Chapter 177 Carbon crystal storage, the technology tree is crooked (please order 3 more)
Chapter 177: Carbon crystal storage, the technology tree is crooked
(Again, I emphasize that this book is fantasy science fiction, not hard science fiction. 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 principles. If it can really be realized, I will become one.
Now that you are a scientist, why should you write books?)
Late at night, only some workers at Zhongjing Company were 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, and no one else, including Gao Miao and Wang Xiang, knew about it.
On the 3rd floor of the Carbon Crystal Laboratory, enter the password to enter the innermost secret room. After that is Chen Xiao's laboratory.
Chen Xiao had workers carry the equipment inside in batches and then installed it himself.
The production equipment of carbon crystal storage is divided into two large 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 does not meet Chen Xiao's requirements.
Therefore all silicon carbide must be produced in-house.
Moreover, the carbon molecules used in silicon carbide are not ordinary coal, but artificial diamonds.
Artificial diamonds have requirements for purity, and this part must be produced by ourselves.
Just these two pieces of equipment cost Chen Xiao close to 10 million.
Most of Chen Xiao's borrowings from Baidu were also used on this project.
The second equipment is the memory production equipment.
After carbon atoms are replaced by silicon atoms, there are some vacant barriers in the silicon carbide molecules formed, 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 time, it is necessary to use a very small laser to hit electrons into these gratings at fixed points.
This creates a NAND gate similar to a digital circuit.
At the same time, another laser beam can identify whether there are electrons in these barriers.
If expressed in logical language.
The presence of electrons represents 1, and the absence of electrons represents 0.
The origin principle is almost the same as that of future solid-state disks, but the platforms expressed are inconsistent.
Moreover, 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 at an extremely fast speed.
Electrons cannot actively escape from the barrier (color center). A laser with a fixed frequency must be used to make the electrons disappear from the barrier.
In this way, carbon crystal storage can store data stably.
Moreover, it is faster and more stable than traditional flash memory or mechanical disks.
In addition, there are countless barriers (color centers) in a single carbon crystal molecule, and the number of color centers stored in one gram of carbon crystal is countless.
From the system instructions, we know that as long as the technology can be realized, the storage capacity is theoretically unlimited for humans.
Because the color center captures spin electrons, quantum entanglement can create infinite possibilities in the field of quantum theory.
However, it is still very difficult for Chen Xiao to achieve this theoretically infinite storage.
Chen Xiao does not need to use spin electrons now. He only needs to use whether there are electrons in the color center to express logic gates that can store data.
Chen Xiao already had a gram of processed carbon crystals in his hand. He carefully placed the carbon crystals in the center of the device.
Then he turned on the equipment and used laser to "engrav" (activate) the color center of the carbon crystal.
The device is connected to the laptop, and Chen Xiao's purpose is to convert a photo into data and store it in it.
Almost instantly, the storage is completed.
Chen Xiao took out the carbon crystal and put it into the matching reader.
Reading it has a weak laser emitter and control chip, 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. Chen Xiao just carved a total of 8 sets of color centers, so you said the storage should only be 256MB.
Open my computer, drive F.
What is shown above is indeed 256M.
"X!"
It should be a success!
Chen Xiao couldn't help but cursed.
He quickly opened the F drive, and there was indeed a photo inside.
This photo is the one Chen Xiao just saved.
Chen Xiao began to test carbon crystal storage.
He dragged MP3 songs, electronic documents, and more than 100 megabytes of videos from his computer into carbon crystal storage.
Its transmission speed is extremely fast!
Using an ordinary USB flash drive to transfer a video of more than 100 MB may take more than a minute. If the performance of the chip and motherboard is limited, it may take several minutes.
However, carbon crystal transmission is almost instantaneous, which means that its 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 drank it in two gulps.
Although the weather was very cold, Chen Xiao was already sweating profusely.
The experiment was successful!
This success means that Chen Xiao has opened a new era of technology.
In the future, the world's electronic information industry may change starting with carbon crystal storage.
The performance of traditional semiconductor technology is far different from that of carbon crystal materials.
Chen Xiao is thinking about whether to start with carbon crystal storage and explore new electronic information technologies that he has never experienced before.
Chen Xiao's mind was very confused and he was determined to put this matter aside.
There are three things he has to do at the moment.
The first one is to write detailed papers related to carbon crystal storage. Excellent papers are the basis for technology realization.
The second thing is to find a way to mass-produce carbon crystal storage to replace traditional flash memory with hard drives.
In this way, Changtian Technology's products will not be controlled by others.
The third is to deeply explore carbon crystal storage technology.
Currently, what Chen Xiao is trying is 8 groups of color centers, which can reach 256 MB of storage.
So are there more groups of color centers?
Can its stored value reach a relative upper limit?
If Chen Xiao can develop 512MB or even 1G storage in this era.
Then Changtian Technology can really have a foothold in the electronic information field 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 target of consumers by Western technology companies.
In this era, can Chen Xiao pick up the sickle and become a leek for Western consumers?