Siheyuan: Steel Mill Engineer

Chapter 154 Scientific Research
"No objection, but I have one thing to add. As members of the team, I hope that we can think and work together. I don't care about anything else."

Although Secretary Ning Chaohong is a female comrade, she speaks very competently and is very resolute.

"I have no problem at all. The leader has already explained everything before I came here. This is to serve scientific research. Other things should not happen in our institute." Deputy Director Kuang Weifang said.

"Well, since everyone has the same opinion, it will be easy." Qi Jianguang nodded and said.

"Engineer Yang, what are you going to research for the first project of our institute?" Qi Jianguang looked at Yang Zhenyu and asked.

"I wrote to my husband before, saying that I plan to research and develop topics related to semiconductor materials. This is the key to solving some of the current problems, and these materials will be of great help to our country, helping us avoid being strangled by foreign countries," said Yang Zhenyu.

"Is this topic difficult?" Ning Chaohong asked.

"Very big. With our current domestic technology, it is difficult to achieve mass production, especially mass production of equipment. The key is that I don't have any ready-made information, so I can only explore it step by step by myself, which makes it even more difficult." Yang Zhenyu nodded.

"No data? Then where do we start this research?" Qi Jianguang said with a frown.

"In the first step, we need to carry out purification and other work in the laboratory to clarify the principles and other issues first, and then study how to industrialize it. This needs to be done step by step and it is impossible to realize it all at once." Yang Zhenyu said with a smile.

"Leave professional matters to professionals, and we will ensure other aspects and make sure no other problems will arise. That's enough," said Ning Chaohong.

"That's right. We fully support the experiment," said Kuang Weifang.

"This work may be a long-term task and cannot be completed in a short time, but as long as it is completed, we can add a big brick to national construction," said Yang Zhenyu.

No one knows the difficulty of this project better than Yang Zhenyu. Not to mention other things, even the materials such as transistors and substrates are not easy to deal with.

After all, the early photolithography machines developed previously had too high requirements for the substrate, and one would burn out if one was not careful.

"If there are difficulties, we will slowly find a solution. If one year doesn't work, then two years will do. There will always be a day when the project will be completed." Qi Jianguang said.

"Well, after receiving the notification of the establishment of Institute 416, I have submitted the application report. The corresponding materials should be delivered in the next two days, and then we can conduct preliminary experiments." Yang Zhenyu said.

After receiving the notice from superiors, the factory started an underground laboratory.

It is called a laboratory, but in fact it is a place similar to an air-raid shelter, with tunnels and workrooms, and the guards only need to guard the entrance.

Although Yang Zhenyu believes that this project belongs to civilian technology, his superiors think that this project is more like a military project, because only the military industry needs so many semiconductor materials.

Especially things like integrated circuits, those are definitely projects that need to be protected.

So, Yang Zhenyu had no choice but to obey the order.

Materials technicians and engineers followed Yang Zhenyu into the laboratory. Although they still went to get off work and came home as usual every day, their workplace became the laboratory.

The remaining people have to deal with things in the factory at any time, such as machine maintenance and drawing various drawings.

"Engineer Yang, experiment number one has failed."

"Number two also failed!"

"Number three also failed."

"Engineer Yang, this experiment basically failed, except for No. 102. Although it did not fail, it did not succeed either." "Well, don't worry, if it fails, we will collect the statistics and then carry out the next round of experiments. What we need to do is to determine the steps through experiments, and then proceed to the next step." Yang Zhenyu nodded and said.

It is normal for experiments to fail. No experiment can be successful every time. Moreover, laboratory methods are different from industrial methods.

When Yang Zhenyu was in school, he had seen all kinds of experiments fail, so an experiment that succeeded at one time was considered new.

"Engineer Yang, is our research direction wrong?" someone questioned.

"Theoretically, it's correct. These materials are minerals. We just need to purify them in the first step and remove the excess..."

There are a lot of things in theory, but there are still some difficulties in actual operation.

Just like this experiment, the results were very unsatisfactory.

"Comrades, don't be discouraged. It is normal for this kind of experiment to fail a few times. Let's keep working hard." Yang Zhenyu encouraged the technicians.

There is no such thing as smooth sailing on the road of science. Everything requires many repeated attempts.

While experiments were being carried out in the laboratory, other groups could not stop either. Yang Zhenyu gave them the design and drawings of the drilling rig.

Since mining is required, a drilling rig for prospecting is definitely indispensable.

Yang Zhenyu and his team had experience in producing drilling rigs, and their drawings and design plans were well preserved.

Although the two machines are different, they are essentially the same, just with different tasks to be done.

Prospecting drills require more professional drill bits and probe tubes, and of course, a more professional team is needed to operate and complete geological analysis.

"Hello, I'm Yang Zhenyu!" Yang Zhenyu said as he picked up the intercom.

"Engineer Yang, Section Chief Tian from the Propaganda Department wants to see you about something. When do you think you can come back?" Yu Caiying said.

"Wait a moment, I'll be there soon." Yang Zhenyu said and hung up the phone.

Tin Kai Man was the first factory cadre to come to him for help, so he should be taken seriously. This would determine whether other people would come to him for help in the future, so he had to set a good example.

"Continue the experiment, I'm going to go out for a while." Yang Zhenyu gave instructions, then changed his clothes and left the laboratory after being checked by the guards.

There is no way. The guards will not stop checking just because Yang Zhenyu is the chief engineer. After all, everything in the laboratory is very important.

Moreover, these guards are not from the factory security department, but are sent by higher authorities.

On the one hand, it was to protect the laboratory and the researchers; on the other hand, it was also to prevent secrets from being leaked. After all, there were still many enemy spies during this period.

"Engineer Yang!" Tian Qiwen quickly stood up and said when he saw Yang Zhenyu coming in.

"Why are you here, Chief Tian? Come and sit down." Yang Zhenyu said, pointing at the chair.

"Aren't these the programs that Engineer Yang gave us before? Now we're encountering some problems," said Tin Kai Man.

(End of this chapter)