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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 ribbon on a shiny new factory at the church of st petersburg aside from being a happy homecoming the l.e.d. 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 or in the business today in russia countries and in eastern europe we can produce today said to me. it's. a long line russian. made some of the first strides in constructing the incandescent lamps in the eight hundred seventy s.

. filaments. inventor thomas edison introduced improved filaments that 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 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 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. 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 elite d.'s.

along to meetings were developed. twenty. of. the end of the nine hundred sixty is we saw the appearance of d.s. based on a three semiconductor drug that was in the late one nine hundred sixty s. . these facilities 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 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. by the government i mean there were carried out in a callous way. 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 of dortmund where the russian innovators eventually found 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 europe's largest economy these pictures are from the final days of phoenix west a massive plant operated by the. that along with other heavy industry installations . cities well established working class long before the mill was shuttered for good in one thousand nine hundred eight the economic. crisis. to take a decision to do for the future. there is a decision you can see here. by

the way as. an impressive new facility. of years past with doors opened in april two thousand and five. factory. clean room infrastructure for small companies trying to take technology from. the facility 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 really very good with a dozen friends and i do. you know the route in technology that needs to have access to global markets over the city there is a gap in between and don't want this. 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 start up to him 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 to the market. up the gun originally was founded by. two my friends and classmates from the university and myself and. meyer who joined us and he helped to move here to. this.

company made. and through this time to develop the main principles and basically team. loop created that 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 ensure equipment. 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 in the after gun team could set about generating a top quality sample 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. 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 each one to tiny l.e.d. chips are now ready to be placed inside the casement connected with gold wire the contacts and covered with a 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 light. technology while the energy efficiency of. recovering the innovation technologies and look to russia and we've talked to several groups of friends several financial groups and on the group michael crocker of they will like much faster than others they realize the potential of the company and they simply bought it now main expertise and wing corvo technology and ease

inside of the protection lives we found a way that we can grow material with a least dislike and 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 pilot minutes factoring who have here in germany. going to try and establish an today in russia octagon 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. 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 god projects it's. nearly ten fold and 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 old school bulbs mercury pollution is a potentially serious problem with energy saving c.f.l. . toxic threat. completely. environmentally safe in russia for. four hundred. people. in russia. so we see that the market size. is bigger to europe to. expect russian market to. receive the growth of the market for russia from seventy to one hundred percent and we expect it to continue. doesn't have to look. as the city of st petersburg is undergoing an

l.e.d. overhaul. company is in charge of maintaining some one hundred eighty thousand. the city that's a huge market for the new. production plant. initially we intend to use. the city's. construction plan in the pipeline with new streets to be designed and built in two thousand and twenty thirteen. after we've done the will extend the replacement program to residential districts and then move on to read the lighting for major transport to raise in the city as well as the embankments and other key sites beyond their hometown up to gone as 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. 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 minus a degree. from the market what we have to

make those. new. design is definitely a big part of the heavily competitive game since other companies outside of russia have 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 all about better lighting solutions ever lower costs definitely it's like more economical light. off to you. today. six years. but in four years it will be like. one. source of light and it means that it will for really popular. now that kind of skill consumer base is a bit beyond our grasp even if you think this lame or street industrial lighting

will be great for your garage you might balk when you saw the three hundred dollars price tag so well done works on driving down the cost of chip production somebody needs to tackle the issue of ball design before i'm sold on switching over to. the fortunately the creative minds that hard limit of studios are already on the case my scales hip is designed squad is constantly coming up with new ways 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 there's still some issues to solve the biggest one is the problem of couldn't don't use loss of heat so we have to design a very good. 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 of the stuff like mushrooms for example very very just like the new wave in up and go and we created the same the same similar stuff here and. extend the capacity and space and. process more effect from a purely design perspective from an artistic perspective. do you lie. 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 the 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 a different look so what then is the future of this kind of design a look like mentioned. gets in small and small and for example a technology which is called slide engine and physically it's a very very tiny. thing. and they implemented that but you know the common you could create any shape whatever you want. but 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 ditch traditional shapes in the name of variety add a bit of color to just about anything and replace old school single function buttons with tiny l e discrete multiplying your devices possibilities another reader for cation is in the automobile lighting and the be a hybrid by russian billionaire this month is literally hoping to reinvent the

wheel. full scale production sometime in two thousand and twelve the economy cars are trimmed with all the latest gadgets for the urban commuter could have said next a group backs both octagon in the new car company so it's no wonder he understood the advantages of that product from st peters and google which is what you first of all the use of light to me. to come para consumption compared to traditional lamps and secondly no less important the extended lifespan basically burning as long as you can. the use of these is to simplify the cost of optics lowering costs by saving in hybrid season features. has company here as the world's leading luxury sports car makers had seen the light about the 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. technology is finding applications everywhere these days even

your own 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 octagons launching pad factory offices of the russian company. classmates and. industry. even deeper into their scientific work on semiconductor physics. international team to become one of the world's leaders in technology when they've set up the complete production cycle beginning here with molecular. and finishing with a range of packaged products. laser chips and fiber coupled laser modules for use in industrial medical 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. this. company. produces millions of chips for the medical. research to create a unique chip to be used in the industry of optical computer into connections. she's a different place now. submitted a project. with a proposal to set up production facilities. chips using l. . something unique. to take knowledge evolution is referring to is called quantum dots. where his company is among the global elite quantum dots or confined semiconductor crystals

with unique electronic optical properties first discovered in the one nine hundred eighty s. by physicists. quantum dots are great advantages in laser applications. for more amplitude and. relative noise these properties. on the bases of a company's latest invention will be able to make a chip that will transmit many channels through a single file. more than one hundred gigabits. it will help replace the. cables that you see everywhere today was just a few. energy consumption several dozen times and the maintenance costs many hundred times so if you know. 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 fearing wave lakes and to that effect each plane is flying it. 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 being set up every year around the world. expect.

technology. and possibly. innovative. from the. project. over the next decade. it might just be born right here in.

these. groups. and. and this has to be done in russia immediately otherwise we would never you know cross the bridge between science and manufacturing would be because between science and avoiding one of our troops there is a huge gap and there is a prototype development and scientist i myself i'm a scientist they very often say don't understand how huge is this get.

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