China News Service, Beijing, November 5th. With the theme of "Building a New Atomic Highland and Starting a New Journey of Manufacturing", the Beijing Station of the "Academician Experts City Tour" event for atomic-level manufacturing was held in Huairou, Beijing from November 3rd to 5th. More than 10 academicians and experts and representatives from relevant ministries and commissions, relevant departments in Beijing and provinces such as Liaoning and Shaanxi discussed the innovative development of atomic-level manufacturing through on-site surveys, seminars and exchanges, results release, and supply and demand docking.
Academicians and experts went to Huairou Science City to conduct on-the-spot investigations, and successively inspected Huairou Science City’s New Productivity Creation Center, Comprehensive Extreme Condition Experimental Equipment and Zhongke Ecomi (Beijing) Technology Co., Ltd. The New Quality Productivity Creation Center is the core carrier of the achievement transformation of the Science City. It focuses on cutting-edge fields such as atomic-level manufacturing, quantum technology, high-end instruments, and future health. It builds a platform for concept verification, pilot incubation, and achievement docking to open up the channel from basic research to industrialization. The comprehensive extreme condition experimental device can provide ultra-low temperature for material preparation and characterization. , ultra-high pressure and other extreme environments are important supports for the research and development of atomic-precision devices. Huairou's new atomic-level manufacturing platform is built on this device; Zhongke Aikemi is a domestic high-end vacuum scientific research instrument company. The scanning probe microscope, molecular beam epitaxy, atomic layer deposition and other equipment developed are key tools for "seeing clearly and building accurately" in atomic-level manufacturing.
At the Atomic Level Manufacturing Academician Expert City Tour (Beijing) Innovation and Development Seminar, Chen Zhaohui, deputy director of the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Economy and Information Technology, said that the leap in manufacturing precision from nanometers to atoms is no longer a quantitative change of "more precision", but a qualitative change that opens up a new technological space, which directly determines the industrial competitiveness of the next generation of chips and devices. He introduced that Beijing is making concerted efforts from four dimensions: policy supply, innovation support, ecological creation, and scene traction, and will use this seminar as an opportunity to build a platform for peers across the country to exchange experience and connect with each other for cooperation. At the same time, we will deepen cooperation with academicians and experts, and relevant national ministries and commissions, and gather strength in terms of policy coordination, research layout, and resource allocation to promote atomic-level manufacturing from cutting-edge exploration to industrial implementation. Beijing will speed up the construction of a new atomic highland and cultivate practical productivity as soon as possible.
Zhang Qiang, Secretary of the Huairou District Committee of Beijing and Secretary of the Party Working Committee of Huairou Science City, said that atomic-level manufacturing is an advanced manufacturing industry that is extremely technically challenging, industrially innovative and economically stimulating, and has become the commanding heights of science and technology that countries are competing for. He introduced that Huairou is accelerating the construction of a distinctive atomic-level manufacturing innovation ecosystem, creating an "energy release peninsula" that centrally carries the transformation of large-scale scientific device results, and laying out common technology platforms and real-life application scenarios around concept verification, small and medium-scale trials, and industrialization; the city's only atomic-level manufacturing innovation platform has been launched in Huairou, which will help the development of the entire industry chain. He said that Huairou will give full play to the advantages of the new national system, strengthen research on cutting-edge technologies and key core technologies, and promote atomic-level manufacturing from "following" and "running parallel" to "leading".
Mao Junfeng, deputy director of the High-tech Department of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, said that atomic-level manufacturing advances manufacturing precision and structure to the atomic level by precisely manipulating atoms on a large scale, pushing product performance to the limit. It is a key track for cultivating new productivity and a core area of global original innovation competition. He suggested strengthening original innovation leadership, giving full play to the role of strategic scientific and technological forces such as Beijing universities and national laboratories, deepening collaborative linkage, and spawning a number of original technologies and landmark achievements; adhering to scenario-driven development, promoting leading enterprises to open up major application scenarios, and providing pilot carriers for innovative products; optimizing the supply of financial products, guiding investment and financing institutions to develop financial products that adapt to the long-cycle research characteristics of atomic-level manufacturing, and opening up the financing chain for the entire cycle of technology industrialization.
Luo Jianbin, academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, academician of the Academy of Sciences of Developing Countries, and professor of the Department of Mechanical Engineering of Tsinghua University, gave a report titled "New Technologies Affecting the Development of Manufacturing Industry". He said that manufacturing is moving from the "nano age" to the "atomic age". He believes that atomic-level manufacturing utilizes the unique quantum effects and special energy transfer laws of the atomic scale, and takes discrete matter and discrete energy as the basic assumptions to achieve a revolutionary new manufacturing paradigm of "mechanical manufacturing", "physical manufacturing" and "chemical manufacturing".
Sun Hongbo, academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, professor of the Department of Precision Instruments of Tsinghua University and director of the National Key Laboratory of Precision Testing Technology and Instruments, gave a report titled "Optical Near-Atomic Scale Manufacturing". He introduced that the team proposed a new near-atomic scale manufacturing method based on the optical self-limiting effect, using ultrafast lasers to break through the optical diffraction limit and advance the processing accuracy from hundreds of nanometers to ten nanometers and even quantum limit scales. It has been applied in batches in semiconductor wafer cutting, optical chip manufacturing and other directions, and has formed a self-developed complete set of equipment. He said that atomic-level manufacturing is not far away, and related technologies include both theory and application, processes and equipment.
At the meeting, regional typical application scenarios and the top ten regional product results were released one after another. The regional typical application scenarios released focus on the real needs of the frontline of the industry, covering atomic-level processes and equipment for integrated circuits, high-efficiency atomic-level trimming technology for hemispheric resonant gyroscopes, atomic-level manufacturing of high-end MEMS devices, etc. Among them, Beijing’s high-end precision machining shared service platform relies on atomic layer polishing and ion beam atomic-level removal to implement atomic-level non-destructive removal and frequency difference closed-loop modification of the hemispheric resonant gyro thin-walled spherical shell, serving the autonomy of long-life satellites and ship inertial navigation core components; China Metrology Research The strontium atom optical lattice clock developed by the institute has achieved a "zero breakthrough" for my country's optical clock to control international standard time; the Institute of Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences relies on the full-process technology of ultra-high vacuum atomic-level precision ALD, MBE, PLD, and RIE to support quantum chips that can be calculated, manufactured, and replicated.
The release of the top ten product results in the region focuses on the four key links of "design-construction-processing-testing" of atomic-level manufacturing, focusing on Beijing's progress from basic research to engineering applications. For example, Beijing Longxunkuangteng Technology Co., Ltd. launched the world's first machine learning force field MatPL that can simulate atomic-level simulations to the mesoscopic scale, and realized the molecular dynamics simulation of 1.62 trillion atoms for the first time in the world; Tsinghua University developed atomic-level construction technology based on directional assembly, which has been made into 600-nanometer ultra-thin flexible devices, providing an innovative path for the manufacturing of embodied intelligent flexible sensors; Zhongke Aikemi (Beijing) Technology Co., Ltd. independently developed an intelligent scanning probe microscopic imaging control system, breaking the long-term monopoly of this control system by foreign manufacturers.
Wang Jing, director of the Science and Technology Standards Department of the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Economy and Information Technology, introduced the city's measures to promote the development of the atomic-level manufacturing industry, accelerating promotion from four aspects: measures, platforms, ecology, and brands: In terms of measures, building a system supply that is connected at the municipal and district levels, the municipal level introduced an atomic-level manufacturing innovation and development action plan, deploying five major projects; in terms of platforms, creating a new Huairou atomic-level manufacturing education platform to promote atomic-level manufacturing In terms of ecology, the Beijing Atomic Level Manufacturing Society was launched and four types of future industry partners, including industrial mentors, industry managers, investment partners, and scenario partners, were recruited to integrate resources; in terms of branding, the company implemented the "Win the Future" growth plan, providing support of no more than 10 million yuan to companies that pass public roadshows, and regularly holding "Future Industry X Salon" to promote industry-university-research collaboration.
Han Jian, member of the Party Working Committee of Beijing Huairou Science City, deputy director of the Management Committee of Huairou Science City, and deputy head (and concurrently) of the Huairou District People’s Government, introduced the Huairou Comprehensive National Science Center. He introduced that Huairou has deployed 37 scientific research facilities, 29 of which are in operation, and 17 of which are open and shared globally. It is one of the areas with the densest concentration of major scientific and technological infrastructure in the world, and can provide solid support for atomic-level manufacturing from "seeing atoms clearly" to "regulating atoms" and then "verifying devices". The event introduced a number of measures for the innovative development of the atomic-level manufacturing industry being planned in Huairou District. Ten major measures were launched around the three levels of "innovation strategy - transformation and application - element guarantee", highlighting the three directions of "device use", "first trial and first use" and "ecological synergy" to accelerate the construction of an atomic-level manufacturing innovation ecosystem.
During the event, the preparatory work for the Beijing Atomic Level Manufacturing Society was officially launched, witnessed by leaders of the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Economy and Information Technology, Huairou District, and academicians and experts. As an industry organization platform in the field of atomic-level manufacturing, the society is jointly initiated by universities, leading enterprises, investment institutions and other parties. Its member units include the Institute of Instruments and Instruments, Huairou Instrument and Sensor Company, Institute of Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Institute of Metrology and many well-known universities. It will focus on technological research, achievement transformation and application scenario construction to promote the development of Beijing's atomic-level manufacturing industry.
This event also held an atomic-level manufacturing innovation and development symposium, a technology supply and demand matchmaking meeting, the Beijing Atomic-level Manufacturing Society Preparatory Meeting and Atomic-level Manufacturing Future Industry X Salon, and the Atomic-level Manufacturing Innovation and Development Alliance Member Conference, etc. The event aims to continuously deepen practical cooperation and jointly contribute to promoting the innovative development of atomic-level manufacturing and serving the country's high-level scientific and technological independence and self-reliance.
