From all-round academic master to chief scientist - Chapter 260 The Effect of a Letter

One day later.

In Yan Beiyuan’s house, Lin Xiao’s eyes were fixed on a paper on the screen.

This paper talks about Lin’s aluminum bonding mechanism.

This bonding mechanism was studied by a chemist in Germany. Because aluminum is widely used and the cost of aluminum is low enough, there are many people studying aluminum. This paper on the bonding mechanism of aluminum is cited. The amount is quite large, at least more than Lin Xiao’s article on titanium bonding mechanism.

Soon, he finished reading the paper.

In fact, it is not that he has finished reading it. For him, after reading the abstract, he basically knows how this person did the research. Then he roughly browses the table of contents and reads the introduction of each section. He basically understands how this person did the research. You can write this paper in your own way.

Therefore, he can read a paper very quickly.

After reading this paper, he had read all the papers related to Lin’s bonding mechanism.

These papers are basically conducted along the lines of his thesis. First, they study the particle structures of several existing objects, analyze the electronic structures of the chemical bonds, and then use them to establish several structures according to Lin Xiao’s method. A unique mathematical model. Through this mathematical model, it can be analyzed under different situations, and finally the entire mechanism can be summarized.

So, this mathematical model is a key.

Without the titanium mathematical model established by Lin Xiao, other researchers who wanted to study this problem would first have to be on par with him in terms of mathematical ability.

But obviously, in the world of materials science and chemistry, it is basically rare to have mathematical abilities like his. Even if someone has mathematical abilities like his, they may not be researching in this direction.

“Then, I should also conduct research based on this mathematical model now.”

Recalling the related properties of silicon, Lin Xiao started thinking.

Since there is no bonding mechanism of silicon yet, it means that past research on the bonding mechanism of silicon has failed. The range of applications of silicon is no less than that of aluminum. Someone will definitely study this bonding mechanism of silicon.

In this case, there is no need for him to collect data from scratch to study it. He can just look for the failed research results.

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

So he quickly entered arxiv and started searching.

Sure enough, after a while, he found two articles, two from a chemistry professor at MIT and a materials science professor from ETH Zurich.

Soon, after downloading these two papers, Lin Xiao started reading them.

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

Both papers found several pure substances made of silicon, namely silicon element and silicon compounds.

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

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

Of course, the professors at these two prestigious universities are very powerful, and there is no shortage of people who are strong in mathematics in the research team, but they still failed.

Lin Xiao saw that in the end, the professor at MIT failed because several formulas in the mathematical model could not form an organic connection. Moreover, they had spent all their efforts and could not combine the various parameters in the mathematical model. Blend to a harmonious state.

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 but fall into thinking.

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

This is equally 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 no way to explain the loss and gain process of the four layers of electrons in silicon.”

“Electronics…electrons…”

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

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

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

However, to have a systematic understanding of it requires some very abstract mathematical theories, such as cohomology theory and ligation theory. People who are better at studying mathematics obviously do not study chemistry or condensed matter very much. People who study chemistry or condensed matter obviously do not necessarily fully understand these two theories, so the research on material states 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 be related to this thing.

He even had a vague feeling in his heart that if this thing was researched, 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 needed.”

Lin Xiao’s eyes were suddenly shocked.

85 points of truth!

Amazing value!

But he soon realized that the truth is so expensive, and if he wants to solve it, it may be another pitfall.

Touching his face, he didn’t feel troublesome, but he sighed in his heart that he would have to do a lot of things in the future.

“Well, let’s give it a try.”

Lin Xiao stopped thinking about it and started researching.

…

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

For someone of his level, attending meetings at the National Council is very common.

However, after the meeting, he did not leave in a hurry. Instead, he went to the door of an office, took out a letter from his arms, and said to the leadership secretary at the door: “Secretary Li, this is written by Professor Lin Xiao Letter, he asked me to forward it to the leader.”

“OK.”

Secretary Li nodded. His leader had reminded him many times that anything about Professor Lin must be reported as soon as possible, so he took it very seriously.

After taking 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 the letter that Director Ma handed over to Professor Lin Xiao. I want to show it to you.”

“Um.”

The old man nodded and his eyes flashed. Lin Xiao wrote a letter specifically to him?

He had always cared about that young man, a top scientific genius, especially since Lin Xiao had taken root in semiconductor research after returning, allowing them to achieve many breakthroughs in the country, which made him feel very gratified.

Some time ago, Lin Xiao said that he wanted to build an X-ray lithography machine, which caused a lot of discussion. Many people at home and abroad expressed doubts about Lin Xiao, and many people wrote letters to the old man to question Lin Xiao. , thinking that he was wasting resources by building an X-ray lithography machine.

However, he suppressed all these.

Whatever is good in Lin Feng will be destroyed. Lin Xiao will certainly be jealous of others if he gets so many resources from the country.

However, as Lin Xiao’s backer, he was naturally able to block these worldly matters for Lin Xiao.

Although he couldn’t change the worldliness of the Chinese scientific community, there was still no problem in helping a person avoid these things.

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

He waved his hand and said to the secretary: “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, but after reading it, the old man felt extremely pleasantly surprised.

Start assembling a photolithography machine? !

Lin Xiao, this is…

Already confident of success?

After thinking for a moment, he called the secretary in again and asked the secretary to call Director Ma over.

Director Ma didn’t go far. He just arrived at the parking lot and soon received a call from Secretary Li.

“Want me to go back? Do you have something to discuss?…Okay, okay! It’s coming, it’s coming.”

After putting down the phone, he immediately ran over, and at the same time he couldn’t help but look forward to it.

I just handed over Lin Xiao’s letter, and then I have to go to him to discuss things. This must be something important!

There must be something important written in Lin Xiao’s letter.

And that’s a good thing too.

Thinking of this, his pace quickened again, and soon he arrived at the office. He heard that he was actually planning to start assembling a photolithography machine!

For a moment, if he hadn’t considered that this was the leader’s office, he would have laughed out loud.

Lin Xiaodu said he was going to assemble a photolithography machine, so he must be sure!

When the leader came to him, the matter was very simple. He was asked to contact Lin Xiao and various companies to make advance preparations for assembling the X-ray lithography machine, and to decide on all the meetings that should be held and matters that should be discussed.

Director Ma naturally agreed to this.

“Remember, cooperate well with Lin Xiao. Whether China can catch up in semiconductors depends on this time!”

“yes!”

…

In the following period, meetings of various sizes and specifications were held, ranging from leaders to various enterprises.

Lin Xiao’s letter stirred up matters affecting tens of thousands of people.

And everyone knows such a thing——

Lin Xiao is about to officially start assembling the photolithography machine!