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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 the high tech 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 the business today in russia countries and in eastern europe we can produce today. 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. then to over one thousand hours early 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 cars. 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 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. in fact. cademy 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. 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. was one of the

institutes in the field of semiconductor physics and of today'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 conductor. that was in late one nine hundred sixty s. . these facilities is the next generation know how to 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. 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 evil due to disastrous. i mean there were carried out in a callous way and russian science found itself in a difficult situation we could not have survived maintained all scientific potential with international collaboration. of innovative entrepreneurs seeking 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 of dortmund 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 of the once mighty complex and largest economy these pictures are from the final days of phoenix west a massive plant operated by the steel giant that along with other heavy industry installations. flooded the city's well established working class long before the mill was shuttered for good in one thousand nine hundred eight the economic outlook and. the people from the crisis. had to take a decision to do for the future. not

. the decision and the result of this decision you can see here so. by the way. inside is an impressive new facility a far cry from the dreary dortmund of years past when doors opened in april two thousand and five. factory. for micro and nanotechnology. laboratory clean room infrastructure for small companies trying to take technology from ideas to products the facility combines funding 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 on the board is basically the essence of eight years of experience all rick perry did with

a dozen friends and i decided. 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 find the perfect infrastructure in order to do the conversion of that technology into products where is the money to make a reality come from well basically it needs investors right but you know to get them this infrastructure in a high tech start up team to make a predictable conversion you have a clear timeframe move to the few 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 to help them take top 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. myers who joined us

and he helped to move here to. this. company made a career. and through this time to develop the main principles and basically team. loop created the 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 ensured equipment. diodes don't grow on trees to grow in every taxi or reactors able to rent top quality equipment in affordable rates and the m.s.t. factory in 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 model crystalline 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 l.e.d.s. so a laser edging process cards out the individual chips contacts are then affixed each one to tiny l.e.d. chips are now ready to be placed inside the casement they are connected with gold wire 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 while the energy efficiency. recovering the innovation technologies. and we talked to several groups several financial groups and.

they. bought it. and inside. we found the way the. 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. busy calibrating their production lines in st petersburg to perfectly recreate the recipe day nailed down and 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 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 like. mercury pollution is a potentially serious problem with energy saving c.f.l. . toxic threat. completely. environmentally safe in russia. four hundred. people. but in russia. we see that in terms of the market size. it's bigger. this expect russian market to grow. we see the growth of the market for

russia from seventy to one hundred percent a year and we expect it to continue. 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. vicious municipal 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 raise 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 icy 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. still work in temperature conditions like we have a lot of parts of russia. cold country. 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 minus sixty degree. what. those high end. design is definitely a big part of the heavily competitive game since other companies outside of already been on the market for years gone has to show the ability to meet customer specific demands temperature standards and it's better lighting solutions ever lower costs definitely it's like more economical light. today. from two to five six years. but in four years.

that kind of mass consumer base is a bit beyond our grasp even if you think the street in 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 i'm sold on switching over to. the creative minds of studios are already on the case moscow's hip is designed is constantly coming up with new ways to merge high tech function with the fashionable for their blueprints a behind the futuristic prototype octagon screw in a. while. 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 ease the problem of couldn't don't because

these produce a lot 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 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 because of the way of in up and go and we created the same the same similar stuff here and it will help to extend the capacity and space around and. to make the 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 a different look so what then is the future of this kind of designing the look like you mentioned at a deed silva get in small and small and for example they came a bit closer which is called slide engine and physically it's a very very tiny ensley been 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 a 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. with all the latest gadgets for the. next in group. in a new car company so it's no wonder he understood the advantages of that product from st peters google which is when you first of all. and secondly no less important the extended lifespan. is to simplify the. precision features. has company here as the world's leading luxury sports car makers head seen the light of. 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 livingroom 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. their classmates and. industry. even deeper 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. to complete production cycle beginning here with molecular. and. finishing with a range of package products includes 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 significant funds from investors and. other implications produces millions of chips for the medical. research to create a unique to be used in the industry of optical computer interconnections. she's a different place now with. the. project. with a proposal to set up production facilities. chips using. something unique.

to his called quantum dot laser. his company is among the global elite quantum dots are confined semiconductor crystals with unique electronic an optical properties discovered in the one nine hundred eighty s. by physicists. quantum dots are great advantages in laser applications. for more amplitude and. relative noise. benefits. company's latest invention. make a chip many channels through its. one hundred gigabits. you see everywhere today just

a few. hundred times so. think of the. data coming out of your computer. today the options are basically building a new road. waiting in traffic with the other 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. two thousand and six.

that's a huge number. 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. the time come to build up 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. to take scientific groups. to give them kind of conditions like a factory what we discussed with you when we were there and set up a small manufacturing in order to develop. a prototype. and this has to be done in russia immediately otherwise we would never you know cross the bridge between science and manufacturing because between science and. there's a huge gap there is a prototype development and scientist i myself am a scientist very they don't understand.