Chapter 177 Carbon crystal storage, the technology tree is crooked

(Again, this book is a fantasy sci-fi, not a hard sci-fi. The technological products in the book have a certain theoretical basis, but they may not be realized in practice. Please don’t delve into the principle. If it can be realized, I will be Scientists, what books are you writing?)

In the middle of the night, only some workers of Zhongjing Company are still busy here.

Chen Xiao hired the most senior security personnel here to ensure the safety of the equipment.

Only Chen Xiao knew about the carbon crystal storage project from beginning to end, including Gao Miao and Wang Xiang.

On the 3rd floor of the Carbon Crystal Laboratory, enter the password to enter the innermost secret room, followed by Chen Xiao's laboratory.

The equipment inside is divided into batches by Chen Xiao, and the workers are brought in and installed by himself.

The production equipment of carbon crystal storage is divided into two parts.

The first block is to replace carbon atoms with silicon atoms under high temperature and high pressure conditions to form silicon carbide molecules.

This step is not difficult, and there are many companies on the market that can produce silicon carbide.

At this time, the silicon carbide produced by outside companies did not meet the requirements of Chen Xiao.

So all silicon carbide has to be produced in-house.

And the carbon molecules used in silicon carbide are not ordinary coal, but artificial diamonds.

Artificial diamonds have requirements for purity, and this part must also be produced by yourself.

Just these two devices cost Chen Xiao close to 10 million.

Most of Chen Xiao's loans from Baidu were also used for this project.

The second equipment is the memory production equipment.

After replacing carbon atoms with silicon atoms, there are some vacant grids in the formed silicon carbide molecules, also called color centers (color centers refer to point defects, point defect pairs or point defect groups in transparent crystals, these defects can Capture electrons or holes, absorb photons to make the crystal appear different colors), the diamond color center can efficiently capture spin electrons

At this point, it is necessary to use a small laser to hit the electrons in these barriers.

This creates a NAND gate similar to a digital circuit.

At the same time, another laser can identify whether there are electrons in these grids.

If expressed in logical language.

The presence of electrons means 1, and the absence of electrons means 0.

The origin principle is almost the same as the future solid-state disk, that is, the platform expressed is inconsistent.

And the biggest advantage of carbon crystal storage is that it can store information even after the power is turned off, and the weak laser generates electrons, which are extremely fast.

Electrons cannot actively escape in the grid (color center), and a fixed frequency laser must be used to make electrons disappear from the grid.

In this way, carbon crystal storage can store data stably.

And it is faster and more stable than traditional flash memory or mechanical disks.

In addition, there are countless grids (color centers) in a single carbon crystal molecule, and the number of color centers in one gram of carbon crystal storage is countless.

It is known from the description of the system that, as long as the technology can be realized, the storage capacity is theoretically infinite for human beings.

Because color centers capture spin electrons, quantum entanglement can create infinite possibilities in the realm of quantum theory.

However, it is still very difficult for Chen Xiao to realize this theoretical infinite storage.

Chen Xiao doesn't need to use spintronics now. He only needs to use whether there are electrons in the color center to express logic gates and be able to store data.

Chen Xiao already had a gram of processed carbon crystal in his hand, and he carefully placed the carbon crystal in the center of the device.

He then turned on the device and used a laser to "engrave" (activate) the color centers of the carbon crystals.

The device is connected to a laptop, and Chen Xiao's purpose is to store a photo as data.

Almost instantly, the storage is complete.

Chen Xiao took out this piece of carbon crystal and put it into the matching reader.

It has a weak laser transmitter and a control chip for reading, which can control the storage and reading of data.

At the same time, the corresponding driver must be installed on the computer, so that the computer can read the data of the carbon crystal memory.

Chen Xiao took a deep breath, he didn't know whether the experiment would be successful.

Soon the computer recognized the storage device. Just now, Chen Xiao carved a total of 8 sets of color centers, so you said that the storage should only be 256MB.

Open my computer, F drive.

As shown above, it really is 256M.

"X!"

It should be a success!

Chen Xiao couldn't help but scolded a swear word.

He quickly opened the F drive, and it turned out to be a photo.

This photo is the one that Chen Xiao saved just now.

Chen Xiao began to test carbon crystal storage.

He dragged MP3 songs, electronic documents, and more than 100 megabytes of video from the computer into the carbon crystal storage.

Its transfer speed is extremely fast!

It may take more than a minute to transfer more than 100 megabytes of video with an ordinary U disk, and it may take several minutes if the performance of the chip and motherboard is limited.

But the carbon crystal transmission is almost second, that is, his performance has reached the limit of computer hardware performance.

In other words, the transmission performance of carbon crystal storage is not limited by the carbon crystal transmission itself, but by other hardware of the computer.

After Chen Xiao completed the test, he sat on the sofa.

He opened a bottle of mineral water and gulped it in.

Although the weather was cold, Chen Xiao was already sweating profusely.

The experiment was a success!

This success means that Chen Xiao has opened a new era of technology.

In the future, the world's electronic information industry may change from carbon crystal storage.

The performance of traditional semiconductor technology is far from that of carbon crystal materials.

Chen Xiao is thinking about whether to start with carbon crystal storage and explore new electronic information technology that he has never experienced before.

Chen Xiao's thinking was in a mess, and he was determined to put this matter aside.

There are three things he has to do at the moment.

The first is to write detailed papers on carbon crystal storage. Excellent papers are the foundation of technology realization The second thing is to find a way to mass-produce carbon crystal storage to replace traditional flash memory to hard disk.

In this way, the products of Changtian Technology will not be controlled by others.

The third is the deep mining of carbon crystal storage technology.

At present, Chen Xiao is trying 8 sets of color centers, which can reach 256 megabytes of storage.

So is there more groups of color centers?

Can its stored value reach a relative upper limit?

If Chen Xiao can develop 512mb or even 1g of storage in this era.

So Changtian Technology can really have a foothold in the field of electronic information surrounded by powerful enemies, and can implement product monopoly.

Thinking of this, Chen Xiao licked his lips. Before his rebirth, he had always been a leek of a Western technology company that had customers.

In this era, can Chen Xiao pick up the sickle, the leeks of Western consumers?