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cancellations. in the us military budget grows as less money flows to wealth that benefits south americans are wondering whether they're paying too much to fill the nation's war chest the federal debt concert also today hit its highest level in over sixty. next he'll analyse trying to look towards the future with the world's most promising mosen the gadgets technology is up 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 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 companies 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 be in 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 the long line

russians. 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 been extended to the relatively short life of electric bulbs first to 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. at the end of the one nine hundred fifty s. and high pressure sodium street lighting in the sixty's compact florescent stores. 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 that brought out the big shots to 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. in the faculty of. train the ranks of the soviet union's top nuclear scientists they also begin work on semiconductors that underpins virtually all modern electronics. one of the

institutes in the field of semiconductor physics and of today's elite d's. and sixty's we saw the appearance of. yeah that was in the late one nine hundred sixty. is is the next generation know how developed 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 op electronics

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 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 with international collaboration. founders were part of a global generation of innovative entrepreneurs seeking the elusive startup conditions in an era of uncertainty in fact much of the developed world was suffering in 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 in europe's largest economy these pictures are from the final days of phoenix west a massive plant operator. 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 outlook. from the crisis. they had to take a decision to do for the future. technology

. was the decision and the result of this decision you can see here so. by the way as. impressive new facility. passed the doors opened in april two thousand and five. for micro. clean room infrastructure for small companies trying to take technology ideas. from the city state and european union now hosting around twenty companies with over one hundred employees including many from russia with.

technology. obviously they. don't want this. perfect infrastructure in order to do the technology and where the money to come from basically. but you know to get this infrastructure in a. to make a predictable conversion you have a 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 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 off the electronic technology into the market. originally was founded by. two my friends and classmates from university and myself and. meyer who joined us

and he helped to move here. it is. the company made in creation. and through this time to develop the main principles and basically team. loop creatives 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 are able to rent top quality equipment in affordable rates and the m.s.t. factory and the after gun 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 mana crystal lean sapphire wafer in 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 a 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. technology. recovering the innovation technologies. and we talked to.

several financial groups and. much faster they. bought it. and. we found the way the. least disliked defects to even. mean that we can build chips with a more efficient technology delivering the same level of performance we are in a transition phase for all. who have. busy calibrating their production lines in st petersburg to perfectly recreate the recipe they nailed down in it's a tedious process. 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 and usefully ten times less electricity than old school bulbs mercury pollution is a potentially serious problem with energy saving c.f.l. . elegies completely. environmentally safe in russia from next year from. the ban four hundred watt incandescent bulbs like other people do as well. but in russia there is no such high penetration of the so we see that in terms of the market size direct replacement. is bigger compared to europe to. 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 that to continue. doesn't have to look for customers is the city of st petersburg is undergoing an l.e.d. overhaul. now 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 will be a boost for some pages the initially we intend to use to eliminate the cities gardens and. there's also an ambitious new 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 icy northern siberia energy efficiency is more than a slogan they're producing electricity and 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 they'll work in. temperature conditions like we have a lot of parts of russia. we just. 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 . at what. is definitely a big part of the heavily competitive game since other companies. already been on the market for years and has to show the ability to meet customer specific demands to temperature standards and it's better lighting solutions ever lower costs. more. like.

kind of mass consumer base is a bit beyond our grasp even if you think your street and industrial lighting would be great. you might when you saw the three hundred dollars price tag. on driving down the cost of chip production somebody needs to tackle the issue of design before. the solution lead to creative minds that more deliberative studios are already on the case my scales hip 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 the technology is quite advanced now but it still goes some issues to solve the biggest one ease 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 for it 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 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 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 a look like you mentioned at the deed self get in small and small and for example they can close your which is called slight engine and physically it's a. but you know the comma you could wait. but some of the designs may seem a bit frivolous first glance but we're talking about a far more flexible lighting future where we can ditch traditional shapes in the name of variety of color to just about anything and replace old school single function buttons with tiny. multiplying your devices possibilities another.

occasion is in an automobile lighting and the hybrid russian billionaire this month is literally hoping to invent the wheel. sometime in two thousand and twelve the economy cars are trimmed with all the latest gadgets for the urban commuter. mixing 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 square which is when you first of all the use of light to me. and secondly no less important the extended lifespan basically. is the use of l e d's to simplify the code. by saving and features. to move the o. has company here as the world's leading luxury sports car maker's head seen 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 up 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. semiconductor physics. international. technology. the complete production beginning here with molecular. and finishing with a range of packaged products. chips and fiber. for use.

in communications technology. private company. significant. other implications produces millions of chips for. research to create a unique to be used in the industry of optical computer interconnections. different place. the. project. 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 these properties have long been theorized benefits are on the verge of realisation. on the bases of the company's latest invention we will be able to make a chip that will transmit many channels through a single fiber move and one hundred gigabits per second. it will help replace the both keep bunches of cables that you see everywhere today just

a few fibers also we can cut energy consumption by several dozen times and the maintenance costs many hundred times so it. think of it this way all 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 non-interfering wave links and to that the fact that each plane is flying in speed and you see what kind of breakthrough we're talking about multiply that by the scale of data the firm like google facebook or amazon and you're redefining the world of cloud computing. there are some 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 the data processing industry two

percent of electric energy production in the united states that's a huge number so expect to revolutionize the optical interconnects industry in the near future with research and development and production sites in germany. so obviously the right conditions for top russian optoelectronics technologies to develop have been set up in. two competitive firms with. and possibly. bring them home. from the.

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