Chapter 276: The Twelve Ministry of Machinery and the National Academy of Sciences
From 4 nines to 9 nines, it seems that the number is just increased by one, but in fact the impurity concentration is 5 times different, an order of magnitude.

Even this is not even a question of technological maturity.

His reaction was exactly the same as that of the 17th Ministry of Machine Building. Otherwise, why do the two of them call each other "old guy"? It's the same.

"Go, invite the chief engineer of the department over. Oh, and notify the director and chief engineer of Factory 1274 to come to the department immediately!"

Then he handed the received materials to the secretary and said, "Tell the office to make four copies of this immediately. We will need them later. Keep the original on file."

Fortunately, these people were all in the capital and arrived at the department quickly, and the time they took was exactly the same as the time it took to copy the materials.

After everyone arrived, the secretary invited the director and chief engineer of Factory 1274 to the office of the leader of the th Ministry of Machine Building, where the chief engineer was already there.

At this time, the people in the office also brought the copied materials over and handed them to the leader.

The leader took the materials and threw a portion to each of the three people, speaking with a sense of mystery and euphoria, like a child sharing candy: "Take a look, good stuff."

The chief engineer of the 12th Ministry of Machinery flipped through the documents and said with a smile, "Leader, you were so secretive just now and refused to tell me what it was. I want to take a closer look to see what could make you so happy."

The other two people also smiled and opened the materials in their hands.

After seeing this, the three of them couldn't laugh anymore.

It wasn't because I saw something I didn't want to happen, but because I couldn't believe the materials in my hands.

Brain: This is true. The 17th Ministry of Machine Building cannot possibly joke about this.

Mouth: I don’t believe it!
The chief engineer of the 12th Ministry of Machinery spoke first: "Leader, is this true?"

The leader laughed and said, "The Third Steel Rolling Mill can't possibly joke about this. This is an official document. As for Comrade Gao Zhendong, you all know that he always keeps his word and never makes empty promises."

The second half of the sentence was directed to the people at Factory 1274.

Not to mention Factory 1274, even the chief engineer of the 59th Ministry of Machine Building had long heard of Gao Zhendong's great name. If nothing else, just the DJS- was enough.

The 59th Ministry of Machine Building had a hard time feeling about Gao Zhendong. DJS-, C language, modem, each of these were major achievements within the th Ministry of Machine Building, but he himself was not a member of the th Ministry of Machine Building.

This makes the 12th Ministry of Machine Building feel a little subtle and lacking in confidence whenever they talk about information technology as part of their professional scope.

Now, seeing that he had produced a material that was urgently needed by the Ministry of Machine Building, the thought of “what are the people in charge of allocations at the university for?” suddenly came to my mind again.

Fortunately, this time they were dealing with materials, which was the main business of the 17th Ministry of Machine Building, which made them feel a little better.

The director and chief engineer of Factory 1274 forgot everything when they saw the words "silicon single crystal".

The transistor production line they upgraded has reached a bottleneck in terms of capacity expansion and can no longer be increased. This has nothing to do with laziness in their factory or the number of equipment, but rather a lack of raw materials.

We were looking at the transformation of the production line at that time, and we boasted that we would even merge the silicon workshop of Factory 1218, but this is the result?

But the source of raw materials is so difficult. If there is, there is. If there is not, there is not. This cannot be solved by mobilizing the masses or tightening the belt. The masses can give you sand, but they cannot give you silicon single crystals.

Even what they need is not as good as 5 nines, but even this lowered requirement cannot be met.

Not to mention the integrated circuits that have already been pre-researched. With the current silicon raw materials, there is no hope. The harmful impurities are higher than the doping concentration, and there is no accurate spectrum for the distribution and composition. What's the point of doing that?

At the meeting at the beginning of the year, they also heard from Gao Zhendong that they were researching the direct pulling of high-purity silicon single crystals. However, everyone knows that materials are not so easy to produce, especially when it comes to this kind of pursuit of excellence and further improvement based on existing achievements.

Because the existing achievements actually represent an extreme, which is the limit of the existing conditions. If we want to go further, it will be very difficult without coming up with something new.

But it’s not that easy to do new things.

This is different from Gao Zhendong's development of DJS-59 using existing triodes under existing technical conditions. This is something new.

Then, within a few months, Director Gao reported that the silicon single crystal had been pulled. The chief engineer of Factory 1274 had not yet finished reading the whole process, but only looked at the silicon single crystal part. In his mind, he had only one question: "Where is that silicon single crystal? We want it."

This silicon single crystal cannot solve their current raw material shortage problem, but it is the hope to completely solve this problem. It has only one purpose: I want to test it!
The leader of the 12th Ministry of Machinery could guess his thoughts and said with a smile: "Don't worry, the things have been delivered and can't run away. Take a look at the back, maybe there is something you want to see more."

Several people turned the page in confusion. Isn't that enough? Is there any more good news?

Then, they actually saw good news.

This silicon single crystal is mass-produced using standard equipment and mature technology!
Even the third steel rolling mill produced three rods at one time and sent them to different places. The purity of the three rods reached more than 5 nines!

Now it doesn't matter whether it is inspected or not. This at least proves one thing: this matter is true. If the Third Steel Rolling Mill has the guts to make fun of the Twelfth Ministry of Machinery, then these three departments together will completely eliminate this possibility.

Their thinking now becomes: I want this stove!
It was only ten years after the founding of the People's Republic of China, and the division of the Ministry of Machinery at that time was not necessarily completely scientific. For example, this time, although materials were the territory of the 17th Ministry of Machinery, the use of silicon single crystals was undoubtedly the purview of the 12th Ministry of Machinery.

But they no longer care about this, this stove is a good thing, universal!

"Leader, can you communicate with the 17th Ministry of Machinery as soon as possible to put the production of this universal single crystal furnace on the agenda? We need it so badly now. I don't want their furnace technology, but at least they can provide us with enough furnaces."

The chief engineer of the 1274th Ministry of Machinery also said, "Yes, this is very necessary. I looked at the materials of the furnace. This furnace can even directly perform the required doping during the process of pulling silicon single crystals and directly produce integrated circuit substrates. This is very necessary for factories like ."

He could even imagine a series of products that this thing could produce, including integrated circuits, sensors, power electronic components, and traditional electronic components.
The 12th Machinery Department said with a smile, "Don't worry, since the 17th Machinery Department and the 3rd Steel Rolling Mill sent this thing to us first, it means that they know how important this technology is to us. They will definitely cooperate in this regard. Now you should take the samples and test them according to your needs to see if they meet your requirements."

The chief engineer smiled and said, "What the leader said makes sense. Since they have mature single crystal furnace technology, they can make certain process improvements based on our needs. Now we have to start from ourselves and accurately grasp the demand for silicon single crystal finished products. We can't let others create all the conditions while we ourselves cannot put forward any demand."

The leader turned around and said to the director of Factory 1274: "You have more to do."

The director of Factory 1274 looked bewildered: "What else could be more important than this?"

The leader nodded at him and said, "You, you can't even seize the opportunity given to you. Have you forgotten? What did Director Gao say at the last meeting?"

The director and chief engineer of Factory 1274 looked at each other and suddenly realized, "Ah, yes, yes, yes, the leader has a good memory. Director Gao said that the single crystal furnace is finished and he will lead us to develop integrated circuit technology!"

When the chief engineer of the 12th Ministry of Machinery heard this, he was stunned: "Did he say this? Does he also understand the integrated circuit production process?"

The director of Factory 1274 shook his head and said, "I don't know, but looking at this thing, I tend to believe what he said."

The leader of the 12th Ministry of Machinery said with a smile: "Comrade Zhendong never makes empty promises. He is trustworthy in this regard. My suggestion is that you should also make relevant preparations for integrated circuit technology as soon as possible. First collect information, determine the needs, and make preliminary plans. You can't let others do temporary research on these things. That would really bring shame to our department."

While discussing, several people went to see the single crystal silicon rods delivered by the Third Steel Rolling Mill, which was the source of everything.

But it is different from the 17th and 12th Ministries of Machine Building.

The 17th and 12th Ministries of Machine Building had a lot of things to consider, but the Chinese Academy of Sciences had very simple things to do.

They just need to verify whether this thing is consistent with the report sent over.

When they received the silicon single crystal samples and reports, the people at the Chinese Academy of Sciences were at a loss.

When was this major project or scientific research plan launched? Even if there were related projects, they had nothing to do with the Third Steel Rolling Mill of the Seventeenth Ministry of Machinery.

However, the people from the Chinese Academy of Sciences are not oblivious to what is happening outside. Even if they are, they remember very clearly that the laser, the real "world first" that they personally verified not long ago, was born in this factory.

So although most of the ordinary first-line production factories are not well known, this factory is well-known.

With laser, which is now considered a super achievement, as a guarantee, the Chinese Academy of Sciences also paid enough attention to the things sent by the Third Rolling Mill.

This is not easy. In the absence of corresponding scientific research projects, if they have to verify all the self-developed projects sent by any factory one by one, they will not be able to do anything else.

Just like a mathematics research institute will not pay attention to the amateur scientists who wait at the gate to deliver their papers on the "Goldbach Conjecture"; a physics research institute will not verify the countless inventors of "perpetual motion machines" because it does not have the resources to waste.

(End of this chapter)