Rebirth in America

Sawyer looked at Alex, but what he was thinking about was another person, a great dead scientist. He admired Tesla's achievements very much. In his opinion, Tesla's IQ is obviously higher than ordinary people.

Nikola Tesla single-handedly established the foundation of modern electricity. What he did can simply become a prophet of the electrical age! He obtained about 1,000 patented inventions in his lifetime. Without him, various electronic instruments in modern society would not have been invented, let alone affect human life, or would have been delayed for at least many years.

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

However, one distinctive feature of his inventions is that the drawings are clean and without any modifications. Someone once asked him how he did it. He replied that all inventions were brewed over and over in his mind until every detail was clear, so to No modifications are required at the drawing stage.

At this point, Alex is strikingly similar to Tesla. That is, they can all simulate objects in the real world in their minds, and after doing experimental verification in their minds, they can take them out and use them directly. Alex has also tried various experiments in the mental space and found that the results were the same as in reality.

No matter how Alex disguises himself, what he occasionally reveals is enough to scare anyone who cares. Sawyer is such a thoughtful person. His goal is to improve the overall quality of human beings by studying IQ tests.

Alex, who knew nothing about it, was writing quickly and finished it quickly. He handed the pieces of paper to Sawyer and said, "Give this to Shockley! He will understand after reading it."

Sawyer couldn't help but ask, "How do you come up with these things?"

Alex smiled, tapped his forehead with his finger and said: "It just flows out naturally from here. Asking me to explain to you how it came about is like asking you to explain to a person who was born blind." What the color looks like. No matter how you explain it, you can’t explain it.”

Sawyer nodded in understanding, but before he gave it to Shockley, he called Shockley and briefly explained what Alex had written.

"Bring these things to me right away!" Shockley's voice became deeper, and he could tell that what Alex wrote was very important.

Sawyer had someone rush the paper to Bell Labs. As soon as Shockley got the piece of paper, he was dumbfounded by the content on it. Especially the principle and structure of bipolar transistors, which is a topic he has been studying. We have reached a critical moment recently, but we have never found a breakthrough.

Shockley was convinced that his research had not been leaked, and the information he sent to Sawyer did not involve this aspect. It's just old information about transistors. These things have been patented for a long time and are not a secret.

What I never expected was that an eight-year-old child didn't know where to get the knowledge about transistors. After seeing those things, I immediately designed so many types of bipolar transistors, and also gave specific parameter data.

"Has someone else already researched the results?" Shockley would rather believe that he was overtaken by others than believe that this was the brainchild of some genius child.

Shockley's mind ached when he thought about it, and finally, he decided to put the matter aside for now. He immediately entered the laboratory and started making new bipolar transistors according to the instructions on the drawings. He wants to verify to see if the designs are really as described and whether the symbols meet the parameter requirements.

According to the above structural description, he first made a PNP tube. The key is to have three zones, two combined with three leads. These three areas are the collector area, the base area and the emission area. The two junctions are the collector junction and the emitter junction. The three leads are collector, base and emitter.

The structure is very simple, but if you don't master the production know-how, you may not be able to realize 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 had sufficient materials and complete tools. More importantly, he had been doing this kind of work and quickly made a new transistor. He picked up the tool and tested it to see if it worked properly. He connected the P area to the positive side and the N area to the negative side, applied a forward voltage to the emitter junction of the transistor, and then tested 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 reverse it, connect the N area to the positive side, and connect the P area to the negative side, and test it again.

Everything is normal and consistent with the parameters written on the drawings. Shockley suddenly felt weak and almost paralyzed in his seat. He really couldn't figure it out. He had been researching for two or three years but couldn't find a breakthrough, but a child broke it within a few hours.

Shockley didn't believe in evil, so he tested it again, and the data was still the same as what was measured just now. He looked at the remaining bipolar transistors and chose an NPN transistor with a simple structure.

This type of transistor can also work normally. The parameters are slightly different from what is written on the paper, but Shockley knows that this is due to the purity of the material. When industrial mass production occurs, this problem will no longer exist.

"Kid!" Shockley suddenly jumped up from his seat and said to himself, "What's that kid's name?"

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

Shockley knew that someone had said that Leonardo da Vinci's IQ was 220. At that time, he still didn't believe it, thinking that future generations were whitewashing their predecessors. He believed that all great people achieved results through sweat and hard work. It’s just that the reality is cruel, some people are indeed different, and it is much easier for them to succeed than ordinary people.

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

"Hello? Who is it?" Sawyer struggled to get up to answer the phone, cursing in his mind: "That bastard called at 3 o'clock in the morning!"

Shockley's voice rang on the phone, and he said eagerly: "I'm Shockley! You said last time that the child scored very high in the IQ test. What is his name? Where does he live?"

Sawyer woke up immediately and said alertly: "I can't tell you the child's name. His parents asked us not to tell anyone else. 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 something! I'm afraid it will cause a big disturbance if these are leaked from any research institute."

"Are you kidding?" Sawyer said seriously, knowing the seriousness of the matter.

"Yes, I have verified the above content. 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 little more complicated and it will take some time. ." Shockley said without any concealment.

"That's impossible!" Sawyer recalled the scene when Alex wrote these things. He knew that it was impossible for these things to come from any institute. They only come from one place, Alex's head.

Shockley was stunned and asked, "Are you sure?"

Sawyer said: "I personally handed the information to the child and watched him think and write down the contents. I didn't do anything else during this period. If these things weren't already in his mind, then Who could have given it to him?"

Shockley was rendered speechless by Sawyer. He paused and said, "Get ready, I'll go find you right away."

He packed away the things on the desk, especially the important pieces of paper and the newly made bipolar transistor. After making sure nothing suspicious was left behind, he left the laboratory.

When Shockley arrived in Chicago by plane, it was already past 9 a.m. He came directly to the University of Chicago and found his old friend Sawyer. The two of them were classmates and best friends before, but one chose physics and the other chose mathematics.

Shockley's first words when he saw his old friend Sawyer were: "Where is that kid? I want to see him!"

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

Shockley said indifferently: "I also promise you that I will not tell anyone else about this child."

Sawyer asked, "Can you keep a secret?"

"Of course!" Shockley said impatiently.

Sawyer spread his hands and said, "I can do it too!"

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

Sawyer sighed: "Okay, I'll ask the kid first. If he is willing to come to see you, then it won't be considered a leak from me to you."

Shockley happily urged: "Hurry up, hurry up! I really have something urgent to find him."

Sawyer called Carpenter's house, and Richard answered the phone. He asked Richard to hand it over to Alex. When Alex received the call, he listened to Sawyer's story and thought about it.

"It's best for me to talk to my parents about this 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, and now people from Bell Labs came to Chicago and planned to meet him.