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Chapter 90 Who starts off with a royal flush?
Chapter 92 Who throws out a royal flush right from the start?
Wednesday, September 7.
DeepBlue Technology, Aurora Project Team.
In the laboratory, Chen Zhiyi was staring at the numbers on the screen, her fingers hovering above the keyboard, hesitant to touch them.
"One more time."
After 36 hours of continuous debugging, the seventh version of the device with a buffer layer was sent to the testing system.
This time, Wenbin did not stand in the testing room.
As time passed, the door opened.
Chen Zhiyi peeked out, her expression strange—a dazed, disbelieving, dreamlike look.
"How many?"
When Wenbin saw her come out, he quickly asked.
Chen Zhiyi replied, "The goal set by President Lin has been achieved."
Upon hearing this, Wenbin was greatly encouraged and immediately went inside to stand in front of a screen to review the data.
光电转换效率82.7%；量子产率500%；开路电压2.61伏；短路电流密度每平方厘米35.4毫安：填充因子84%——
All parameters have seen a qualitative leap compared to before.
"Awesome!"
The exhilarated Wenbin directly expressed his feelings with these two words.
Shortly after, he left the lab and went straight to Lin Chuan's office.
"Boss, the quantum yield is 500%, the photoelectric conversion efficiency is 82.7%, and the stability test lasted 1000 hours—all the data indicators have been achieved." Wenbin reported with excitement on his face.
Lin Chuan nodded in satisfaction and said, "The progress has been quite good; this can be considered a stage victory."
However, this is only the beginning.
How long can the data metrics be maintained? Can they be scaled up from one square centimeter to one square meter? Can they be moved from the laboratory to the production line?
These are all matters that need to be addressed in the next phase.
"Let's go to the lab."
Lin Chuan got up and left his office, and Wen Bin followed him. The two went to the Aurora Project team's laboratory.
A short while later, Wenbin called all the project team members into the conference room.
Lin Chuan looked around at the project team members present and said, "The project has achieved a major milestone, with the experimental level reaching a photoelectric conversion efficiency of 82.7%, which is an unprecedented breakthrough in the industry."
To turn a theoretically feasible but never proven technology into reality.
This greatly excited Chen Zhiyi, Peng Yuan, Wen Bin, and other members of the project team.
Lin Chuan said methodically, "The next step is to advance the second phase and carry out small-scale trial production. The key points are flexibility, scale-up of the process, and stability."
The prototype device in the laboratory is only 1 square centimeter. To reach the market, it must be made into a large-area flexible component.
After a moment, Lin Chuan continued, "In the next stage, we'll enlarge it from 1 square centimeter to 0.1 square meters, increasing the area by 1000."
"The photoelectric conversion efficiency cannot be lower than 75%, and the transition from a rigid substrate to a flexible substrate is also required. This is a significant challenge, but not impossible."
The project team members were also eager to try, and now no one questioned the technical direction and ideas that Lin Chuan had given them.
Chen Zhiyi looked at Lin Chuan with utmost admiration, deeply respecting his talent.
I heard that the "Plastic-Eating Bacteria" project team next door to the company was also his masterpiece, crossing over into the photovoltaic new energy field, two fields that are completely unrelated.
Surprisingly, as soon as they entered the photovoltaic industry, they broke through the ceiling of this field.
In the eyes of his technical employees, Lin Chuan is not the kind of boss who doesn't understand technology, but a true cross-disciplinary super genius.
After assigning the next phase of development tasks, Lin Chuan left the laboratory.
Back in the company's office area, he called Zhang Wei, Jiang Miaolan, and other management members to a meeting room to begin planning the technical patents for the "Aurora Project".
At this moment, Lin Chuan looked around at everyone and said with a confident smile, "In the photovoltaic new energy field, we have achieved a photoelectric conversion efficiency of 82%. In this field, DeepBlue Technology will be the strictest father to our peers and competitors."
Zhang Wei looked at Lin Chuan and immediately said, "You're amazing. You've successfully crossed over into another field again. I won't object to or question what you want to do in the future."
The others present smiled and nodded in agreement.
When they first ventured into the environmental protection field, the founding team members thought it would be a disaster, but then they came up with the plastic-eating bacteria.
They've ventured into photovoltaic new energy, and everyone thinks it's going to backfire.
As a result, they developed singlet fission solar energy technology, which enables one high-energy photon to be converted into five low-energy excitons, completely breaking the traditional Shockley-Quiser limit that a photon can produce at most one exciton.
They achieved a quantum yield of over 500% and a photoelectric conversion efficiency of over 80%, directly breaking through the ceiling of this track.
Lin Chuan is now seen by everyone as a true genius and prodigy.
With each new venture a success, who would dare to question it before the first failure occurs?
Lin Chuan surveyed the crowd and said calmly, "Today's meeting has only one purpose: to establish a patent portfolio for the technological achievements of the 'Aurora Project.' Our patent strategy has only one goal: to make it impossible for others to circumvent it."
Upon hearing this, Song Yi couldn't help but say, "Isn't our strategy to protect our technology by not registering patents?"
Lin Chuan looked at him and replied, "Of course we won't patent the core technology, but we must patent the peripheral technologies. The intellectual property protection strategy for this project is mainly divided into three layers."
Lin Chuan extended three fingers and scanned the attendees.
"The first and most crucial layer is the material formulation, including the molecular structure, synthesis route, and doping scheme of molybdenum-based complexes. These are not patented but protected as trade secrets."
"The second layer involves key processes including thin film deposition process parameters, heat treatment temperature profiles, and specific implementation methods for interface engineering. These technologies are not patented but protected internally as trade secrets."
"The third layer is peripheral technology. These are technologies that are important but lower than core technologies, such as the packaging structure of components, the grid line design of electrodes, the surface treatment methods of flexible substrates, the testing and screening methods of components, etc. All of these have been patented."
Competitors or peers who want to iterate and improve product performance to close the competitive gap must use these peripheral technologies.
With a well-defined patent portfolio, competitors will either have to rely on outdated technology and face irreversible decline, or they will have to align themselves with DeepBlue Technology and pay patent fees.
DeepBlue Technology acts as an upstream supplier, only producing and providing key core components, which account for approximately 7% of the entire product module.
The rest is left to competitors, and then patent fees are collected.
As for the core components, which account for about 7%, that's a separate matter. DeepBlue Technology manufactures and sells these components itself, while competitors purchase them to assemble the final product.
Lin Chuan's approach wasn't about eliminating all competitors and then doing everything himself.
While this is technically possible, building the entire industry chain would be too time-consuming.
With so many cutting-edge technologies in the Hyperdimensional Technology Library, Lin Chuan didn't want to spend too much time and energy on any one technology, otherwise he might unlock a few but never actually implement them in his lifetime.
The most suitable approach is to make competitors "contract manufacturers" for DeepBlue Technology, and to hold the power of life and death over them, kicking out those who disobey.
Those who are obedient will be able to profit alongside DeepBlue Technology.
At this moment, Lin Chuan took out a document and placed it on the conference table: "This is a global patent layout plan. In addition to China, key countries and regions internationally include North America, Europe, the Middle East, Japan and South Korea."
The countries or regions marked on the document are basically the main markets for the photovoltaic industry over the next two thousand years.
Zhang Wei picked up the document and looked at it: "How many patents do we need to register in total?"
Upon hearing this, Lin Chuan glanced at the documents in his hand: "Based on the current technical breakdown, the project team has initially identified 237..."
The patentable aspects cover four dimensions: materials, structure, process, and equipment.
Different patent applications have different approval speeds.
The application processes and examination methods for invention patents, utility model patents, and design patents are different, and there are also significant differences in the approval time.
Of the 237 patents identified by the project team, only a small number were design patents; the majority were invention patents.
The approval cycle for invention patents is the longest. Ordinary applications may take one to three years, while expedited applications may take about three to six months.
It has the longest approval period, but also the broadest scope of protection.
Invention patents emphasize the innovativeness of the technical solution and require two stages: preliminary examination and substantive examination. The focus of the examination is on whether the technology has novelty, inventiveness, and utility.
Zhang Wei flipped through the documents and, upon seeing one page, exclaimed, "Huh? Wasn't it supposed to have reached 82% photoelectric conversion efficiency? Why is it only 45% when registering the patent? And wasn't the quantum yield supposed to be 500%? Why was it changed to 200%?"
"Is that all?"
At this point, Zhang Wei looked up at Lin Chuan and asked, "A mistake?"
Upon hearing this, Lin Chuan chuckled and said, "You're kidding, who starts off with a trump card? Even with a 45% conversion rate, we still crush the entire industry. No one is our competitor."
Si Mingche suddenly realized and said, "I get it, this is just like squeezing toothpaste."
Lin Chuan said, "I guess so, but not entirely. The key is that our country's overall strength and resources are still quite different from those of the United States. The country is keeping a low profile, so we, as technology companies, can't be too aggressive, lest we attract the attention of Europe and the United States."
If you suddenly develop a technological gap that is several levels too large, Europeans and Americans will definitely stop at nothing to get back at you.
As a reborn individual, Lin Chuan knew very well what kind of people Europeans and Americans were.
The current timeline is 2012. If DeepBlue Technology had been targeted and hunted down by the US so early on, it would have been very difficult, and even if the country had stepped in to protect it, it would have been even more passive.
Therefore, it's best to keep a low profile for now and avoid attracting the attention of the Americans too early.
In three to five years, the situation will be much better.
Once the patent strategy was finalized, the meeting adjourned, and DeepBlue Technology's intellectual property department began to get busy.
The 237 patent points were broken down and divided into three batches according to priority.
The first batch consists of core peripheral patents, involving component structure and packaging technology; the second batch consists of process method patents, involving steps such as coating, drying, and heat treatment; and the third batch consists of equipment and testing patents.
DeepBlue Technology now has a workforce of over 1,000, making it a large company with over 1,000 employees, and it is still expanding its recruitment efforts.
The company's employees, especially those in technical positions, all have at least a bachelor's degree.
Employees with master's degrees form the backbone of the company's talent structure, numbering over 600, accounting for more than 65%, and almost all of them are graduates of top-tier universities.
After the company grew and gained a better reputation, it became much easier to recruit people than before.
In the early days of DeepBlue Technology, even with Lin Chuan offering high salaries and benefits, it was difficult to attract many top talents.
The main problem was a lack of trust. The company offered better compensation than those big companies, but it turned out to be a startup, which many people found unreliable.
But now there's no such problem, and no one will think it's a scam company.
The job postings quickly attracted a large number of talented individuals who submitted their resumes.
As the saying goes, talented people are as numerous as carp crossing a river; with such high salaries and benefits, there's no shortage of people coming to join us.
Moreover, Lin Chuan doesn't need any "innovative" talents at all.
The Hyperdimensional Technology Library contains a vast collection of cutting-edge technologies from the near to the far future, covering various fields, eliminating the need for others to create and invent technologies.
Lin Chuan needs engineering application talents who can implement the technology, and such talents are relatively easy to recruit.
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