Neutron Battlestar, Optics Laboratory.

At this time, Zhong Zixing was discussing several major classifications of lithography machine components with the elites of the two major departments of the microscopic integration department and the extreme precision department.

At present, the company can be called the world's best in software, and the semiconductor design has gradually kept up with the world's forefront, and there are almost no rivals in the field of electronic chemistry, and the preconditions are completed, so the two major departments intend to enter the field of lithography machines.

Of course, it is not realistic to directly develop the lithography machine as a whole, and if you want to enter the field, you must start with some more important components.

As we all know, the lithography machine, the most sophisticated instrument in human history, is composed of a large number of parts, such as lasers, beam correctors, energy controllers, beam shape setters, light shields, exposure stages, and so on.

The most important thing is undoubtedly the light!

In a fraction of a step, a beam of light-generating light waves is controlled within a certain range, and in a fraction of a second, countless images and transistors are carved into the wafer.

It's so difficult that it's daunting.

The world's strongest lithography machine is provided by ASML in the Netherlands, and ASML's own technology comes from many scientific and technological powers around the world.

One of the most important areas of optics comes from a German optical company called Carl Zeiss.

"It is not difficult to manufacture laser generators, orthoses and other instruments, the key is how to make the precision of these instruments meet the requirements, and this involves a key part - the lens!" Professor Xu Zhihai of the Extreme Precision Department looked at the young faces in the laboratory.

"It's not easy to make a good lens, but we've been prepared for it...... The sensors in the micro-integration section are ready. Zhong Zixing applauded Jiang Zhenwei and Wang Li of the sensor design team.

With the already formed architecture and EDA software, the difficulty of sensor design has plummeted.

Founded three years ago, Neutron Star Technology Group has finally begun to enter the most important step in the field of true infinite microscopy - optics.

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In the field of optics, Deutsche Carl Zeiss is the uncrowned king.

The company can be found in a wide range of industries, from optical systems to industrial measuring instruments and medical devices, to video cameras.

Spectacle lenses used by many people, imaging instruments in medical equipment, microscopes, telescopes, camera lenses, internal lenses for lithography machines, observation lenses on satellites...... Carl Zeiss is everywhere.

As long as the field of optics is won, not only the difficulty of lithography machine manufacturing will be reduced by half, but even other optical instruments will also enter the door.

"It's a bit difficult to start building lithography machine lenses directly, so you have to start from a slightly simpler field......" Zhong Zixing touched the stubble on his chin and wandered out of the world.

The two departments in the laboratory turned their heads to look at him.

"Mr. Zhong means ......"

"How about starting with the lens of the mobile phone camera and letting the department staff accumulate some experience?"

"Mobile phones, camera lenses? The difficulty is also not low. ”

"I have to find a breakthrough, I can see the mobile phone lens well!" The people in the lab began to talk.

"That's it, I'm okay with that." Professor Xu Zhihai, who has experience in manufacturing lithography machines, made a decision and nodded directly in agreement.

The difficulty is layered from low to high, and the most solid step by step, which is obviously the best development strategy, after all, the lens is the core technology, and the accumulation is particularly important.

Seeing that everyone agreed, Zhong Zixing began to let Andromeda simulate, showing some sorted out ideas on the screen.

"Optical lenses involve machine vision, and the quality of imaging is the best way to intuitively feel the advantages and disadvantages of the lens, as well as the effect of the algorithm......"

The three major lenses of short focus, medium focus and telephoto, as well as the three fields of view of wide angle, standard and telephoto, are the results of machine vision and algorithms.

The world's most powerful optical lens companies are undoubtedly Carl Zeiss and Leica in Germany. It is followed by Canon, Nikon, Sony, Panasonic, Fujifilm, etc., as well as the domestic Zhongyi.

As expected, Zhongyi is still taking the cost-effective route, occupying the market and not reaching the tail of the two major industrial powers, Germany and Foot Basin Chicken.

And what about the giants of Canon, Nikon, Sony, Panasonic, and Fujifilm? To put it mildly, it also eats the exhaust of the two giants, Carl Zeiss and Leica.

Leica is known as the aristocrat of the lens, the optical imaging system is indeed excellent, in recent years, the major brands of mobile phones are to Leica camera as a selling point, perhaps to taste the sweetness, their focus slowly from the traditional camera, microscope, astronomical telescope, lithography machine optics field shift.

Carl Zeiss, on the other hand, is a real optical overlord!

Many video camera enthusiasts are proud to own Carl Zeiss lenses, and even the footbasin chicken giant Sony uses Carl Zeiss lenses in some of its digital cameras to promote them.

Ultra-high-level imaging technology, ultra-high-quality lens resolution, color reproduction, and almost no distortion.

Samsung's Schmid lenses, Sony's Carl Zeiss lenses, Panasonic's Leica lenses, and Fujifilm's Canon lenses have been a phenomenon when they are competing for market dominance......

In the case of Nokia, which is currently losing the market, Nokia, which is equipped with a Carl Zeiss 3.2-million-pixel lens, takes a photo and transmits it to a computer, and the effect is surpassing that of many 8 million or even 10 million pixel mobile phones.

It's incredible.

"In terms of optical imaging and algorithms, Carl Zeiss has almost achieved the ultimate in current technology, which is a terrifying opponent...... Zhong Zixing is very solemn.

If you want to enter the field of optics, Carl Zeiss is an inevitable peak.

If you want to make a difference in the fields of lithography machines, astronomical telescopes, satellite observation, medicine, etc., climbing this peak is an inevitable reality.

"We are novice players in the field of optical imaging, we have to admit that, but in terms of machine algorithms, we are enough to crush all opponents in the world!"

"The task now is that the sensors of the microscopic integration department must keep up, and the manufacturing accuracy of the extreme precision department must also be qualified, and the imaging technology of the lens depends on your ......."

"Understood!"

"Understood!"

With the goal in mind, the members of the laboratory were immediately refreshed and full of energy, and they went back to their departments to start preparing.

Optical measurement and engraving circuits in the infinite microscopic field, infinite macroscopic starry sky observation, and super-resolution lenses are all vital eyes!

Once there is a breakthrough in the field of optics, neutron star technology will get the fulcrum of connecting the previous and the next, and the improvement of physical science and technology is no less than that of information technology has been 'Andromeda'.

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