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up next joy the technology of day team for the latest innovations as they examined the future of white. hello and welcome to technology update are you tired of paying those overblown electric bills at the end of each month this could be the answer you've been waiting for a lot of the energy and with it a lot of the harder in cash gets burned by crummy old incandescent light bulbs but what if i could get you a lot more light and waste way less wattage in the process and up and coming russian company is just open a huge new production facility to help make that energy efficient dream a reality. doesn't need my sleazy sales fish the high tech brainchild of

a trio of russian scientists was born abroad and is now returned to russia to cut ribbon on a shiny new factory at the outskirts of st petersburg aside from being a happy homecoming this assembly line launches a big step in russia's attempts to modernize its economy and go green at the same time. the capacity. is the highest in the business today in russia countries and in eastern europe we can produce today said to me. a month. it's the. russians. made some of the first strides in constructing the incandescent lamps in the seventy's using carbon filaments. inventor thomas edison introduced improved

extended relatively short life of electric bulbs. twentieth century the tungsten filament light bulbs still in use today were already emerging . at the end of the one nine hundred fifty s. and high pressure sodium street lighting in the sixty's compact. were pioneered in the seventy's and are still a popular option as we move towards energy efficiency. diodes may be seen in the ninety's with improvements in technology since then showing incredible flexibility and efficiency quite possibly making. the future. future the big shots the octagon factory opening. clearly understood the positive impact of having the company on and she was joined by top level dignitaries and investors from. state. is happy to throw its weight behind.

in fact. all of this. fundamental physics and cutting edge technology since the days of its founder. would soon. name train the ranks of the soviet union's top nuclear scientists they also begin work on semiconductors that underpins virtually all modern electronics. was one of the institute's bright stars in the field of semiconductor physics and of today's elite d.'s. along to meetings were developed. twenty. russian scientists. experimented with.

the end of the nine hundred sixty s. we saw the appearance of d.s. based on a three semiconductor drug that was in the late one nine hundred sixty s. . is is the next generation know how to develop students and what we see here demonstrates how fast changing both in scientific and technological terms and also in terms of the top rate equipment racing here. top managers. were students in the same mid ninety's graduate class and while the optoelectronics department and gave them the best of foundations they were completing their studies at a time of difficult transition for the russian scientific community. at the beginning of. our economy facing

a dramatic due to disastrous reform by the government i mean they were carried out in a callous way and russian science found itself in a difficult situation we could not have survived maintained our scientific potential international collaboration. founders were part of a generation of innovative entrepreneurs seeking the elusive startup conditions in an era of uncertainty in fact much of the developed world was suffering an economic identity crisis in the late twentieth century. just in the collapsing socialist. german city where the russian innovators eventually found their incubator was no exception. the world is full of rusting old industrial space by the wayside and the constant shifts of the global economy the challenge on everyone's minds is to rethink and rebuild these spaces to compete in the high tech twenty first century.

challenges were particularly acute in a city the once mighty complex and largest economy these pictures are from the final days of phoenix west a massive plant operated by the steel. that along with other heavy industry installations. working class long before the mill was shuttered for good in one thousand nine hundred eight the economic. crisis. they had to take a decision to do for the future. there is a decision you can see here so. by

the way as. impressive new facility. passed. in april two thousand and five. clean room infrastructure companies trying to take technology. from the city state and european union now hosting around twenty companies with over one hundred employees. including many from russia so what you see here in that white board is basically the essence of eight years of experience all rick perry did with russian friends russian i do. you know the route in technology that needs to have access to global markets obviously there is a gap in between and don't want this to teams find the perfect infrastructure in

order to do the conversion of that technology into products where is the money to make that a reality come from well basically it needs investors right but you know to give them this infrastructure in a high tech startup team to make a predictable conversion you have a clear timeframe of two the three years in order to convert technology to products and prepare the company in order to approach global markets that's exactly the kind of preparation. and his classmates turned business partners and up to gone were looking for when they came to dortmund and the incubator to help them take tough quality up to electronic technology to the market. up the gun originally was founded by. two my friends and classmates from university and myself and. meyer who joined us and he helped to move here to. the company. and through this time developed the main principles and

basically came to the final loop created that elegant today we have between ten companies on the level of performance so what exactly was it that opera guy needed to get their business off the ground ensure equipment diodes don't grow on trees they grow in every taxi all reactors are able to read top quality equipment in affordable rates and the m.s.t. factory in the after gun team would set about generating a top quality sample that made them an attractive investment to set up a full scale production here's how it's done. production starts with a thin mana crystal. and a process known as. placed inside a special chamber the wafer is bombarded with various gases to form a multi-layered structure under specific pressure and temperature conditions the gases cause chemical reactions leaving layers of gallium nitride indium nitride and aluminum nitride on the way for surface in each wafer will produce up to thousands

of elite d.s. so a laser edging process cards out the individual chips contacts are then affixed to each one of the tiny l.e.d. chips are now ready to be placed inside the casement connected with gold wire the contacts and covered with a foster layer to convert blue to white light negative than positive charge currents meet in the active layer of the diode releasing photons in the form of visible light. technology while the energy efficiency. recovering the innovation technologies and we look to russia and we've talked to several groups several financial groups and on the group. much faster than others they realize the potential of the company bought it now my expertise. and insight at least.

we found a way that we can grow material with least disliked defects to even. mean that we can build chips with a more cost efficient technology delivering the same level of performance we are in a transition phase for pilots. who have. trying. to gun is now busy calibrating their production lines in st petersburg to perfectly recreate the recipe day nailed down and it's a tedious process even on the prototype scale and now the expectations are higher comes out of these machines is going not to showcase for potential investors but to meet the lighting needs of clients. to plan what advantages can their l.e.d.s. offer for an equivalent amount of light up to gun projects it's. nearly ten fold and incandescents by fifty times meanwhile the l.e.d.s.

will cut in half the energy usage of most c.f.l. and usefully ten times less electricity than an old school bulbs mercury pollution is a potentially serious problem with energy saving c.f.l. . toxic threat. completely. environmentally safe in russia from next year from. four hundred. like other people. but in russia there is no such high penetration of the so we see that in terms of the market size. it's bigger to europe to. expect russian market to grow. we see the growth of the market for russia from seventy to one hundred percent a year and. doesn't have to look. as this city of st petersburg is undergoing an l.e.d.

overhaul. company is in charge of maintaining some one hundred eighty thousand lighting elements around the city that's a huge market for the new. currently power consumption total several megawatts. of the major production plant that will produce and hopefully lights to. initially we intend to use to eliminate the city's gardens and. construction plan in the pipeline with new streets to be designed and built in two thousand and twelve twenty thirteen. so after we've done the pox we'll extend the replacement program to residential districts and then move on to revamp the lighting for major transport rays in the city as well as the embankments and. beyond their hometown octagon is branching out to the far away russian republic of straddling the arctic circle in icy northern siberia energy efficiency is more than

a slogan they're producing electricity in much of the region is expensive and heavily subsidized they also need new technology built to withstand their long brutal winter. what if you. work in temperature conditions like we have a lot of parts of russia. cold country. that you need minus sixty degree. this is a prototype here what's different about it i can't tell with the naked eye but tell me a little bit about the technology i would say that right now you can buy my. degree .

quite. definitely a big competitive game since other companies. already been on the market for years and has to show the ability to meet customer specific demands. ever lower costs. more. for. the. kind of mass consumer base. even if you think.

you might. driving down the cost of chip production somebody needs to tackle the issue of design. creative minds that studios are already on the case. is constantly coming up with new ways to merge. with the fashion. behind the futuristic prototype. screw in a. while. was the main challenge that you guys had to overcome in making these plans obviously did acknowledge it's quite advanced now but they still go to some issues to solve the biggest one ease the problem of couldn't don't because it's pretty use lot of heat so we have to design the very good. read into is that what this thing is right here yeah it's like. the theme we just came out

for the market maybe three years ago and it's just a standard solution but we like to change it and make it more effective and we got inspired by nature because if you look at some of the it stuff like mushrooms for example that apes there just like cause a new wave in up and go in and we've created the same the same similar stuff here and that will help us to extend the capacity and space around and. to make that cooling process more effective from a purely design perspective from an artistic perspective do you like working with bulbs that need a radiator this clunky like when i look at this i see mostly radiator very little ball and you don't get light maybe as much coming down this direction are you looking at ways to completely redo l.e.d. lighting so that you don't have to have such a bulky radiator industry itself is very rapidly changing day by day i think maybe even up to one year we'll have another design beefed up sort of the different look

so what then is the future of this kind of designing the look like there are you mentioned at the deeds silva get in small and small and for example they took knowledge of which is called slide engine and physically it's a very very tiny and sleek and thin element and they implemented that but not you know the common you could wait any shape whatever you want really looking forward to some of the designs may seem a bit frivolous it first glimpse but we're talking about a far more flexible lighting future where we can. to traditional shapes in the name of variety. to just about anything and replace old school single function buttons with tiny. multiplying the devices possibilities. and the. russian billionaire this month is literally hoping to reinvent the wheel. sometime in two thousand and twelve the economy with all the latest gadgets for the

urban commuter. both in the new car company so it's no wonder he understood the advantages of that product from st peter's middle which is the first of the use of light to me. and secondly no less important. basically. to simplify the. features. of the o. has company here as the world's leading luxury sports car makers head seen the light about lamps in recent years as well as the bang for the buck you can expect to encounter more l.e.d.s. on the road. as you can see technology is finding applications everywhere these days even your own living room but it's just the tip of the iceberg.

there are more innovations on the way from the same team of st petersburg scientists. from our. offices of the russian company. their classmates and. industry. even deep into their scientific work on semiconductor physics they've assembled an international team to become one of the world's leaders in laser diode technology endured when they've set up the complete production cycle beginning here with molecular. and. finishing with a range of packaged products. laser chips and fiber laser modules for use. in communications technology. team of researchers from the. university where we worked in the laboratory of the. private company here in germany we managed to secure significant.

produces millions of chips for the medical. research to create a unique chip to be used in the industry of optical computer interconnections. she's a different place now. the. project. was a proposal to set up production facilities. chips using. something unique. to technology live should says referring to is called quantum dot laser. his company is among the global elite quantum dots are confined semiconductor crystals. discovered in the one nine hundred eighty s.

physicist. quantum dots are great advantages in laser applications. for more amplitude and. relative noise. benefits. company's latest invention. through its. one hundred gigabits. you see everywhere today just a few. hundred . think of the. data coming out of your computer.

today the options are basically building a new road. waiting in traffic with the data. to the same highway sending information on the same fiber using several different. and each plane is flying it. and you see what kind of breakthrough we're talking about . redefining the computer. one hundred. around the world. in two thousand and six. that's a huge number so expect. future. technologies

to develop. to competitive firms with cutting edge projects. and possibly the way they build successful innovative business abroad and bring them home. over the world from the famous silicon valley to taiwan in southeast asia. kind of center in russia. right now that's part of the skolkovo project an international city of science and technology over the next decade in all directions from this spot just outside of moscow so the next time technology update brings you a high tech success story it might just be born in raised right here in enjoy the right. that. is going to cover

these. scientific groups. to give them kind of conditions like. what we discussed with you when we were there and. in order to develop. your prototype and get custom attraction and this has to be done in russia immediately otherwise we would never you know breach between science and manufacturing would be because between science and manufacturing there is a huge gap there is a prototype development and scientist i myself am a scientist they very often they don't understand how huge.