Chapter 151: Magical Deionized Water

The seven of them chatted one by one, and finally Cang Yaozu found Jack Yuan, he mainly wanted to explain some things to Jack Yuan, and Cang Yaozu hoped that Jack Yuan would contact Professor Hu Zhengming at the University of California, Berkeley.

Hu Zhengming is known as the "father of FinFET" in the semiconductor industry, Cang Yaozu found him, it is to entrust him to study FinFET technology, the goal is to solve the problem of miniaturization of semiconductor devices after 25 nanometers, the patent of this technology Cang Yaozu must be held in his hand, the details of FinFET technology Cang Yaozu will sort out a document and hand it to Professor Hu Zhengming, presumably the research and development of this technology will not drag on for so long, and it should be able to be done this year.

Cang Yaozu also wanted to use this R&D project as an excuse to let Professor Hu Zhengming go to Yandu for a period of time, and Cang Yaozu hoped to invite Mr. Hu Zhengming to Qingwei Semiconductor as the technical leader.

Professor Hu Zhengming was an honorary professor of Qingdao University a few years ago, and Cang Yaozu hopes that this time the cooperation will be consolidated and deepened, rather than superficial. You must know that digging up Professor Hu Zhengming not only has a lot of technical benefits, but the person that Cang Yaozu wants to dig very much is Professor Hu's closed disciple Liang Mengsong.

Liang Mengsong is a native of Wanwan, with super R&D strength, known as Lu Bu in the semiconductor industry, the reason why he is called Lu Bu is naturally because he has rebelled many times, and TSMC, Samsung, and Huaxin International have all left his legend.

The current Liang Mengsong is not so eye-catching in TSMC, and he has not made any achievements, it is a good choice to dig him into Qingwei Semiconductor or Mountainside Technology, anyway, leaving it to TSMC or Samsung is a serious enemy, then it is very bad, Cang Yaozu doesn't want to increase the difficulty for himself. Favors, money, and shares are all on the rise, and you have to take him down at any cost.

In addition to Professor Hu Zhengming, the father of FinFET, there are two other people that Cang Yaozu wants to dig, one is Yin Zhiyao, the father of Huaxia etching machine, and the other is Lin Benjian.

Not to mention the etching machine, although it is not as important as the lithography machine, it is also an indispensable and important equipment in the semiconductor industry. Lithography machine, etching machine and thin film deposition equipment are the three core equipment in the chip manufacturing process, if the chip is compared to a flat engraving work, then the lithography machine is the brush for drafting, the etching machine is the engraving knife, and the deposited film is the material that constitutes the work.

The accuracy of lithography directly determines the size of component engraving, and the accuracy of etching and thin film deposition determines whether the size of lithography can be actually processed, so lithography, etching and thin film deposition equipment are the three most important types of main equipment in the chip processing process.

In that life, it was not until 2004 that Yin Zhiyao returned to China to create China Micro Semiconductor, in this life, Cang Yaozu hoped to promote this matter in advance, well, lack of people to dig people, lack of money to invest money, and smash out of an etching machine head enterprise.

And Lin Benjian, he is a big guarantee for TSMC to be strong in that life, and the immersion lithography technology taught by Cang Yaozu to Qingwei Semiconductor is the result of Lin Benjian's proposal and insistence on promoting.

In fact, immersion lithography technology was proposed in 1984 by the Japanese Takanashi in a U.S. patent, he defined the most basic structural feature of immersion lithography, that is, a layer of transparent liquid between the last objective and the photoresist.

The expiration date of the invention patent is only 20 years, but it is a pity that this patent was born "too early", and the real immersion lithography in the previous life will not appear until a few years later, and Takanashi has also passed by with a huge patent fee.

But in this life, Cang Yaozu has asked Ge Liqin's law firm to buy out this patent, although the patent limitation period is less than 8 years, but 8 years is enough.

The reason why immersion lithography is not valued today is that people cannot find a good immersion solution, such as cyclooctane. Key issues such as the filling of immersion liquid, the contamination of lenses, the stability of photoresists, and the damage of air bubbles are difficult to solve, so there is no in-depth research on immersion lithography.

Dry lithography is now the dominant technology, whether it's Nikon, Canon, or ASML. If a good immersion solution can be found, then, in the field of high-end lithography, immersion lithography is the perfect alternative technology for dry lithography, and the replacement of new and old technologies brings a complete monopoly of lithography machines.

After 2002, Lin Benjian proposed a scheme to use deionized water with a refractive index of 1.44 as the immersion solution, which perfectly solved other problems of immersion lithography, which completely changed the lithography industry and the entire semiconductor industry. This is a great improvement, and it can be said that it is this simple yet magical deionized water that beats Nikon lithography and Canon lithography machines.

What is deionized water, which is water that has been ionized removed. Because water is a universal solvent, there are many kinds of salts that can be dissolved in water in nature, and these salts have a certain degree of ionization in water, resulting in many kinds of anions and cations. Therefore, water dissolved in salts can conduct electricity, which is not conducive to lithography.

Of course, it is still electrically conductive, but the conductivity of deionized water is very weak, and it is a semiconductor between a conductor and an insulator.

Born in 1942, Lin Benjian was born in Chaoshan, grew up in Sai Kung, studied in Wanwan, worked for IBM for 22 years, retired early in 1992 at the age of 50, and now founded the leading company.

Cang Yaozu plans to meet Mr. Lin Benjian in person in the next two days and acquire his leading company, which will clear the obstacles and pave the way for inviting him to join Qingwei Semiconductor.

Cang Yaozu has no choice but to focus on the semiconductor talents in Wanwan, mainly because there is a fault in the cultivation of talents in this area in China, and there is indeed no one who can take charge alone, because there is really no such growth environment.

Basically, after getting a rough idea of what happened in the semiconductor field, Cang Yaozu relaxed. If you want to talk about honestly engaging in the Internet, it is easy and simple to make money quickly, what a good thing, but those who do not seek the world are not enough to seek a time, and those who do not seek the overall situation are not enough to seek a domain.

What is the end of the development of Internet enterprises? Does Amazon still sell books on the Internet in the end? From books to various categories, from paper books to e-books, to e-book reader hardware, data centers, cloud computing, streaming media, film and television, artificial intelligence, biomedicine...

After the rise of a giant company, will it be willing to be trapped in one domain? Impossible, horizontal expansion is an inevitable choice.

So what Cang Yaozu is doing more now is for the future, he doesn't want to be grabbed by the neck and rubbed on the ground like VIA, ZTE, and Huawei, it's too embarrassing.

In that case, let's start now. Semiconductors, film and television, the Internet, hardware, content and new media channels are linked, and the linkage is maximized, and Cang Yaozu also has a plan for pure electric cars, and he has already registered Tesla's domain name and trademark, but it has not been started yet.

You must know that by the 2020s, Huaxia will import more than 300 billion US dollars of chips and more than 300 billion US dollars of crude oil, which is a large foreign exchange expenditure.

Because of the Wassenaar Agreement, the development of the semiconductor industry in China is difficult, so Cang Yaozu wants to use Qingwei Semiconductor, immersion lithography technology and dual imaging technology to falsely claim technological breakthroughs, while disrupting the rhythm of Western lithography machine research and development, it is also hoped that ASML, Nikon, Canon and other lithography machine companies will invest more money to develop the next generation of lithography machines, and when their capital chain is tight, see if they will continue to ban the export of lithography machines to Huaxia enterprises.

After all, there are precedents to follow, once Huaxia R&D makes a breakthrough, Western mature technology products will smash the market of Huaxia R&D technology in large quantities, so that Huaxia's follow-up R&D will become a source of no water, and give up continuing R&D because of lack of funds.

Of course, relying only on these small tricks, it may be able to be deceived for a while, and it will still be exposed in the long run, but what Cang Yaozu wants is to be blinded for a while, as long as those companies are fooled, Huaxia's dilemma can be solved a lot. It will take almost 20 years from the commercial use of EUV extreme ultraviolet lithography machine, and if Huaxia increases its research and development efforts in this area, the research and development process can fully catch up, after all, Huaxia is still very strong in the laser light source.

The EUV lithography machine's extreme ultraviolet light source mainly uses a carbon dioxide laser to irradiate a tin and other targets to excite 13.5nm photons, which is used as the light source of the lithography machine, which has the optical quality of nearly perfect, high-speed and exactly the same pulse, and has the cleanliness, accuracy and repeatability required by the semiconductor industry.

The laser light source is easy to solve, but the difficult thing is that there are nearly 30,000 mechanical parts, with top-level lenses and light sources, and there is no ultimate mechanical accuracy, which is also in vain. In the lithography machine, there are two synchronously moving stages, one for the film and one for the film. The two need to be synchronized at all times, with an error of less than 2 nanometers.

No matter how difficult it is, as long as there is a certain foundation, and then the national R & D force is launched, there will always be more and more breakthroughs, a company will definitely not be able to do it, then everyone will do a good job together, isn't it just throwing money, of course, this money can't be smashed by Cang Yaozu, he still has to mix it in the United States.

Cang Yaozu can only come up with bad ideas, and then leave everything to Yang Sizheng and Ni Guangnan to do, let them ask the country for money and policies, explain the pros and cons and the future development situation, and ensure that the input must be output, even if there is no output, it can force Western countries to relax equipment exports in order to seize the lithography machine market in China, and invest billions of dollars, compared with the hundreds of billions of dollars spent every year in the future, it is cost-effective.

Cang Yaozu also pointed out the direction to Yang Sizheng and Qingwei Semiconductor, immersion lithography, dual imaging technology, mirror instead of lens technology, magnetic levitation drive technology, extreme ultraviolet light system of vacuum cavity, anyway, Cang Yaozu poured everything he knew to Lao Yang, what can be done, to be honest, he can't make too much effort, after all, he is not a major, and he can't change his major to engage in scientific research.

On the bright side, Cang Yaozu has nothing to do with Qingwei Semiconductor, he doesn't occupy any shares, and he doesn't have a position, so it's impossible to throw money, at least on the surface. The digging people are also being dug for Yang Sizheng, and the relationship must be cleared. This can be regarded as Cang Yaozu's precaution.

As for the research and development of electric vehicles, Tesla Cang Yaozu will not let go, he asked Ge Liqin to find Martin Eberhard early on, and he is now about to start NuvoMedia with Mark Tarpenning, which will release the Rocket eBook eBook next year, which can be said to be the world's first eBook.

Martin Eberhard and Mark Tarpenning would have founded Tesla together in 2003, and then after a few years of hard work, they were kicked out of the company by Elon Musk, who kicked the other four of Tesla's five founders out of the company.

Ge Liqin will bring these two people over tomorrow to meet with Cang Yaozu, these two people are now in Silicon Valley, they are looking for funds to invest in the establishment of new media companies, and some of the technology of Newton that Cang Yaozu acquired can also be sublicensed to them to speed up the process of e-book development.

In addition, when it comes to e-books, we have to mention e-ink technology, Eink, which has mastered this technology, has not yet been created, and it should still be engaged in research and development at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

There are so many things in all aspects, it seems that Cang Yaozu is also going to set up a team of secretaries, let Sister Li help recruit people, it is best to be eye-catching, there are many girls around, and men are refused, you must know that fortresses are often breached from the inside.

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