The fate of Chinese scientists in the United States?

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Remember Chen Gang?

It is the well -known Chinese professor at the Department of Machinery Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. After experiencing the "spy survey" of the US Department of Justice for more than a year, he was revoked all allegations in January this year.

Half a year later, Chen Gang became the focus of the media again. However, this time, he is one of the discoverers of "the best semiconductor material so far."

Chen Gang's joint team, as the "hero", published a article in the American "Science" magazine, published research on cubic boronbone. Although it is still in the laboratory stage, this material has been called the "game rules change" by the industry and "the best material that may be found."

It is the "significant change" of the fate of Chen Gang as the top scientist in the field as the breakthrough discovery of this semiconductor field.

In the context of the scarcity of talents in the development and manufacturing field of American chips, will Chen Gang, that is, the situation of more Chinese scientists in the United States will become good?

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In late July, the official website of MIT published an article that introduced a research team composed of scientific researchers from MIT, Houston University, and many other institutions. They have proven through experiments that a material called cubic arsenic boron has a better effect than the current main semiconductor material of the industry -silicon.

What is this cubic arsenic boron, and what mechanism does its excellent performance come from?

These issues are a bit professional, and it is not the focus we said today, but it can be seen from the industry evaluation:

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology said that this thermal guide effect is almost 10 times the material of silicon "may be a change of the rules of the game." Researchers say that it is not only the best semiconductor material found to date, but also may be the "best material that may be found" in the field.

Related research results have been published in the "Science" magazine in the United States. Chen Gang's team also popularized the huge prospects of cubic arsenic boronthrody to the outside world. It is the easiest sentence, which is "this discovery may find a way out for smaller and faster chips."

The reason why it is said to be "possibly" is that this discovery is still in the laboratory's small -scale test stage. Whether it can actually use or even replace some semiconductor materials on the current market, it needs a large number of subsequent research and practice proof.

The press release says that silicon is still the main force of the entire industry. It is a continuous development of scientists for decades to be purified to the level of chip manufacturing, that is, 9999999999%of the so -called "10 9" purity.

It is also a question whether related research can obtain continuous sufficient financial support.

This study has attracted so wide attention. In addition to the breakthrough scientific research of cubic gallium boronthriance, of course, it is also due to Chen Gang's encounter because of one of the research heroes.

The title of a report on the 16th of the US Wealth Magazine directly placed the focus on the Chinese professor, saying that after he was suspected of being eluted, he "helped find that it might be the best semiconductor material so far."

The author even used a larger space for cubes of boronbone to review Chen Gang's experience in investigation, and said that this research was a major change in Professor Chen Gang. There are also media that this marks Chen Gang's return as a top scientist in the field.

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Although Professor Chen Gang's encounters are well known, wealth magazines still review the process in detail in the report.

In January of last year, Chen Gang was arrested and criminally charged. This is part of the "China Action Plan". This infamous plan began in 2018 and was "announced" in February this year. Its primary goal is to prioritize the so -called "theft of business secrets" and "economic espionage" cases, and prioritize the use of the core tools of the Ministry of Justice -criminal investigation and prosecution.

Of course, many prosecutions, such as Chen Gang's case, do not involve "theft information", but a smaller problem: there is no disclosure of the relationship with Chinese institutions when applying for appropriation from the United States institutions.

The allegations of Chen Gang's unconvinced charges have aroused collective criticism in the American academic circle.

For 10 days after Chen Gang's arrest, President MIT and more than 160 faculty employees signed an open letter to support Chen Gang.

President MIT stated that the "19 million US dollars from China" cited in criminal proceedings was not Chen Gang's personal income, but part of MIT and Southern China University of Science and Technology.

In February, more than a hundred faculty members of Stanford believed in President Stanford and the chief of the teaching affairs. He expressed his criminal lawsuit to Chen Gang's criminal lawsuits as "improper behavior" that accused the academic circles of academic circles, which posed a serious threat to academic freedom. The dean issued a public statement to reiterate the support of Stanford University for international cooperation.

After that, nearly 200 faculty members of Yale University further pointed at the "China Action Plan" and believed that the "China Action Plan" had a large proportion of allegations completely due to the family background of the parties.

A strong proof is that in December 2021, the MIT Science and Technology Review released 77 cases including the "China Action Plan" and more than 150 defendants, of which 88%of the Chinese or Chinese scholars accused.

Matthew Olson, assistant minister of the Ministry of Justice, who is responsible for reviewing the "China Action Plan", believes that the plan "has promoted prejudice and hatred against Asians, erodes judicial credibility, and may even damage national security." In January of this year, the US government withdrew the allegations of lying on Chen Gang when he applied for funding. In February, the "China Action Plan" was also "terminated".

However, in April, Tao Feng, a scholar at the University of Kansas, was sentenced to three telecommunications fraud and a false statement. Such a repeat judgment can be seen that the "hunting action" of the United States for Chinese scientists has not been relaxed.

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In addition to cubic boron boron and Chen Gang, wealth magazine reporters also cited experts, which briefly outline the status quo of the US chip industry.

It is reported that the leading advantage of the United States in R & D in R & D, including the main constraints of the regtening semiconductor manufacturing in China, is that skilled science and technical personnel are insufficient. According to some studies, in order to replace Asia to become a chip manufacturing center, it is necessary to increase the labor force of chip manufacturing by 50%.

But where do these people come from? As far as the current situation is concerned, these talents that the United States needs urgently needs to come from overseas, "including China."

A communication issue expert believes that although the data of 50%of the talents and labor gaps cited by the US media cannot be confirmed for the time being, from the current situation, the United States does face serious constraints in the chip manufacturing field. Intel's current chip process in the United States is mainly 10 nanometer and 7 nanometer. You know, US chip design technology occupies more than half of the global market, but it can only produce 12%in China. This is why the United States is desperately trying to use Korean companies such as Samsung and TSMC to build factories in the United States.

In the case of chip manufacturing and even the persistence of the design field, which group of people can the United States depend on its domestic people?

Roughly speaking, the domestic scientific research field is generally in the situation of talent shortage.

Now that the United States has launched industrial support policies for chips and scientific research, for the purpose of competition in China and even stressing China. So in addition to money, you have to consider talents. In this context, Chinese scientists like Chen Gang may improve in the next situation and will not be found by nothing.

However, Hao Min, the director of the Intellectual Property and Science and Technology Security Research Center of the School of International Relations, has another view of this.

Hao Min, who has been tracking the "China Action Plan" for a long time, told Fu Yidao that Chen Gang's criminal charges were revoked early this year, not because of the vision of the US Department of Justice. At that time Because: First, the evidence is really insufficient. Massachusetts University of Science and Technology and Southern University of Science and Technology have cooperated. Chen Gang only represented MIT and was not personal behavior. Second, the case was more sensational at the time. Problems for tax declaration.

Hao Min said that although the "China Action Plan" has been canceled on the surface, there is still a large stock for researchers' "China Action Plan" related cases. Administrative case.

Therefore, Hao Min believes that the US media's reporting breakthrough in the chip material for the US media does not mean that the United States will look at the talents in the cutting -edge of Chinese descent. On the contrary, judging from the "Chip and Science Act", which has just signed the law, the United States will grasp the security, export control, information monitoring and foreign funding of scientific research in China.

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