No?
No?!
Wang Zhengfei was left utterly baffled by Lu Zhou's "no?" and did not react for quite a while.
Seeing a trace of disappointment gradually appear on President Wang's face, Lu Zhou took another sip of tea, then said seriously, "Graphene transistors are not my field of research. There is someone else responsible for solving that technical problem. I merely solved some issues concerning Mott Insulators in graphene, contributing a tiny bit of theoretical work."
Calling it tiny might have been somewhat modest. After all, the discovery of Mott Insulators and the theoretical calculations involved could be said to have played a decisive role in the discovery of semiconductor graphene.
Thus, calling it a tiny contribution was definitely an exaggeration...
It was probably more like a moderate contribution.
However, the Carbon-Based Transistor really was Professor Wu's contribution. Although, as the project's chief director, Lu Zhou had the right to claim the credit for himself—and this was hardly unusual in academia—he could not be bothered to do such a thing.
Wang Zhengfei looked at Lu Zhou in confusion.
After a while, he smiled awkwardly and said,
"Sorry... I don't really understand that insulator thing you mentioned... In short, does it have something to do with Carbon-Based Transistors?"
Lu Zhou could not be bothered to explain it, and he had guessed that Wang Zhengfei was not interested in learning anyway, so he merely nodded.
"More or less."
In an instant, Wang Zhengfei's eyes became fervent again.
Who had invented the technology was not the key issue, or rather, not the issue he needed to care about. Even if he knew who had developed it, he could not risk a price hike in Lithium Batteries to poach people from Lu Zhou. More importantly, the key patents were clearly held by the Jinling