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from the streets of canada. today. hello you're watching our review of the week with the top stories moscow falls victim to the of the weather has frozen rain leads to huge blackouts and travel chaos paralyzing the russian capital for several days. europe's growing increasingly wary of the spread of islamic extremism with the recent arrests a. major terror plot in denmark adding to the fears of. russia's most famous person in the gulf will retain this status for six more years

as the court finds the former tycoon guilty of massive oil embezzled. two years after israel's military offensive on gaza people there are still struggling to get their lives back to normal despite israel insisting it's easing economic book a. world wide for twenty eleven years the new year got off to an explosive start. and celebrations all around the globe. this eleven thirty one. look towards the future with the world's most promising gizmos and gadgets yes this one's technology update he's on the air. 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 caskets burn out 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 the high tech brainchild of a trio of russian scientists was born abroad and has now returned to russia to ribbon on a shiny new factory at the outskirts of st petersburg aside from being a happy homecoming this 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 business today in russia countries and in eastern europe we can produce today so to. go month. it's the.

russians. made some of the first strides in constructing the incandescent lamps in the seventy's. filaments. inventor thomas edison introduced improved extended relatively short life of electric bulbs. 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 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 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. state high tech. is happy to throw its weight behind. in fact. all of this. 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. were developed. twenty. experimented with. the end of the nine hundred sixty is the appearance of the d.s. based on a three. hundred sixty. 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 due to disaster. 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

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 europe's 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. working class long before the mill was shuttered for good in one thousand nine hundred eight the economic outlook and.

the 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. impressive new facility. passed the doors opened in april two thousand and five. for micro and nanotechnology. laboratory clean room infrastructure 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 all rick perry did with a dozen friends and i do. you know the route in technology that needs to have access to global markets obviously there is a gap in between and don't want this to teams 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 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 and up to gone were looking for when they came to dortmund and to help them take top quality

optoelectronics 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 to. the company. and through this time developed the main principles and basically came 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 guy needed to get their business off the ground ensure equipment light emitting 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 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 to each one of the 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've talked to several

groups several financial groups and. they realize the potential of the company bought it. and inside at least. we found a way that we can grow material with least disliked defects. even. meaning 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 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. for an equivalent amount of light up to go on projects it's. nearly ten fold and incandescence by fifty times meanwhile the l.e.d.s. will cut in half the energy usage of most c.f.l. and use fully ten times less electricity than old school bulbs 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 there is no such high penetration of the so we see that in terms of the market size. it's bigger

to europe to. 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. doesn't have to look. as this 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 case sites beyond their hometown octagon 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 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. 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. those . quite. heavily competitive. other companies. already been on the market for years. customer specific demands. ever lower costs.

and. even if you think. you might. driving down the cost of chips 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. behind the futuristic prototype. screw in. was the main challenge that you guys had to

overcome in making these plans 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. read into is that what this thing is read 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's 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 the books 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 get in small and small and for example they can demolish your which is called slide engine and physically it's a very very tiny and sleek and thin element 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 in devices possibility. and the. russian billionaire. is literally hoping to reinvent the wheel. sometime in two thousand and twelve. with all the latest gadgets for the. next in group both in the new car company so it's no wonder he understood the advantages of that product from st peter's little which is the first of the use of light to me. and secondly no less important the extended lifespan basically. to simplify the. precision features.

of the o. 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 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 upstairs from our. offices of the russian company. while their classmates and former. industry in an 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 packaged products includes laser chips and fiber laser modules for use.

in communications technology. team of researchers from the physical technical university where we worked in the laboratory of the. private company here in germany we managed to secure significant. 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. the technology live shots is referring to is called quantum dots. where his company is among the global elite quantum dots or confined semiconductor crystals with unique electronic. discovered in the one nine hundred eighty s. physicist. quantum dots are great advantages in laser applications. for more amplitude and. relative noise. company's latest invention.

one hundred gigabits. you see everywhere today just a few. several dozen times. many hundred times. think of the. data coming out of your computer. today the options are basically either building a new road. or waiting in traffic with the other data. to the same highway sending information on the same fiber using several different. wavelengths and each plane is flying in speed 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 so expect. future. development and production sites in germany. the right conditions for russian optoelectronics technologies to develop. to competitive firms with cutting edge projects on the market and possibly on the way they build successful innovative business abroad to bring them home. magic formula . work in high tech. over the world from the famous silicon valley to taiwan in southeast asia. time come to build up this kind of

center in russia the resoundingly answer from moscow right now that's see idea at the heart of the skolkovo project an international city of science and technology set to fan out 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 till then enjoy the ride. i hope that concept is going to cover these. to take scientific groups. to give them kind of in kuwait to conditions like could get it and i missed a factory what we discussed with you when we were there and set up a small manufacturing in order to develop you all for a sample or your prototype and get custom attraction 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

manufacturing there is a huge gap there is a prototype development and scientists i myself am a scientist they very often say don't understand how huge is the. wealthy british. market why not. find out what's really happening to the global economy with mike's cars or for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune in to conjure reports .