From Almighty Scholar to Chief Scientist

Looking at Lin Xiao's young face, they couldn't help but sigh in their hearts. No wonder he became the director of such a key research institute at such a young age, and he deserves so much money from the country.

However, Lin Xiao didn't think too much. After the demonstration, he looked at the people present and said, "Okay, let's think about it now, how should we make it."

Hearing Lin Xiao's words, the people present immediately began to think.

Ordinary lenses do not need to consider production issues, only need to consider polishing issues, but the lens they need requires X-rays to penetrate directly into it.

Moreover, the energy of X-rays is very strong, and the temperature of the object after irradiation will also be increased. This requires that the thermal expansion coefficient of the material they designed is low enough. Of course, they have already considered this point. According to simulation calculations, their The thermal expansion coefficient of the material is very low, and there will be no problem even if it is exposed to X-rays for a long time.

However, these require a more perfect production process, and it is useless if they cannot be produced.

Of course, calculated in this way, the production cost of their lens will probably be much higher than the lens of the EUV lithography machine. Of course, they only need one piece, while the EUV lithography machine needs more than a dozen. So no matter how you calculate it, it is more convenient for them.

Everyone was thinking, and Lin Xiao was also thinking.

How to produce a new material from nothing is undoubtedly very complicated, and although they now know the crystal structure, at least not completely 'nothing', it is still very difficult to actually create it , which requires reference to various knowledge of materials science and chemistry, as well as knowledge of condensed matter.

No matter what, as long as it does not involve the use of weak or strong interaction science fiction materials, the materials for humans on earth are still limited to electromagnetic interaction materials.

So, that is the relationship between electrons.

Thinking of this, Lin Xiao suddenly remembered something.

"By the way, have any papers on Lin's silicon-bonding mechanism appeared? Or are they not found?"

"Lin's silicon-bonding mechanism? For this...it doesn't seem to exist." Zhao Sheng said.

"do not have it?"

Lin Xiao frowned slightly.

Lin's silicon bonding mechanism is the bonding mechanism of silicon found based on his Lin's titanium bonding mechanism and research methods.

This is also a default thing in the academic world. In terms of naming, all such bonding mechanisms found according to his method must be named Lin's bonding mechanism.

Although he did not research this thing himself, as No.1, he can naturally enjoy this kind of treatment, and it is also convenient for the academic circle to call it. Otherwise, in the future, a Zhang San carbon bonding mechanism, a Li The four-silicon bonding mechanism is obviously challenging the memory of scientists.

However, not every element has found this bonding mechanism, but only some elements have found it. For example, the bonding mechanism of silicon has not been found yet.

This is not because there is a certain problem in the mechanism of Lin's Chengjian, but it may be that there is still something to be explored in the mechanism of Lin's Chengjian. This also makes the academic circle very excited. Where the mechanism has not been excavated, will it be a new revolution in the chemical world?

After all, this is to explore the principles of the formation of various chemical bonds and explain the process. In this way, people can understand the reasons for the formation of various substances more fundamentally, thereby laying the foundation for controlling the formation of chemical bonds between elements.

Of course, there are some people who think that this is the limit of Lin's bonding mechanism. They cannot fully understand the process of chemical bond formation of all elements. They can only explain a small number of elements, while other elements need to follow another method to count. And this kind of statement also makes people think that these elements that can follow Lin's bonding mechanism all have the same nature, while other elements that do not follow Lin's bonding mechanism have other properties. It is like Fermi-Dirac statistics and Bose-Einstein statistics in quantum mechanics.

It's just that Lin Xiao has no time to take care of these things now. He just feels a little regretful in his heart now that the bonding mechanism of silicon has not yet appeared.

At the beginning, he deduced the bonding mechanism of titanium from the structure and various data of TA1000, so he knew the application potential of this mechanism better than anyone in the world. By using the bonding mechanism of silicon, there is a complete opportunity for him to design Produce the silicon material he needs now.

"Could it be that I'm going to go back to my old job again?"

He couldn't help thinking about it.

Want to figure out the silicon bonding mechanism?

This made him couldn't help complaining in his heart.

mmp, people in the field of chemistry and material science are too stretched now, right?

He handed over the methods and rules to them, but after more than two years, they have not even figured out the bonding mechanism of silicon.

It's a little too weak, right?

In the end, he had to submit the manuscript himself, which is really disappointing.

He sighed, and then he said: "Then you continue to think about it first, I will look at the bonding mechanism of several other elements, and see if I can study the bonding mechanism of silicon."

Hearing what Lin Xiao said, everyone's eyes lit up, but they became puzzled after a while.

Another researcher named Li Bin asked: "Director, do you think silicon will follow your bonding mechanism?"

Lin Xiao spread his hands and said, "Even if I don't follow it, it doesn't prevent me from giving it a try, right? It's all about research."

It's all the same to him anyway.

Hearing what Lin Xiao said, the others no longer had any doubts.

Indeed, it is all about research anyway, which direction is it not?

And if Lin Xiao can really study the bonding mechanism of silicon, it may indeed be of great help to them.

So now it seems that they have to divide into two ways to try to make a breakthrough for the preparation of this new silicon crystal.

Lin Xiao announced: "That's the end of today's meeting. After a week, there will be results. Let's continue the regular meeting."

"it is good."

The others nodded one after another, and then they left the meeting room without saying anything more.

……

Chapter 261 The Effect of a Letter

a day later.

In Yanbeiyuan's house, Lin Xiao stared at a paper on the screen.

This paper is about Lin's Al-bonding mechanism.

This bonding mechanism was researched by a German chemist. Because aluminum is used in a wide range and the cost of aluminum is low enough, there are many studies on aluminum. This paper on the aluminum bonding mechanism quotes The amount is quite a lot, at least more than Lin Xiao's titanium bonding mechanism.

Soon, he finished reading the paper.

In fact, he didn’t finish reading it. For him, after reading the abstract, he basically knew how this person did his research. Then he browsed the table of contents roughly and read the introduction of each section. He basically You can write this paper in your own way.

Therefore, the speed at which he reads a paper is quite fast.

And after reading this paper, he has read all the papers related to Lin's bonding mechanism.

These papers are basically researches along the lines of his papers. First, they study the particle structures of several existing objects, analyze the electronic structures of chemical bonds in them, and then use them to establish several A unique mathematical model, through this mathematical model, is substituted into different situations for analysis, and finally the whole mechanism can be summarized.

So, this mathematical model is a key.

Without the titanium mathematical model established by Lin Xiao, if other researchers want to study this problem, they must first be on par with him in terms of mathematical ability at that time.

But obviously, in the field of materials science and chemistry, it is basically rare to have his kind of mathematical ability. Even if he has his kind of mathematical ability, he may not be researching in this direction.

"Then, I should also conduct research from this mathematical model now."

Recalling the related properties of silicon, Lin Xiao thought about it.

Since there is no bonding mechanism of silicon, it means that the research on the bonding mechanism of silicon has failed in the past. The scope of application of silicon is no less than that of aluminum, and someone will definitely study the bonding mechanism of silicon.

That being the case, there is no need for him to collect data from scratch for research. He can just look for those failed research results.

These failed results may not be published in journals, but they can definitely be found on arxiv.

So he quickly entered arxiv and started looking for it.

Sure enough, within a short while, he found two articles, one from a professor of chemistry at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and one from a professor of materials science at ETH Zurich.

Soon, after downloading these two papers, Lin Xiao began to read them.

The methods of these two papers are similar, after all, they are based on his original research.

Both papers found several pure substances made of silicon element, that is, silicon element and silicon compound.

Then they built a mathematical model according to Lin Xiao's method.

In this step, even with Lin Xiao’s guidance, because elements are very different from each other, for example, titanium has four outer nuclear electron shells, while silicon has three outer nuclear electron shells. According to the electron orbital theory, the Their nature requires a new division, so it is still difficult to build a mathematical model.

Of course, the professors of these two prestigious schools are very powerful, and it is impossible for the research team to lack people with strong mathematics skills, but they still failed.

Lin Xiao saw that in the end, the professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology failed because the several formulas between the mathematical models could not form an organic connection, and they had exhausted their efforts, and there was no way to combine the various parameters in the mathematical model. To reconcile to a state of harmony.

The professor of materials science at ETH Zurich encountered similar problems.

"Why... does this mathematical model fail?"

After sorting out the two mathematical models, Lin Xiao couldn't help thinking.

There is still a certain connection between the two models. Lin Xiao took out the paper and pen, and began to try to connect the two models.

This point is also difficult, but it is for other people, but for Lin Xiao, this step is not difficult, so he simply wrote down a few formulas, and he organized the two models into one model .

"The main reason for the failure of this model is that there is still no way to explain the process of losing and gaining electrons in the four layers of silicon."

"Electron...Electron..."

Looking at the incomplete mathematical model in front of him, Lin Xiao suddenly thought of something, that is, the symmetric protected topological order.

In condensed matter physics, most condensed matter materials such as metals and insulators can ignore the interaction between electrons, which is well explained under the framework of Landau-Fermi liquid theory.The interacting electrons will form a very rich symmetry-breaking order, while the symmetry-preserving topological order is a newly discovered state of matter, which can also be understood as the internal structure of matter.

This point discusses the various relationships that occur between electrons in matter.

However, if you want to understand it systematically, you need some very abstract mathematical theories, such as cohomology theory and pairing theory, and those who are better at studying mathematics obviously don't study chemistry or condensed matter very much. Those who study chemistry or condensed matter obviously do not necessarily fully understand these two theories, so the research on the state of matter such as symmetry-protected topological order is not in-depth.

But Lin Xiao was different.

He understands both of them very well, so when he looks at this mathematical model now, the intuition in his mind tells him that it may have something to do with this thing.

He even had a faint feeling in his heart that if he researched this thing, it would be very valuable.

He frowned, and asked in his mind: "System, how many truth points are needed to solve this problem?"

System: "Based on the host's current subject level, 85 truth points are required."

Lin Xiao's eyes suddenly trembled.

85 truth points!

Amazing value!

But soon he realized that truth points are so expensive, and if he wants to solve it, I am afraid it will be another pitfall.

Touching his face, he didn't feel troubled, but he felt in his heart that there would be a lot of things to do in the future.

"Well, let's try it."

Lin Xiao stopped thinking about it and started to study it.

……

While Lin Xiao was studying his stuff, Director Ma on the other side was attending a meeting in the State Council.

For his level, it is very common to go to the National Council to attend meetings.

However, after the meeting ended, he did not leave in a hurry. Instead, he went to the door of an office, took out a letter from his pocket, and said to the leading secretary at the door: "Secretary Li, this is written by Professor Lin Xiao." He asked me to forward the letter to the leader."

"Ok."

Secretary Li nodded. His leader had reminded him many times that anything related to that Professor Lin should be reported immediately, so he attached great importance to it.

After receiving the envelope handed over by Director Ma, he knocked on the door and walked in.

Handing the letter to the old man, he said, "This is a letter delivered by Director Ma on behalf of Professor Lin Xiao, and I want to show it to you."

"Ah."

The old man nodded, his eyes flickered, Lin Xiao wrote him a letter?

He has always cared about that young man, a top scientific genius, especially after Lin Xiao came back and took root in the research of semiconductors, which made them achieve many breakthroughs in China, which made him feel very gratified.

Some time ago, Lin Xiao said that he wanted to build an X-ray engraving machine, which caused a lot of discussion. Many people, both at home and abroad, expressed doubts about Lin Xiao, and many people wrote letters to the old man, questioning Lin Xiao. He thinks that he is wasting resources by engaging in X-lithography machines.

However, these were suppressed by him.

Mu Xiuyu will be destroyed by Lin Feng, and Lin Xiao will of course be envied by others when he gets so many resources from the country.

However, as Lin Xiao's backer, he can naturally block Lin Xiao from these things in the world.

Although he can't change the human nature of Huaguo's scientific community, it's okay to help a person avoid these things.

So, what kind of surprise is hidden in this letter?

He waved his hand and said to the secretary, "Let's go out first."

"Ok."

The secretary nodded and walked out of the office. Then the old man opened the envelope and took out the letter paper inside.

There were only a few simple sentences on the letter paper, but after reading it, the old man was very pleasantly surprised.

Start to assemble the lithography machine? !

Lin Xiao, this is...