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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 is 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 britain 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 of an infection through point is the highest or inode to business today in russian and chinese countries and in eastern europe we can

produce to the same community. a month. it's equal to. three hundred seventy five thousand square meters l.e.d. is good latest in a long line russians alexander ludwig and. made some of the first strides in constructing the incandescent lamps in the eighteenth seventies 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 and lamps appeared in the thirty's 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. 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. that bright future that brought out the big shots the octagon factory opening the governor of same peers very clearly understood the positive impact of having the company on her church 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. 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 of the basis of the light emitting diode said have been produced here. in fact there is one st petersburg academy at the root of all of this the physical technical institute its been a world class center for fundamental physics in cutting edge technology since the days of its founder of. not only did he in the faculty of the living 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 like the meeting diets were developed in twenty piny by russian scientists. experimented with. the end of the nine hundred sixty s. we saw the appearance of more d.s. based on a three d. film semiconductor hitter restrictions that was in late one nine hundred sixty s. and early one nine hundred seventy s. this acknowledging implemented of these facilities is the next generation know how developed by my 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 equipment operating here. to go on top managers maxime the flood is slow growth and i would say coach for all of you out of students in the same mid ninety's graduate class and while the op electronics department go for instance you gave them the best account nations they were completing their studies at a time of difficult transition for the russian scientific community. at the beginning of the nine hundred ninety s. our economy faced a dramatic up evil due to disastrous reforms implemented by the governments out 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 can also be maintained on scientific potential without 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 her incubator was no exception. the world is full of rusting old industrial space fallen by the wayside in a constant shift 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 mail logical complex in europe's largest economy these pictures are from the final days of felix west a massive plan operated by the steel giant crude that 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.

from the crisis a lot of working places have. they had to take a decision here what to do for the future what to do next what comes off the street . 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 here so. which is one of the. by the way is. companies. inside. woods inside is an impressive new facility a far cry from the dreary dortmunder of years past with doors open in april two thousand and five. factories set up as a competent center for micro and nano technology startups with offices laboratory and 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 in the white world is basically the essence of eight years of experience all rick perry did with a dozen friends and i did stuff seems that you are the root in technology that needs to have access to global markets openness neither is say get into tween and don't want this rush magic teams find the perfect infrastructure in order to do the conversion of their technology into products where is the money to make their 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 of two the three years in order to convert technology can products and prepare a company in order to approach global markets that's exactly the kind of preparation aleksey called and his classmates turned business partners and off to gone were looking for when they came to dortmund and integrator to help them take

tough quality optoelectronics technology to the market. up the gun originally was founded by. two my friends and classmates from university and myself and later on my own he joined us and he helped to move on here to sell it is she'll consult an elite the company mainak aeration was here in gorton and through this time to develop the main principles and basically team to the final product we created the elegant and today we are between temple companies on the level of performance so what exactly was it that opera guy needed to get their business off the ground insured equipment blaming 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 after gun totin said about generating a tough call the sample that 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 crystalise 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 weaving layers of gallium nitride indium nitride and aluminum nitride on the way for surface each wafer will produce up to thousands of elite teams 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 encasement connected with gold wire the context and covered with a foster layer to convert blue to white light and negative in positive charge currents meet in the active player of the diode releasing photons in the form of visible light. not a technology rather the energy efficiency like really. recovering the innovation

technologies and look to russia and we talked to several groups of friends several financial groups and on the group michael. much faster than others they realize the potential of the company and they simply bought it now mean the marine corps. and ease inside these protection lives with phones the way that we can grow material with the least dislocations and defects to human. meaning that we can build chips with a more cost efficient technology delivering the same level of performance we are in a transition phase from either going to factory who have here in germany. trying to do in russia begun is now busy calibrating their production 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 l.g.'s offer for an equivalent amount of light octagon projects it's. fell's nearly ten fold and incandescents by fifty times meanwhile the l.e.d.s. will cut in half the energy usage of most c.f.l. zx 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 elegies completely. environmentally safe in russia from let's hear from. ban four hundred watt incandescent bulbs like other people because well you're a california but in russia there is no such high penetration of those so we see

that in terms of the markets us. direct replacement of incandescent bulbs. is bigger compared to europe today 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 the state like in russia from seven to two hundred percent a year and we expect the standards and to continue top to gun 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 eighty thousand lighting elements around the city that's a huge market for the new. currently power consumption total several major what's happening of the major production plants that will produce and hopefully lights to will be a boost for some pages the brick you initially we intend to use these to eliminate the city's gardens and cox there's also an ambitious new simple 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 branching out to the far away russian republic of straddling the arctic circle in icy 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 haul winters. what have you guys done to make l.e.d.s. still work in temperature conditions like we have a lot of parts of russia it was one of the chatter just makes me mad it was very painful this market that integrated he understood russia is a very cold country and nobody in russia there is a standard you need minus sixty degree acquirement for the shoes of your devices so

you know. and it's. 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. three make spaces so it's not like a commodity product on the market what we have to make those high end. and the. 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 temperature standards and it's all about better lighting solutions ever lower costs definitely it's like more economical light.

today it's still quite high from two to five six years. but in four years. and it means that. 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 up to gun works on driving down the cost of chip production somebody needs to tackle the issue of bold design before i'm sold on switching over to. the fortunately the creative minds that bit of studios are already on the case his design squad is constantly coming up with new ways to merge high tech function with a fashionable for their blueprints or behind a 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 technologies question first but it's still got some issues to solve the biggest one ease the problem of could and on because it's great use a lot of heat so we have to design a very good. radiant. is that what this thing is we're here yeah it's like. the theme we just came out for the market maybe three years ago and just the standard solution of 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 is there they just like because of the way in up and go in. the saying the same similar stuff here and this will help us to extend their 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 after one year we will have another design be folks who live different look so what then is the future of this kind of design will look like are you mentioned. getting smaller and smaller and for example they can technology which is called slide engine and physically it's a very very tiny and sleek and been adamant and they implemented that but not you know become an the you could create any shape whatever you want really looking for but some of the designs may seem a bit frivolous a first glance but we're talking about a far more flexible lighting future where we can. the 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.d. screens multiplying the device's possibility. of another arena for 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 next in group backs both octagon in the new car company so it's no wonder he understood the advantages of that product from st petersburg bill which is the first of all the use of lights amazing helps is to compact and some cheaper competitive dish no lamps and secondly no less important they standard lifespan basically burning as long as you can. also the use of l e d's is to simplify the

cars optics for lowering costs by saving in high precision features. to move the o. has company here as the world's leading luxury sports car makers head see the light about l.e.d. lamps in recent years as well as the bang for the buck gets better you can expect to encounter more l.e.d.s. on the road. as you can see l.e.d. technology is finding applications everywhere these days even your own 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 the factory i don't often says of the russian companies you know well their classmates and former colleagues find their niche in the well known l.e.d. industry in the humans die even deeper into their scientific work on semiconductor physics davis simple than international t.v. 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 laser chips and fiber coupled laser modules for use in industrial medical care and communications technology. in two thousand and three it seem of age young researchers from the physical technical university where we worked in the laboratory of the nobel laureates to wrestle for of gold 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 the submitted a project to roost with a proposal to set up production facilities back home. that's actually that will

make chips using our technology we should be something unique for russia. to take knowledge evolution 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 in 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 inputs and ileum has tested them extremely low relative noise these properties have long been theorized their benefits are on the verge of realize they should. on the basis of a company's latest invention will be able to make a chip that will transmit many channels through its. single fiber move and one

hundred gigabits. it will help replace the both keep bunches of cables that you see everywhere today just a few fibers. we can cause energy consumption by several dozen times the maintenance costs by many hundred times so. think of it this way all the data coming out of your computer gets on a highway today the 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 fiber using several different non-interfering wave links and to that the fact that each plane is flying in speed and you see what kind of breakthrough we're talking about multiply that by the scale of data in a firm like google facebook or amazon and you're redefining the world of cloud computing. 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 optical interconnects industry in the near future with research and development and production side in germany. so obviously the right conditions for a top russian are two electronics technologies to develop have been set up in. two competitive firms with cutting edge projects are already on the market and possibly more on the way they build successful innovative business abroad and now i want to bring them home the magic formula factory is built on a model that's work in high tech development and production cost over the world from the famous silicon valley to taiwan in southeast asia so we're. well the time

comes to build up this kind of center in russia the resoundingly answer from moscow right that's the 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. that school concept is going to cover these pork to take scientific groups with a dieter's to give them kind of conditions like we got it in a mist factory what we discussed was the one who was there and set up a small manufacturing and a little develop a simple prototype and get custom corrections and these 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 is a huge gap there is a prototype development and scientists i myself am a scientist they very often they don't understand how he's got. it. martin here broadcasting live from washington d.c.

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