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The Finest Revolutionary Soldiers of the New Era | Academy of Military Sciences Researcher Chang Chao: Boldly Venturing into the "No-Man's Land" of Scientific Research

最美新时代革命军人风采丨军事科学院研究员常超：勇闯科研“无人区”

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夜幕低垂，灯光微亮。军事科学院国防科技创新研究院某实验室里，研究员常超正俯身调试设备，目光紧盯示波器上跳动的曲线。他偶尔抬头凝神思索，又再度埋头攻关，像在与某道物理难题进行无声较量。 2018年，常超调入新组建的国防科技创新研究院。彼时，他的研究方向从深耕多年的高功率微波，转向尚在起步阶段的太赫兹科学，面临诸多困难。同事问他：“换个赛道从头再来，值吗？”他态度坚定：“抢占太赫兹制高点，关乎国家安全，总要有人蹚路先行。” 那段时间，他请示上级后，和同事们一起把研究院一处闲置房间改造成攻坚阵地。他带领几名年轻科研工作者，一边设置场地，一边开展研究。半年后，全院首个光学超净间实验室开始运行。此后，常超和团队一起攻关国家重要科研项目，研究成果登上国际顶级期刊，赢得业界认可。这群“拓荒者”日夜鏖战，攻克多个难题，在这片“无人区”蹚出一条新路。 “要做第一等的事业，要做中国的脊梁。”在人生的关键岔路口，常超选择以身许国。 2013年斯坦福大学博士后出站时，一份待遇优厚的教职岗位摆在眼前，他留下一句“祖国需要的地方，就是最好的人生舞台”，毅然回国奔赴西部某基地研究所。 2018年，已在原研究领域有所建树的他，主动“归零”，转入太赫兹科学研究领域。同事笑称“常超，非常超人”。他摆摆手：“哪有什么超人，不过是肯坐‘冷板凳’罢了。” 甘坐“冷板凳”，早已成为常超学习和科研的常态。在清华大学读博士时，课堂和实验室几乎占满他的全部生活；每天通勤路上，公交车成了他的“移动思考舱”；休息时，他也没有停止思考，一旦迸发灵感，便立即记录下来。不少发表在某科研刊物上的重要构想，就诞生于这种“灵感闪现”的时刻。常超的办公室书柜里，一摞太赫兹前沿文献并排而立。在外人看来，他是专家、是顶级期刊的“常客”。可对常超而言，科研就是日复一日地伏案、实验、思考。未来，他会继续潜心耕耘，向着国防科技自主创新高地不断冲锋。

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Chang Chao, a researcher at the Academy of Military Sciences' Defense Science and Technology Innovation Research Institute, left a Stanford postdoctoral position in 2013 to join a PLA research base in western China, then in 2018 voluntarily shifted from high-power microwave research to terahertz science — standing up the institute's first optical ultra-clean room laboratory within six months. The article is a profile in the PLA's 'finest revolutionary soldiers of the new era' series; its value is as a record of how AMS frames individual sacrifice and willingness to sit on the 冷板凳 ('cold bench,' meaning unglamorous long-term work) as the institutional ideal for defense researchers. The terahertz focus is substantive — the technology has directed-energy and sensing applications — but the article documents the messaging posture, not the research results.

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Source text. CMC Political Work Department. "最美新时代革命军人风采丨军事科学院研究员常超：勇闯科研“无人区”." PLA Daily (解放军报), 2026-08-10. http://www.81.cn/yw_208727/16478570.html.

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