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saps to. life on the. video. keys mind comes and says feeds now in the palm of your. question on the. 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 cascades 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 has just open

a huge new production facility to help make that energy efficient dream a reality. begun doesn't need my sleazy sales pitch the high tech brainchild of a trio of russian scientist was born abroad and is now returned to russia to cover it in on a shiny new factory at the outskirts 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 to go green at the same time. the capacity and affection. is the highest or business today in russia as countries and in eastern europe we can produce today through community. it's equal to. cover three hundred seventy five thousand square meters l.e.d. is the latest in a long line of russians alexander ludwig and. made some of the first strides in

constructing the incandescent lamps in the eight hundred seventy s. using carbon filaments renowned american inventor thomas edison introduced improved filaments that extended relatively short life of electric bulbs first to forty then to over one thousand hours by the early twentieth century the tungsten filament light bulbs still in use today were already emerging fluorescent lamps appeared in the thirty's college and lamps at the end of the one nine hundred fifty s. and high pressure sodium street lighting in the sixty's compact fluorescents or c.f.l. some were pioneers in the seventy's and are still a popular option as we move towards energy efficiency gallium nitride light emitting diodes may be seen in the ninety's with improvements in technology since then showing incredible flexibility and efficiency quite possibly making l.e.d. the light of the future. it was that great future that brought out the big shots the octagon factory opening governor of st petersburg clearly understood the positive impact of having the company on her 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. this is one hundred percent russian technology from the ground up on the fundamental level we can thank for his scientific contribution he won the nobel prize for his research in the field of hatred structures which is the basis of the light emitting diodes that are being produced here. in fact there is one st petersburg academy 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 of. not only did he in the faculty of delivering grad it would soon. there is name 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 institute's bright stars in the field of semiconductor physics and a forefather of today's daily d.s.

. semiconductor launch the meeting diets were developed. in twenty. russian scientists. experimented with silicon called. the end of the nine hundred sixty s. we saw the appearance of the d.s. based on a three d. find semiconductor hit restrictions that was in late one nine hundred sixty s. and early one nine hundred seventy s. is acknowledging implemented these facilities is the next generation know how to develop 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 equipments are operating here. to go on top managers maxime the flood is slow growth and alex a coach we're all off you're of students in the same mid ninety's graduate class and while the op electronics department in situ 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 a nine hundred ninety s. our economy faced a dramatic up evil due to disastrous reforms implemented by the government i mean they 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 all scientific potential with international collaboration. to guns founders were part of a global generation 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. not just in the collapsing socialist bloc the west german city of dortmund where the russian innovators eventually found their incubator was no exception. the world is full of rusting old industrial space fallen 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 in jordan a city at the heart of the once mighty mill logical complex in europe's largest economy these pictures are from the final days of felix west a massive plan operated by the steel johnny crew of it along with other heavy industry installations was the lifeblood of the city's well established working class long before the mill was shuttered for good in one thousand nine hundred eight the economic outlook was darkening. and. the people suffered from the crisis a lot of places have. they had to take a decision here what to do for the future what to do next what comes off the street money and decided to focus on high technology twenty x. x. that was a decision in eighty's and the result of this decision you can see it here so.

which is one of the design of the rooftop of technology center by the way. companies. would since side is an impressive new facility a far cry from the dreary dortmund of years past with doors opened in april two thousand and five and this is the factory is set up as a competent center for micro and nanotechnology startups with offices laboratory clean room infrastructure for small companies trying to take technology from ideas to products if you silly combines funding from the city state and european union now hosting around twenty companies with over one hundred employees. including many from russia so really what you see here a little white board is basically the essence of eight years of experience all rick perry did with the russian friends rough night it's out of steam so you go the route in technology and it needs to have access to global markets opus leaders say

yep in between indulgence this rush night it teams find the perfect infrastructure in order to do the conversion of their technology into products where is the money to make a reality come from well basically it needs investors right but you know to give them this infrastructure in a high tech startup team to make a predictable conversion you have a clear timeframe of two three years in order to call good 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 into baiter to help them take top quality off to electronic technology to the market. up the gun originally was founded by. two my friends and classmates from university and myself and later on bear fire he joined us and he helped to move up to grand here to the police and it is she'll

casals in the company made of creation was he in gorton and through this time to develop the main principles and basically we came to the final product we created that elegant and today we have between ten coal companies on the level of performance so what exactly was it that opera guy 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 read top quality equipment in affordable rates and the m.s.t. factory in jordan the octagon team that said about generating that top quality sample it made them an attractive investment to set up a full scale production here's how it's done. l.e.d. production starts with a thin mana crystal means sapphire wafer in a process known as epitaph. 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 or benefits to each one of the 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 than positive charge currents meet in the active layer of diode releasing photons in the form of visible light. technology energy efficiency and. recovering the innovation technologies and look to russia and we talked to several groups of friends several financial groups and group michael crocker of they were like much faster than others they realize the potential of the company and they simply bought it now my main expertise the marine corps. and even inside

these a potential lives we found a way that we can grow material least dislocations 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 a pilot when a factory who have here in germany. trying. to gun is now busy calibrating their for judging lines in st petersburg to perfectly recreate the recipe day nailed down in dortmund it's a tedious process even on the prototype scale and now the expectations are far higher comes out of these machines is going not to showcase for potential investors but to meet the lighting needs of clients so if all goes to plan what advantages can their elegies offer for an equivalent amount of light octagon projects its.

last c.f. l's nearly ten fold in incandescents by fifty times meanwhile the l.e.d.s. will cut in half the energy usage of most c.f. els and usefully ten times less like tricity then old school bulbs mercury pollution is a potentially serious problem with energy saving c.f.l. l.e.d.s. avoid that toxic threat. completely. environmentally safe in russia from let's hear from general frost we have a band four hundred watt incandescent bulbs like other people as well. but in russia there is no such high penetration of the chief so we see that in terms of the market size. direct replacement of incandescent bulbs too early it's a bigger company to europe to so that's why this is that we expect russian market to grow even faster and we think we see the growth of the market for in russia from seven to two hundred percent a year and we expect this tendency to continue. to go and doesn't have to look too

far for customers is the city of st petersburg is undergoing an l.e.d. overhaul. our company is in charge of maintaining some one hundred ninety thousand lighting elements around the city that's a huge market for the new. currently power consumption total several megawatts the opening of a major production plant that will produce and hopefully lights to will be a boost to simply does good luck initially we intend to use l.e.d.s. to eliminate the city's gardens and pocks there's also an ambitious 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 parks we'll extend the replacement program to residential districts and then move on to revamp the lighting for major transport arteries in the city as well as the embankments and other key sites beyond their hometown octagon is bridging out to the far away

russian republic of straddling the arctic circle when i see 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 at least they'll work in temperature conditions like we had a lot of parts of russia it was one of the chatter just makes me mad it was about to came to this market but integrated. understood russia is a very cold country and nobody in russia there is a standard that you need minus sixty degree acquired with throwing its issues or your devices sold you know. it developed a lot of special electronics cost effective for deploying. 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 sixty degree in a minute is about they extremely expensive so it's not like

a commodity product in the market what we have to make those high end products more commodity new combinations. quite a lot it's totally new to us just zine is definitely a big part of the heavily competitive believed he gave since other companies outside of russia had already been on the market for years octagon has to show the ability to meet customer specific demands to temperature standards and it's all about better lighting solutions ever lower costs definitely it's like more economical light you pay less after you put your lamp when you get your period today it's still quite high from two to five six years. but in four years look like. it and it means that a tube accessible for white population for now that kind of mass scale consumer

base is a bit beyond our grasp even if you think this land or street in industrial lighting would be great for your garage you might balk when you saw the three hundred dollars price tag octagon 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 moscow's hippest design squad 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 l e d. y. it was the mean challenge that you guys had to overcome in making these lines obviously energy technology is quite advanced but it's still got some issues to solve the biggest one is the problem of couldn't own because it produces lot of heat so we have to design a very good. radiant. is that what this thing is for 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 as 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 there they just late because of you brave enough and go in and we create the same the same similar stuff here and that will help us to extend their 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 media 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 after one year we will have another design beefed up salute different look so what then is the future of this kind of designing a look like mentioned. getting smaller and smaller and for example they can technology which is called slide engine and physically it's a very very tiny ensley pin elements and they implemented that but not you know the common you could create any shape whatever you want really looking for 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. gets traditional shapes in the name of variety and a bit of color to just about anything and replace old school single function buttons with tiny l.e.d. screens multiplying the devices possibility. of another. nation is in the automobile lighting and they will be a hybrid by russian billionaire this month is literally hoping to reinvent the

wheel set for 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 nixon who 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 because first of all the use of lights in the. house is to come past consumption or compassion traditional lamps and secondly no less important they standard life span basically running as long as you can. also the use of l e d's allowed us to simplify because optics lowering costs by saving in high precision features. to move the zero has company here as the world's leading luxury sports car makers has seen the light about l.e.d. lamps in recent years as well as the bang for the buck gets better if 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 a living room but it's just the tip of the op electronics 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 to the factory i don't offices of the russian companies you know well their classmates and former colleagues find their niche in the well known l.e.d. 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 endured when they've set up a complete production cycle beginning here with molecular beam every taxi in. finishing with a range of packaged products their output includes wafers laser chips and fiber coupled laser modules for use in industrial medical and communications technology. and in two thousand and three it seem of a chung research is from the physical technical university where we worked in the

laboratory of the nobel laureates to wrestle fear of go to a unique opportunity to set up a private company here in germany we managed to secure significant funds from investors and set up this semiconductor effect three now we are a successful company which among other applications produces millions of chips for the medical sector chips that help save human lives but also our enterprises some ongoing research to create a unique chip to be used in the industry of optical computer interconnections. certainly russia is a different place now with the establishment of the wrist on a corporation. submitted a project to roost with a proposal to set up production facilities back home to a factory that will make chips using our technology we should be something unique for russia. the technology lou should says referring to is called quantum dot laser it's in a region where his company is among the global elite quantum dots are confined

semiconductor you know crystals with unique electronic an optical properties first discovered in the one nine hundred eighty s. by russian physicist i see quantum dots for great advantages in laser applications other semiconductor heteros structures like quantum wells are harder to control for lasers quantum dot lasers require less current for more input and has tested them extremely low relative noise these properties have long been theorized their benefits are on the verge of realized they should. know when the in on the bases of a company's latest invention will be able to make a chip that will transmit many channels through its. move in one hundred gigabits. it will help replace the dulcie 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. think of it this way all the data

coming out of your computer gets on a highway to davy options are basically either building a new road here another cable or waiting in traffic with the other data. home laser proposes adding lanes to the same highway sending information on the same pipe or using several different non-interfering wavelengths add to that the fact that each plane is flying it on speed and you see what kind of breakthrough we're talking about multiply that by the scale of data info heavy thermite 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 took up two percent of electrical energy production in the united states that's a huge number so expect to revolutionize the industry in the near future with

research and development and production sites and germany states and russia. so obviously the right conditions for a top russian are to electronics technologies to develop have been set up in. two competitive firms with cutting edge projects are already out on the market and possibly more on the way they build successful innovative business abroad and now want to bring them home what's the magic formula factory is built on a model that's worked in high tech development and production costs all over the world from the famous silicon valley to taiwan in southeast asia so we're. the time comes 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 until then enjoy the right. i hope that school conflict is going to cover these pork to take scientific groups with a dieter's to give them kind of include greater conditions like we gathered in a mist factory what we discussed with you when we were there and set up a small manufacturing and a little developing all for something where you prototype and get custom corrections and this part has to be done in russia immediately otherwise we would never you know cross the bridge between science and manufacturing it because between science and have only one effect true there is a huge gap there is a prototype development and scientists i myself am scientist very often they don't understand how huge piece this together.

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