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again this is all see it with the headline. job russian oil tycoon mikhail khodorkovsky awaits sentencing in a new case that could see in spending more in prison and a second trial has been found guilty of embezzling billions of dollars along with his former business partner told negative currently serving eighty years for tax evasion and sold. russia's prime minister slams our food and airline officials to what he calls unacceptable behavior that thousands of passengers were left stranded in moscow terminals for days without basic travel information and this comes after

a severe weather caused lengthy delays in flight cancellations. and the u.s. military budget grows as less money flows to welfare benefits in south americans are wondering whether they're paying too much to fill the nation as a whole trust the federal debt has reportedly hit its highest level in over sixty get some. time to look towards the future with the world's most promising gizmos and gadgets. next. 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 and 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 meet my sleazy sales pitch 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 countries and in eastern europe we can produce today. it's equal to. we'll cover.

a long line russian. made some of the first strides in constructing the incandescent lamps in the eighteenth seventies using carbon filaments renowned american inventor thomas edison introduced improved filaments been extended to 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 in lamps appeared in. 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. 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. not only did she and the faculty a dilemma. train the ranks of the soviet union top nuclear scientists they also begin work on semiconductors that underpins virtually all modern electronics. was

one of the institutes in the field of semiconductor physics and of today's elite d.'s. were developed. the nine hundred sixty s. we saw the appearance of. based on a three d. find semiconductors. 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 and the two gave them the best of foundations they were completing their studies at a time of difficult transition for the russian scientific community. and the beginning of. our economy facing a dramatic evil due to disastrous reforms implemented by the government i mean there were carried out in a callous way and as a result russian science found itself in a difficult situation we could not have survived maintained scientific potential without 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 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 middle logical complex and europe's largest economy these pictures are from the final days of phoenix west a massive plant operator. along with other heavy industry installations. long before the mill was shuttered for good in one thousand nine hundred eight the economic. crisis. had to take a decision to do for the future. technology

. there is. here. by the way a. 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.

obviously. this. infrastructure in order to do the technology. come from basically. 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 and up to gone were looking for when they came to dortmund and incubate or to help them take tough quality off the 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. this is. the company mainak aeration was here and through this time developed the main principles and basically team to the final product 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 to grow in every taxi all reactors are 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 and positive charge currents meet in the active layer of the diode releasing photons in the form of visible light. recovering the innovation technologies and looked and we 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 main 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. tried. to gun is now busy calibrating their production lines in st petersburg to perfectly recreate the recipe day meal 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 there. for an equivalent amount of light up to gun projects it's. nearly ten fold and incandescents by fifty times meanwhile they 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. . avoid that toxic threat. completely. environmentally safe in russia from next year from. four hundred. other people. but in russia there is no such high penetration. so we see that in terms of the market size. it's bigger. so. expect russian market to grow. and we see the growth of the market for.

one hundred percent a year and. doesn't have to look. as the city of st petersburg is undergoing an l.e.d. overhaul. companies 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. 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 in the city as well as the embankments and. beyond their hometown op to go on 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. 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 . definitely a big competitive game since other companies. already been on the market for years to show the ability to meet customer specific demand. ever lower costs. for.

the. kind of mass consumer. 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 of. the futuristic prototype. screw in a. while. was the main challenge that you guys had to overcome in making these lambs obviously did acknowledge is quite advanced now but they still go to some issues to solve the biggest one ease the problem of couldn't don't because

these produce the laws 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 someone getting stuff like mushrooms for example that apes there they just like cause a new wave in up and go in and we create 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 to look like you mentioned at a deed silva gets in small and small and for example they can demolish your which is called slight engine and physically it's a very very tiny and sleek and thin adamant and they implemented in 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 screens multiplying the devices possibilities.

and the. russian billionaire. is literally hoping to reinvent the wheel. sometime in two thousand and twelve. with all the latest gadgets for the irving to . nixon group. in a new car company so it's no wonder he understood the advantages of that product from st peter's middle which is when you first of all the use of lie to me. and secondly no less important. basically. is to simplify the tax. by saving one hundred season features. has company here as the world's leading luxury sports car makers had 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 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 upstairs from. the factory offices of the russian company. while their classmates and former colleagues. industry in an even deeper into their scientific work on semiconductor physics. international team to become one of the world's leaders in laser diode technology. to complete production cycle beginning here with molecular. and. finishing with a range of packaged products. laser chips and fiber laser modules for use in industrial and communications technology.

research is from the physical technical university where we worked in the laboratory of the. private company here in germany we managed to secure a significant. company other implications produces millions of chips for the medical. research to create a unique to be used in the industry of optical computer interconnections. different place. submitted a project. with a proposal to set up production facilities. chips using. something unique. the technology

is referring to is called quantum dots. where his company is among the global elite . semiconductor crystals. discovered in the one nine hundred eighty s. by physicists. quantum dots are great advantages in laser applications. for more amplitude and. relative noise. company's latest invention. chip that will transmit many channels 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 road. or waiting in traffic. to the same highway sending information on the same fiber using several different. we're talking about. computer. one hundred. two thousand and six.

expect. future. technologies to do. with cutting edge projects. and possibly. successful innovative business abroad and bring them home. from the famous silicon valley taiwan and southeast asia. to build this kind of center in russia. right now that's the heart of the 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 and 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 this has to be done in russia immediately otherwise we would never you know the 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 i'm

a scientist very often say don't understand how huge. the ship would be soo much brighter if you move out soon from funds to friends.