on the spot.

Because Xia Renliang has been unwilling to cooperate, in the end Li Junlu had to do it himself to complete the "beautification" of the report...

What made Li Junlu even more annoyed was that Xia Renliang actually wanted to write a letter to his teacher, academician Guo Yuanbiao, to inform him of this matter - the old academician Guo had undergone heart surgery, and currently he is not allowed to touch electronic products with radio signals, and can only communicate by letter - this is even more serious. Touched Li Junlu's backlash, so today's "criticism meeting" was held...

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

Li Junlu interrupted coldly: "But it won't increase! It's not clear to you that the imitation experiment of 'T-shaped special-shaped carbon nanotubes' will cost a lot of money. How long will it take us to successfully imitate it without the strong support of funds? Not to mention the carbon-based chips prepared by the subsequent 90nm process!"

Li Junlu also missed a word, that is, "Without these achievements, what can I use to compete for an academician?"

Xia Renliang argued with reason: "I still oppose counterfeiting. As long as we have normal funds, we can spend more time and effort to understand the technical principles inside, reduce the number of imitation experiments, the actual progress will not be much slower, and we can cooperate with other Teamwork in a similar direction to jointly tackle technical problems..."

"We have our own way to succeed in research, why should we share the credit with others!" This "T-shaped special-shaped carbon nanotube" was brought back by Li Junlu's painstaking thinking, and it is the greatest capital for him to apply for academicians in the future. Institute share?

Xia Renliang was also blushing: "Senior Brother Li, your so-called 'method' is wrong. Once the superiors find out, it will seriously affect the reputation of our research institute, and even self-defeating..."

Li Junlu laughed angrily, and interrupted again: "Discovered? If you don't say it, and the people present don't say it, can the people who review the report have such a level to be able to find it? Don't talk about the person who reviewed the report, look at the country. , which other experts can have such a high level of carbon nanotube technology, and can find the traces of "beautification" inside? What's more, we have also handed over a small section of "T-shaped special-shaped carbon nanotubes" as evidence! I will now use the research The identity of the person in charge warns you, Junior Brother Xia, the report has been handed in, you better keep your mouth shut, the teacher has devoted all his life to this institute, if the reputation of this institute is damaged, I think you have Why face to see the teacher!"

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

……

With Qin Ke's popularity at this time, many people are paying attention to his every move. If he visits Yang Chengke's office and stays for a long time during such a sensitive period when he is discussing next year's scientific research funding, it will definitely arouse all kinds of guesses from many interested people.

In the end, for the sake of prudence, Uncle Yang did not ask Qin Ke to 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. circle, it was delivered to Qin Ke without anyone noticing it.

After Qin Ke saw the report, he took the small piece of carbon nanotube material to the Lime Quantum Computing Laboratory and stayed for about half a day. That night, the report and the carbon nanotube material were sent back to Uncle Yang's in the office.

Uncle Yang called immediately: "How?"

Qin Ke pondered and said: "It's a bit strange, their carbon nanotube materials are indeed at the top level in China in terms of electrical conductivity and energy consumption, and they are not even inferior to foreign advanced levels. It can be judged from this that their carbon nanotube materials are at the top level in China. The research on alkenes has reached the world-class level."

Uncle Yang was refreshed. Although he believed in and was more optimistic about the chip material team led by Qin Ke, he would be happy to see a good situation where a hundred flowers bloom in the country, so he was a little excited and said: "You mean their project It has indeed achieved excellent results, is it really possible to break through the technical bottleneck of 28nm carbon-based chips within three to five years?"

Qin Ke shook his head and said: "The thinking and logic of the report itself are not problematic, but there are loopholes in many details, and the data is quite different from the reality. It is probably fabricated for this carbon nanotube material."

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

"There are indeed frauds. In fact, the technical ideas in their reports are correct, but there are still many key technical points that they have not made breakthroughs. For example, when they mentioned the purification of graphene, the core material of carbon-based chips, they said that chemical precipitation was used, but according to The experimental method they mentioned, only adding concentrated sulfuric acid and concentrated nitric acid to react graphite, supplemented by their so-called high-precision precipitation operation, cannot obtain the single-layer graphene necessary for the performance of this carbon nanotube material."

Qin Ke said affirmatively: "Although I don't know how they obtained this carbon nanotube material, even if they conduct research according to the ideas in this report for another three years, they may not be able to overcome all the key technologies and manufacture out of the same carbon nanotube material."

Qin Ke now holds "A New Type of Carbon Crystalline Composite Nanomaterial Production Process Suitable for 1nm Chips" and has been studying superconducting materials for a long time. Knowledge, when it comes to the understanding of mainstream chip materials, there are not many people in the world who can surpass him.

So he only looked through the report of the Institute of Chip Technology of Nantah University, and found that there were many plausible problems in it. Later, after measuring the corresponding carbon nanotube materials with instruments in the Quantum Computing Laboratory, he quickly confirmed himself. guess.

The idea of ​​the report is okay, it is basically correct, and most of the content is fine, but the key technical details and data are either vague or wrongly fabricated according to logic.

"If I'm not wrong." Qin Ke continued: "They obtained this piece of carbon nanotube material first, and then began to conduct various researches on it, trying to imitate it. Their level is good, and they have indeed achieved a lot. At least the research idea is correct, and they also came up with the 'graphene-carbon nanotube special-shaped structure technology', but the results so far are actually very limited. They wrote such a report in order to get more funding If the research process goes smoothly, they will probably be able to successfully imitate this section of carbon nanotube material within three to four years, but it will take seven years at the earliest to launch a carbon-based chip made with a 90nm process."

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

Carbon-based chips prepared by 90nm process will be launched after seven years?Even if the performance is equivalent to 28nm silicon-based chips, it is far behind the times. It is estimated that top foreign chip manufacturers have launched 2nm silicon-based chips on the market at that time, and the 1nm silicon-based chips prepared in the laboratory are also It is very possible that even greater breakthroughs have been made on carbon-based chips.

If people like myself were deceived by the report of the Institute of Chip Technology of Nantah University and tilted a large amount of funds towards it, but seven years of full support only resulted in such an ending, I am afraid I would vomit three liters of blood!
Yang Chengke suppressed his anger and asked, "Qin Ke, how sure are you in your judgment?"

"Ninety-five percent or more. Uncle Yang, if you ask them to hand over some more carbon nanotube materials of this kind, you can confirm what I just said. They can't make them, even if they still have some in stock, they will never There will be more, and I dare not promise how long it will take out.”

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

The country attaches great importance to scientific research, but the stall is too large. On average, even for chips, which are extremely important, the research funds are limited. Naturally, we hope that good iron will be used wisely.

The problem is that most high-end technologies are money-swallowing "gold-swallowing beasts". It is not surprising that after spending ten or eight years of money, they can't produce excellent results. Without excellent results, it is difficult to apply for more funding confidently. In order to compete for funds, various project teams can only show their magical powers across the sea.

But blatantly falsifying for funds like this is definitely stepping on the red line. Once this trend is formed, it will only lead to those outstanding talents who are doing research steadily but cannot obtain enough funds because they refuse to falsify, and eventually leave the country to go abroad. research in other countries.

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

"Okay, thank you, Uncle Yang."

(End of this chapter)