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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 brainchild of a trio of russian scientists was born abroad and is now returned to russia to have been on a shiny new factory at the outskirts of st petersburg aside from being a happy homecoming 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 russia. and in eastern europe we can produce. we'll. in a long line russian. made some of the first strides in constructing the

incandescent lamps in the seventy's using carbon filaments renowned american inventor thomas edison introduced improved filaments extended to the relatively short life of electric bulbs forty then to over one thousand hours by the early twentieth century the tungsten filament light bulb still in use today were already emerging and lamps appeared in the. lamps at the end of the one nine hundred fifty s. and high pressure sodium street lighting in the sixty's compact fluorescents or c.f.l. were pioneered in the seventy's and are still a popular option as we move towards energy efficiency. light emitting diodes may be seen in the ninety's with improvements in technology since then showing incredible flexibility and efficiency quite possibly making the lighting of the future. future that brought out 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 moscow and beyond it's a project that state high tech corporation is happy to throw its weight behind. in the field of hatred which is. in fact. cademy at the root of all of this physical technical institute it's been a world class center for fundamental physics and cutting edge technology since the days of its founder. is named train the ranks of the soviet union's top nuclear scientists they also begin work on semiconductors that underpins virtually modern electronics. was one of the institute's bright stars in the field of semiconductor physics and of

today's daily d.'s. to me to develop. the nine hundred sixty s. we saw the appearance of. based on a three semiconductor hitch. yeah that was in the late one nine hundred sixty. is is the next generation know how to develop students and what we see here demonstrates how fast this area is changing both in scientific and technological terms and also in terms of the top rate equipment racing here. top managers. of students in the same mid ninety's graduate class and while the optoelectronics department 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 reforms to the by the government i mean the way carried down to make this way and as a result russian science found itself in a difficult situation we could not have survived maintained scientific potential international collaboration. founders were part of a ration 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 not just in the collapsing socialist bloc the west german city of dortmund where the russian innovators eventually founder incubate 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. these challenges were particularly acute endured more of a city at the heart of the once mighty male logical complex and europe's largest economy these pictures are from the final days of phoenix west a massive plant operate. 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 for small 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.

obviously. this is. the perfect infrastructure in order to do the technology and to. come from basically. you know to get this infrastructure in a. to make a predictable conversion you have a clear timeframe move to the for use in order to convert technology to products and prepare the company in order to approach global markets that's exactly the kind of preparation alex and his classmates turned business partners it up to god were looking for when they came to dortmund and to help them take top quality optoelectronics technology into the market. up the gun originally was founded by. two my friends and classmates from university and myself and. myers who joined

us and he helped to move in here. it is. the company mainak aeration was here and through this time developed the main principles and basically came to the final call the loop created that elegant today we have between ten companies on the level of performance so what exactly was it that opera gun needed to get their business off the ground insured equipment light emitting diodes don't grow on trees they grow in every taxi all reactors able to rent top quality equipment in affordable rates and the m.s.t. factory in the octagon team could set about generating the top quality samples that made them an attractive investment to set up a full scale production here's how it's done production starts with a thin model crystal lean sapphire wafer 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 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 in. casement connected with the contacts and covered with the foster layer to convert blue to white light negative in positive charge currents meet in the active layer of the diode releasing photons in the form of visible life. energy efficiency. recovering the innovation technologies. and we've talked to several groups several financial groups and on the group.

they. bought it. and inside of these. we found a way that we can grow material with the least disliked defects. even. meaning that we can build chips was a more cost efficient technology delivering the same level of performance we are in a transition phase for pilots. who have. 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. 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. for an equivalent

amount of light up to go on 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 use fully ten times less electricity than old school bulbs mercury pollution is a potentially serious problem with energy saving c.f.l. . completely. environmentally safe in russia from next year. we have a ban four hundred. other people. but in russia there is no such high penetration of the so we see that in terms of the market size directly placement. it's bigger. we expect russian market to grow. and we see the growth of the market for russia

from seventy to one hundred percent a year and we expect this to continue. doesn't have to look too far. as this city of st petersburg is undergoing an l.e.d. overhaul. our 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 a major production plant that will produce and hopefully lights to. initially we intend to use to eliminate the city's gardens and. there's also an ambitious new miscible 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 to raise in the city as well as the embankments and other case sites beyond their hometown optic on his branching out

to the far away russian republic of straddling the arctic circle in northern siberia energy efficiency is more than a slogan there since 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 have you guys done to make it work in. temperature conditions like we have a lot of parts of russia. and 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

. is definitely a big heavily competitive game since other companies. already been on the market for years octagon has to show the ability to meet customer specific demands like to temperature standards and it's better lighting solutions ever lower costs. like.

kind of mass consumer base is a bit beyond our grasp even if you think. you might when you saw the three hundred dollars price tag. driving down the cost of chip production somebody needs to tackle the issue of design. the solution lead to creative minds that more deliberative studios are already on the case my scales tip is designed squad is constantly coming up with new week to merge high tech functions with the fashionable for their blueprints a behind the futuristic prototype octagon screw in a light pole. what was the main challenge that you guys had to overcome in making these lamps obviously did acknowledge is quite advanced now but they still go to some issues to solve the biggest one is the problem of couldn't don't use the loss of heat so we have to design the very good. radiant is that what this

thing is right here yeah it's like. the theme we just came out for the market 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 great stuff like mushrooms for example that apes they're just like cars a new wave in up and go and we create the same the same similar stuff here and it will help us to extend the capacity and space around and. to make that cooling process more effect 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 to look like are you mentioned at the deed self gets in small and small and for example they need to acknowledge it which is called slight engine and physically it's a. but you know the comma. but some of the designs may seem a bit frivolous a first glance but we're talking about a far more flexible light in future where we can ditch traditional shapes in the name of variety added bit of color to just about anything and replace old school single function buttons with tiny. multiplying your devices possibilities. cation is in an automobile lighting and the hybrid russian billionaire this month

is literally hoping to reinvent the wheel. sometime in two thousand and twelve the economy cars are trimmed with all the latest gadgets for the urban commuter. mix in group backs both octagon in the new car company so it's no wonder he understood the advantages of that product from st peter's little which is when you first of all the use of lie to me. and secondly no less important the extended lifespan basically. is to simplify the. lowering costs by saving and features. as company here as the world's leading luxury sports car makers head see the light about l.e.d. lamps in recent years as well as the bang for the buck gets better you can expect to encounter more l.e.d.s.

on the road. as you can see the technology is finding applications everywhere these days even your own living room but it's just the tip of the iceberg back in the dorm an incubator there are more innovations on the way from the same team of st petersburg scientists upstairs from octagons launching pad factory i don't offices of the russian companies. industry. scientific semiconductor. international. technology. beginning here with molecular. and finishing with a range of packaged products. laser chips and fiber. for use. in communications technology.

private company here. produces millions of chips for. research to create a unique. industry of optical computer interconnections. different place. with a proposal to. something unique. to technology.

companies among the global elite. discovered in the one nine hundred eighty s. businesses. are great advantages. and. relative noise. benefits. on the bases of a company's latest invention will be able to make a chip that will transmit many channels through a single fiber move than one hundred gigabits. it will help replace the bulky bunches of cables that you see everywhere today just a few fibers. several dozen times and the maintenance costs

many hundred times so. think of the. data coming out of your computer gets on a highway today the options are basically either building a new road. or waiting in traffic with the other data. adding lanes to the same highway sending information on the same fiber using several different. wavelengths add to that the fact that each plane is flying it speed and you see what kind of breakthrough we're talking about multiply that by the scale of data. google facebook or amazon and you're redefining the world of cloud computing. one hundred data centers being set up every year around the world these are enormous factories for data processing consuming a huge amount of energy. in two thousand and six. production in the united states that's

a huge number so expect to revolutionize the. future with research and development and production sites in germany. so obviously the right conditions for top russian optoelectronics technologies to develop have been. to competitive firms with. innovative business abroad. over the world. right now. project an international city of. over the next decade.

it might just be born right here. enjoy the ride. he's going to these. groups. to give them kind of. these to be done in russia. we would never you know breach. would be. very. much.