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. towns. in serbia multis available in the hyatt regency. this is the international news broadcaster from moscow these are all top stories tonight. the sentence for russia's most famous prisoner in the scheme the. convicted of money laundering and embezzlement is to spend six more years in prison that would mean a jail term of fourteen years in total as he's already served time for foreign tax evasion. europe's wary of the spread of islamic extremism following the recent arrests for a suspected attack on a danish newspaper published cartoons of the prophet muhammad it is the latest in

a series of arrests across europe throughout the year. and there's no sign of consumerism loosening its grip on american society despite the tough economic times some say the growing addiction to shopping has turned into a religion to be confronted. now to look towards the future with the world's most promising gizmos and gadgets technology update is 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 need my sleazy sales pitch the high tech brainchild of a trio of russian scientists was born abroad and is now returned to russia to ribbon on a shiny new factory at the outskirts of st petersburg aside from being a happy homecoming the 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 so to . go month. it's. a long line russian. made some of the first strides in constructing the

incandescent lamps in the eighteenth seventy's. filaments. inventor thomas edison introduced improved extended relatively short life of electric bulbs. to over one thousand hours early twentieth century the tungsten filament light bulb 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 moscow and beyond it's a project that state high tech. is happy to throw its weight behind. in the field. in fact. all of this physical technical institute. for fundamental physics and cutting edge technology since the days of its founder. would soon. train the ranks of the soviet union's top nuclear scientists they also begin work on semiconductors that underpins virtually all modern electronics. is one of the institutes in the field of semiconductor physics and. to detail.

were developed. twenty. of. the end of the nine hundred sixty is the appearance of d.s. based on a three semiconductor. that was in the late one nine hundred sixty. 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. 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 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 scientific potential international collaboration. 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. 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. an impressive new facility. passed with doors opened in april two thousand and five. for micro. 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 so what you see here in that white board is basically the essence of eight years of experience with the russian friends and i do. you know the route in technology that needs to have access to

global markets openness leaders get in between and don't want this team's 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 get 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 it up to god were looking for when they came to dortmund and the incubator to help them take top quality off the electronic technology into the market. originally was founded by. two my friends and classmates from the university and myself and. myers who joined

us and he helped to move here to. this. company made. and through this time to develop the main principles and basically. loop creatives that today we have between ten companies one is a little of performance so what exactly was it that opera guy needed to get their business off the ground ensure the equipment diodes don't grow on trees they grow in every taxi or reactors able to rent top quality equipment in affordable rates and the m.s.t. factory in the octagon team said 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 l.e.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 encasement connected with gold wire the contacts and covered with the 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. to talk about nano technology while the energy efficiency. recovering the innovation technologies. and we talked to several groups several financial groups and on the group.

much faster 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 the least. 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 all. who have. tried. 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. 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 god 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 let's hear 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 to. expect russian market to grow. and we see the growth of the market for russia. a 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 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 other

key 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 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

. is. 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 demand. standards and. 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 function with the fashionable. futuristic prototype. screw in. was the main challenge that you guys had to overcome in making these lamps obviously edited knowledge 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 a 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 they just like cause a new wave in up and go in and we've created this saying 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 beef up sort of the different look so what then is the future of this kind of designing a look like are you mentioned at the deed silva get in small and small and for example they can close your which is called slight engine and physically it's a very very tiny ensley been adamant and they implemented in that but 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 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. group. in the new car company so it's no wonder he understood the advantages 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 tax. season features. has company here as the world's leading luxury sports car makers head seen the light about 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. from. offices of the russian company. 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 technology. to complete production cycle beginning here with molecular. and. finishing with a range of packaged products. chips and fiber laser modules for use. in communications technology.

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. the. project. was a proposal to set up production facilities. chips using. something unique. to take.

his company's among the global elite. semiconductor crystals with unique electronic . discovered in the one nine hundred eighty s. physicist. great advantages in. quantum. and. relative noise. company's latest invention. one hundred gigabits. you see everywhere today just a few. hundred

times. think of the. data coming out of your computer. today the options are basically building a new road. waiting in traffic. lanes 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. the world. in two thousand and six.

that's a huge number. expect. future. technologies to develop. to competitive firms with cutting edge projects. and possibly. they build successful innovative business abroad and bring them home. over the world from the famous silicon valley to taiwan in southeast asia. to build this 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 and raised right here in enjoy the ride. that. he's going to cover the. scientific groups. to give them kind of conditions like. what we discussed with you when we were there. in order to develop. a prototype. 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. there is a huge gap there is a prototype development and i myself am a scientist they very often say don't understand how much.

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