Reborn in America

Chapter 25: Who is the Child

Sawyer looked at Alex, but he thought of another person, a great scientist who died. He admired Tesla's achievements very much. In his opinion, Tesla's IQ is obviously higher than that of ordinary people.

Nikola Tesla built the foundation of modern electricity with one hand, and what he did could become the prophet of the electrical age! He obtained about 1,000 patented inventions in his lifetime. Without him, various electronic devices in modern society would not have been invented, let alone affect human life, at least for many years.

For example, AC generators, AC transmission, hydropower stations, radios, automatic ignition, telephones, radios, televisions, fax machines, radars, wireless guided missiles, drones, x-ray cameras, neon lights, solar power generation, bladeless turbines, etc., These are closely related to Nikola Tesla.

However, one of the distinctive features of his invention is that the drawings are clean and there is no modification. Someone once asked him how to do it. He replied that all the inventions were repeatedly brewed in his mind until every detail was clear. No modification is required at the drawing stage.

At this point, Alex and Tesla are strikingly similar. That is, they can simulate real-world objects in their minds, and after experimental verification in their minds, they can be used directly. Alex has also tried various experiments in the spiritual space, and found that the results obtained are the same as in reality.

No matter how Alex disguises, what he occasionally reveals is enough to make the caring people look scared. Sawyer is just such a caring person. His goal is to improve the overall quality of mankind by studying IQ tests.

Alex, who didn't know anything about it, was writing quickly, and it was completed soon. He handed these pieces of paper to Sawyer and said, "Give it to Shockley! He will understand after reading it."

Sawyer could no longer help but ask: "How did you think of these things?"

Alex smiled. He nodded his forehead with his finger and said: "It just flows out of here naturally. You ask me to explain to you how it came about, as if you were to explain to a person who was born blind. What the color looks like. No matter how you explain it, you can’t make it clear.”

Sawyer nodded faintly, but before he gave it to Shockley, he gave Shockley a call and briefly talked about what Alex had written.

"You will bring these things to me right away!" Shockley's voice became deep, and he could hear what Alex wrote was very important.

Sawyer asked someone to quickly send the paper to Bell Labs. As soon as Shockley got the paper, he was dumbfounded by the content. Especially the principle and structure of bipolar transistors, this is a topic he has been studying. Recently it has reached a critical moment, but there has been no breakthrough.

Shockley is convinced that his research has not been leaked, and the information he sent Sawyer does not involve this aspect. It's just the old information about transistors, these things have already been applied for patents, it is no secret.

Unexpectedly, an eight-year-old child did not know where to get the knowledge of transistors. After reading those things, so many types of bipolar transistors were immediately designed, and specific parameter data was also given.

"Could it be that someone else has already worked out the results?" Shockley would rather believe that he was overtaken first, and he didn't dare to believe that this was the brain of a genius child.

Shockley was thinking about it, but in the end, he decided to put the matter aside. He immediately entered the laboratory and proceeded to make a new bipolar transistor according to the instructions of the drawing. He wants to verify, see if these designs are really as explained, and see if the symbols do not meet the parameter requirements.

According to the above structure description, he first made a pnp tube. The key is to have three zones, two combined with three leads. The three areas are the collector area, the base area and the launch area. The two junctions are the collector junction and the launch junction. The three leads are collector, base and emitter respectively.

The structure is very simple, but if you don’t master the production know-how, you may not be able to achieve it. For example, the doping concentration of the emitter region is much greater than that of the collector region, and the doping concentration of the collector region is greater than that of the base region. Also, the base area must be very thin, generally only a few microns.

The laboratory has sufficient materials and perfect tools. More importantly, he has been doing this kind of work, and soon he will make a new transistor. He picked up the tool and tested it to see if it worked. He connects the p area to positive and the n area to negative, adds a positive voltage to the emitter junction of the transistor, and then tests the voltages of several poles respectively.

"The collector voltage is normal and meets the set parameters."

"The base voltage is normal and meets the set parameters."

"The emitter voltage is normal and meets the set parameters."

Then reversely, connect the n area to positive and p area to negative, and test it again.

Everything is normal, all consistent with the parameters written on the drawing. Shockley felt all over and was almost paralyzed in his seat. He really couldn't figure it out. After two or three years of research, he didn't find a breakthrough, but he was broken by a child within a few hours.

Shockley did not believe in evil, so he tested it again, and the data was still the same as the one just tested. He looked at the remaining types of bipolar transistors, and chose a simple npn tube to make it.

This type of transistor can also work normally, and the parameters are somewhat different from what is written on the paper, but Shockley knows this is due to the purity of the material. When the industry is mass-produced, there will be no such problems.

"Child!" Shockley suddenly jumped up from his seat, and he said to himself: "What's the kid's name?"

Sawyer didn't mention Alex's name on the phone, only his age and gender. Other than that, Shockley knew nothing.

Shockley knows someone has said that Da Vinci’s IQ is 220. At that time, he still didn't believe it, thinking that this was a whitewashing of his predecessors. He believed that all great people rely on sweat and hard work to achieve results. It's just that the reality is cruel. Some people are really different. They are much easier to succeed than ordinary people.

"Sure enough, 1% inspiration is more important than 99% sweat? Edison, you are right again!" Shockley murmured, and he immediately called Sawyer.

"Hello? Who?" Sawyer struggled to answer the phone, cursing inwardly: "That bastard, actually called at 3 o'clock in the morning!"

Shockley's voice rang on the phone, and he eagerly said, "I'm Shockley! You said last time that the kid got a high score on the IQ test. What is his name? Where does he live?"

Sawyer immediately woke up and said vigilantly: "The child's name can't be told to you. His parents asked us not to tell other people. What's wrong, aren't you not interested in this kind of thing?"

Shockley ignored Sawyer's teasing and said with a wry smile: "The piece of paper you gave me is really amazing! I'm afraid it will cause a lot of trouble, if these are leaked from any research institute."

"Aren't you kidding me?" Sawyer knew the seriousness of the matter, and he said solemnly.

"Yes, the above content has been verified by me. I only verified two types of transistors, both of which meet the design requirements. I estimate that the remaining ones are also correct, but the structure is a bit more complicated and it takes a while. "Shockley said without concealment.

"That's impossible!" Sawyer recalled the scene where Alex wrote these things. He knew that these things couldn't come from any institute. They only came from one place, and that was Alex's brain.

Shockley was taken aback, he asked: "Are you sure?"

Sawyer said: "I personally handed the information to the child, watched him think, and then wrote the content. During this period, I didn't do anything else at all. If these things were not in his mind long ago, then Who would give it to him?"

Shockley was speechless by Sawyer. He paused and said, "You prepare, I'll go to you right away."

He packed up the things on the desktop, especially the important papers and the newly made bipolar transistors. After making sure that nothing suspicious was left, he left the laboratory.

When Shockley flew to Chicago, it was already past 9 o'clock in the morning. He went directly to the University of Chicago and found his old friend Sawyer. The two of them used to be classmates and buddies, but one chose physics and the other chose mathematics.

Shockley’s first sentence when he saw his old friend Sawyer was: "Where is that kid? I want to see him!"

Sawyer spread his hands and said, "I have promised the child's parents not to disclose his information at will."

Shockley said indifferently, "I promise you too, I won't talk about this kid with other people."

Sawyer asked: "Can you keep a secret?"

"Of course it can!" Shockley said impatiently.

Sawyer spread his hands together: "I can too!"

"We have been old friends for so many years, you still don't believe me!" Shockley said angrily.

Sawyer sighed: "Well, I'll ask the kid first. If he wants to come to see you, then I don't count as leaking to you."

Shockley urged happily: "Then hurry up, hurry up! I'm really looking for him in a hurry."

Sawyer called Carpenter's house. It was Richard who answered the phone. He asked Richard to give Alex to listen. When Alex received the call, he listened to Sawyer and thought about it.

"It's better for me to tell my parents about this matter first." Alex replied.

Sawyer had no choice but to say: "Okay! But please hurry up, my friend Shockley came here specially from Bell Labs."

Alex told Bart and Angel about this. In their surprised eyes, he said lightly that he had designed some transistors. Now the people from Bell Labs have come to Chicago and plan to meet him.