(The new book "Back to the Ming Dynasty to Open a Factory" was released, asking for support)

In recent days, Zhu Mingzhong has been in a very good mood!

Of course, this is not just because of Han Bingling's relationship, although there are certain reasons.

In the final analysis, the reason why I feel good is because of my career. Walked into the company briskly, and now the company is no longer as "emergency overcome" as it was at the beginning, but has a full two-story building, and the equipment in the company's laboratory is becoming more and more perfect.

"Alright, everyone's here!"

As soon as he entered the laboratory, Zhu Mingzhong called everyone over, and then casually wrote three words "tape" on the blackboard, then drew a cross mark, and finally wrote a question mark.

Qian Le and the others couldn't help but lose their temper when they saw the three words of the tape on the blackboard crossed out, and they even ignored the faintly visible scratches on the boss's neck.

"As you know, at the beginning, I chose the audio tape, but now I have encountered a real problem, not only the recording material of the target of the tape makes its recording quality average, but more importantly, some technical problems at present, so that the player and so on have encountered problems."

When looking at everyone, Zhu Mingzhong's eyes were full of fighting spirit, he took out a plan book vertically, and then said.

"So, there is a problem that the company needs to solve in the future!"

Turning around, Zhu Mingzhong directly wrote three big-character transistors on the blackboard!

After writing these three big characters, Zhu Mingzhong drew two horizontal bars under the words, and then said.

"Next, we're going to develop it!"

"Transistors?"

Qian Le and the others were puzzled by their goals, and for them, this was obviously a completely new field.

"yes, it's a transistor, let's put it that way......"

After a moment of silence, Zhu Mingzhong began to explain his idea.

"Everyone is very familiar with the tube, whether it is a TV, a radio, all of which are inseparable from the tube, but the tube has a large volume, large power consumption and other shortcomings, after all, every tube, is a small light bulb, even if it is a small tube, can not meet the needs of future development, at present, people urgently need a small, low power consumption electronic device, to replace the tube......"

In the past few days, Zhu Mingzhong has not been idle, he will look up relevant materials in the library every day, and finally, he made a decision to study transistors.

Although the electron tube has been invented for more than 70 years, the research on transistors is almost zero, of course, only almost, in fact, scholars of this era have also noticed the existence of semiconductors, just as more than 100 years ago, more than 20 years after the invention of the electric light, people noticed the "Edison effect", and finally developed the electron tube based on it. In the same way, they also noticed semiconductors.

“…… Due to the poor efficiency of the tube in processing high-frequency signals, people in this era were also trying to improve the ore tentacle geophones used in ore radios. In this type of geophone, there is a wire that is in contact with the surface of the ore, which allows the signal current to flow in one direction and prevents it from flowing in the opposite direction. In the past few years, when a number of experiments, such as the Qinghe Physics Laboratory, were looking for a detector material with better performance than the galena crystals used in the early days, they found that the performance of germanium crystals doped with some very small amounts of impurities was not only better than that of ore crystals, but also better than electron tube rectifiers in some aspects. ”

To some extent, science needs to be accumulated, and although technological progress in this era has been relatively slow, many scientific discoveries have not been overlooked, as is the case with electron tubes, and the same is true for semiconductors.

"In the past few years, many laboratories have also made a lot of achievements in the manufacturing and theoretical research of silicon and germanium materials. They all seem to have ignored them, though. ”

It's not that they choose to ignore it, but because the world has no pressure, unlike another time and space, this time and space has not experienced a world war, and the only "world war" is the "civilization expedition" in some regions, the purpose of which is to eliminate barbarism, and that is the all-round crushing of barbarism by civilization, in addition to stimulating people's enthusiasm for the study of high-energy explosives, magazines, rifles and machine guns, it only gave birth to "inventions" such as automobiles and armored vehicles.

Without the pressure of war or national competition, scientific and technological progress in this era was slow. What are the roots of the great development of science and technology after World War II? It was the competitive pressure for the survival of the nation due to ideology during the Cold War. And here, of course, there is no such pressure. Precisely because there is no such pressure, capital gravitates towards technological improvement rather than research, which is really ...... So Zhu Mingzhong didn't know what to say.

"So, in order to overcome the limitations of tubes, I knew that we could do basic research on solid-state electronics. My initial idea is that we can focus on silicon as a semiconductor material, especially the former, and investigate the possibility of using semiconductor materials to make amplifier devices......"

Possibility!

For the outside world, of course, this is just a possibility, but for Zhu Mingzhong, who comes from the Internet era, he clearly knows what the future is, transistors, integrated circuits, chips...... Even, if it weren't for the fact that he was trapped in funding, he would have wanted to develop an electronic computer. After all, computers are the future.

After all, the textbooks and materials he read in high school and college have physical knowledge related to transistors, and all that is needed now is to technically manufacture qualified "PN junction transistors".

"Studying silicon?"

Qian Le, who was full of doubts, opened the plan, and then, the whole person was immediately immersed in the content of the plan, and after a long time, he raised his head and looked at the boss and said.

"It seems that in order to realize this possibility, pure silicon must be manufactured first."

"Is it difficult with current technology?"

"It's difficult, but it doesn't seem to be difficult, and I think we can do it."

Some great careers always start from an inconspicuous beginning, Yongping fifty years of August 13 is not worth mentioning a day, but no one knows, this day for the Ming Dynasty, but it means the opening of a new era after decades of silence, the Ming Dynasty will sail away again.

The research of transistors was not as smooth as Zhu Mingzhong imagined, even if he clearly wrote down the path to develop it, in an ideal state, only need to be "manufactured", but it turned out that it was only an "ideal state", in fact, from the beginning of the manufacture of "pure silicon", the laboratory was faced with one technical difficulty after another, and in order to solve the technical problems had to recruit new employees.

It was in this process that Qian Le found that in the physics laboratory of Qinghe Academy, it had long been discovered that germanium single crystal had excellent rectification performance that other semiconductors did not have, so he immediately recruited relevant personnel to join the laboratory to study silicon crystals.

Although most of the time, Zhu Mingzhong only pointed out the path, but still shortened the development time of transistors to a large extent, especially after the manufacture of pure silicon with relatively high purity, the research of transistors has also been much smoother.

It was also at this time that Sun Mengqi, who had been staying in the laboratory and engaged in sulfonamide drug research, came to him again and said directly.

"You can't go on like this."

"What?"

Zhu Mingzhong looked at her puzzled.

"At present, the funds supporting the company are bank loans, if you blindly increase the investment in the physical laboratory, and there is no further results in the drug trial, the bank will soon intervene, don't forget, the loan we get is conditional, and the bank is also responsible for supervising the use of our funds."

When reminding him, Sun Mengqi was in a rather unhappy mood, because the boss in front of him, like a shopkeeper, completely put aside the drug research and concentrated on the study of the transistor, although she had expected such a result, but she still hoped that Zhu Mingzhong could give some guidance in her heart, after all, as far as she knew, the drug sulfonamide seemed to be a group result in the laboratory on the surface, but in fact he played a leading role in the research process, just like the current transistor research, The dozens of employees he now employs are just responsible for bringing his ideas to life, and that's it.

"Hmmm......"

After pondering for a moment, Zhu Mingzhong said.

"We are engaged in chemical drug research, so we definitely need to hire a group of professionals in chemistry and physics, which can be explained."

Looking at Sun Mengqi, Zhu Mingzhong asked.

"Don't worry, I know that this loan was won by you with your family connections, you have to believe me, the transistor market and profits in the future will exceed your imagination,"

Facing Zhu Mingzhong's answer, Sun Mengqi said directly.

"I know, you must have your thoughts, but...... I need your help, some guidance. ”

Although he didn't want to admit it, Sun Mengqi did encounter some problems.

"Got a problem?"

Looking at Sun Mengqi who was full of expectations, Zhu Mingzhong couldn't help but feel a big head, what guidance could he give? If you knew how to synthesize sulfonamides, you would have been doing research in this area for a long time.

"I did run into some problems, and as I researched it, I found ......"

Listening to Sun Mengqi's narration, Zhu Mingzhong, who seemed to be smiling, had only one thought in his heart, that is, how to send her away, how to properly handle this matter, maybe he should change his mind.

"The ......"

Looking at Sun Mengqi, after she finished saying that she had encountered some problems, Zhu Mingzhong smiled.

"Mengqi, in fact, we can change our minds, what do you think?"