even for me kevin zero in here in moscow tonight on the top stories about poland reluctantly admits it's responsibility for last year's plane crash in smolensk repeal the nation's president but the report released on friday still tries to shift some blame for russia. spain's credit rating faces a possible downgrade as the greek debt continues to fuel its eurozone stablemates instability comes as germany refuses to sign blank checks on athens jump on.

rival parties in the u.s. continue to wrestle over the debt deadlock is the choose the deadline looms meantime washington's biggest lender china is rapidly losing his patience. another top story from us tonight thousands camping out in israel in protest against poor living conditions there some are already drawing comparisons with the tally uprising that saw egypt's leader. sign thirty one pm time next than for half an hour in the company of artie's technology update shining tonight some light on the science that affects you. 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 can 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 it. doesn't need my sleazy sales pitch high tech brainchild of a trio of russian scientist was born abroad and is now returned to russia to cover have been on a shiny new factory at the el skirts 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 to manufacture and throughput is the highest or inodes of business today in russia countries and in eastern europe we can produce today said community. two months. it's equal.

we'll cover three hundred. illegal his latest in a long line russians alexander what begin and made some of the first strides in constructing the incandescent lamps in the eighty's seventy's using carbon filaments renowned american inventor thomas edison introduced improved filaments and extended relatively short life of electric bulbs first to forty then to over one thousand hours by the early twentieth century and 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. were pioneered 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 the

lighting 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 turf 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 of the basis of the light emitting diodes that have been produced did. in fact there's one st petersburg academy at the root of all of this the physical technical institute it's been a world class center for fundamental physics in cutting edge technology since the days of its founder. not only did she in the faculty of the leningrad would soon.

there is named train the ranks of the soviet union's top nuclear scientists they also began work on semiconductors that underpins virtually all modern electronics. it was one of the institute's bright stars in the field of semiconductor physics and a forefather of today's elite d.'s. semiconductor along to meeting diets were developed as early as nine hundred twenty. russian scientists. experimented with silicon called by. the end of the night in the sixty's we saw the appearance of d.s. based on a three d. find semiconductor hitter instructions that was in late one thousand sixty's and early one nine hundred seventy s. is acknowledging implemented 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 our operating here. on top managers might seem an abuse of

legislation will grow phenolics a coach for all of you out of students in the same mid ninety's graduate class and walled off electronics department your fee institute 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 the nineteen nineties our economy faces a dramatic oaky 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 could not have maintained our scientific potential without international collaboration. two guns founders were part of a global generation of innovative entrepreneurs seeking the elusive start of 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 bloc german city of dortmund with the russian innovators eventually founder incubate 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 endured more a city at the heart of the once mighty male logical complex and europe's largest economy these pictures are from the final days of phoenix 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 in georgia was darkening. the people suffered from the crisis a lot of working places. they had to take

a decision to do for the future what you do next what comes off the street. and decided to focus on high technology. that was the decision in and the result of this decision you can see here so. which is one of the. by the way. i think startup companies. would soon sign is an impressive new facility a far cry from the dreary dortmund of years past the doors opened in april two thousand and five. factories set up as a competent center for micro and nanotechnology startups with offices laboratory and clean room infrastructure for small companies trying to take technology from ideas to products if the city combines funding from the city state and european union now hosting around twenty companies with over one hundred employees.

including many from russia so where do you see your own advice or. is it in the essence of eight years of experience already did with russian friends russian i decided seems to go the route in technology and that needs to have access to global markets openness leave their city get in between and the moment this russian night it teams find the perfect infrastructure in order to do the conversion of the technology into prudence where is the money to make their reality come from well basically it needs investors right but you know to get them this infrastructure and enable the 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 a 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 tough quality off the

electronic technology to the market. up to gun originally was founded by. two my friends and classmates from university and myself and later on very smart he joined us and he helped to move the gun here could or come up with a solution is to sell them aid the company made in creation was here. and through this time developed the main principles and basically lucchino the final product we created that we could do we are between ten top companies on the level of performance so what exactly was it that opera guy needed to get there l e d business off the ground insured equipment light emitting diodes don't grow on trees they grow in every taxi or reactors are able to rent top quality equipment at affordable rates and the m.s.t. factory in jordan and the after gun team had 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 model crystal and sapphire wafer in a process known as epigenetics you'll grow 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. ships are now ready to be placed inside the casement connected with gold wire the context 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 energy efficiency. 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 they will like and much faster than others they realize the potential of the company and they simply want it now main expertise and knowing. and that is inside police and protection lives we found a way that we can grow material with the least gifts like cations and defects to human worldliness meaning that we can build chips was a more cost efficient technology delivering the same level of performance we are in a transition phase from pilot going to factory who have here germany too high one of the natural evolution today in russia octagon is now busy calibrating their for judging lines in st petersburg the perfectly recreate the recipe de mille 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.e.d.s. offer for an equivalent amount of light octagon projects its. last see if ells 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. els and usefully ten times less like tricity then old school bulbs mercury pollution is a potentially serious problem with energy saving you see it fails. ovoid that toxic threat elegies completely. environmentally safe in russia from let's hear from. the band four hundred watt incandescent bulbs like other people as well you're a california but in russia there is no such high penetration of the so we see that in terms of the market size. directly placement of incandescent bulbs. it's bigger

compared to europe so that's why in this sense we expect russian market to grow even faster and with receiver growth of the market for third stage lighting in russia from seventy to one hundred percent a year and we expect this tendency to continue top 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 megawatts the opening of a major production plant that will produce the ladies and hopefully lights too will be a boost for some pages the initially we intend to use l.e.d.s. to eliminate the city's gardens and pocks there's also an ambitious new miscible 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 case sites beyond their hometown octagon is branching 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 in much of the region is expensive and heavy subsidize they also need new technology built to withstand their long brutal winter . 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 when we came to this market and became vertically integrated we just brushed as a very cold country and nobody in the fresh air of the standard that you need minus sixty degree acquired what i needed throwing as he should use of the devices so we know. special electronics cost effective for the client.

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 mine a sixty degree they extremely expensive so it's not like a. look at what. i have for the. new poem finance. case. quite the it's. just zine 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 the 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 and. today it's still quite high from two to five

six years. but in four years. it means that for. french population we're 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 bought 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 bulk 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 his design squad is constantly coming up with new ways to merge high tech function with the fashionable for their blueprints or behind a futuristic prototype octagon screw in l e d. y. was the mean challenge that you guys had to overcome in making these lines

obviously edited knowledge is quite advanced now but it's still got some issues to solve the biggest one ease the problem of couldn't don't because it's pretty used to lot of heat so we have to design a very good. read into 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 as the 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 they're apes they're they just late because a new wave in up and go in and we create the same the same similar stuff here and help to extend their capacity and space around and. to make that cooling process more effect 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 nadya's 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'll have another design view folks a little different look so what then is the future of this kind of design look like you mentioned. itself get in small and small and for example they can technology which is called slight engine and physically it's a very very tiny ensley bean element and they implement them there but you know the common you could trade any shape whatever you want really looking for but some of the designs may seem a bit frivolous it first glance but we're talking about a far more flexible lighting future where we can. to 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 ellie discreet multiplying the devices possibilities another reader for l.e.d.s. allocation is in an 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 a new car company so it's no wonder he understood the advantages of that product from st peters and literatures first of all the use of lights in the zinc diets helps us to cut past consumption competitor additional labs and secondly no less important the extended lifespan basically running as long as you can. the use of l e d's allowed us to simplify the calls optics 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 seen the light about to leave the 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 the technology is finding applications everywhere these days even letting you light up 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 m.s.t. 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 at the taxi and. 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 factory and 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. that's actually that will

make chips using. which will be something unique for russia. to take knology lucius is referring to is called quantum dot lasers and arena where his company is among the global elite quantum dots for confined semiconductor nanocrystals with unique electronic and optical properties first discovered in the one nine hundred eighty s. by russian physicist i see a few more quantum dots for great advantages in laser applications other semiconductor heteros structures like quantum wells are harder to control for lasers quantum dot lasers required less current for more amplitude and has tested them at extremely low relative noise these properties have long been theorized now their benefits are on the verge of realisation. on the basis of a company's latest invention will be able to make a chip that will transmit many channels through its. move on one hundred gigabits

per second. it will help replace the both evo inches of cables that you see everywhere today just a few fibers also we can coast energy consumption by several dozen times in the maintenance costs by many hundred times so if. you think of it this way all the data coming out of your computer gets on a highway to dave 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 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 info heavy perm 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 two percent of electric energy production in the united states that's a huge number so she expects to revolutionize the optical interconnects industry in the near future with research and development and production sites in germany the united states and russia. so obviously the right conditions for a top russian are to electronics technologies to develop have been set up in door to 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 in misty factory is built on a model that's worked in high tech development in production clusters all over the world from the famous silicon valley to taiwan in southeast asia so when. well the time come to build up this kind of center in russia the resoundingly answer from

moscow right now 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 in seoul then enjoy the right. i hope that school concept is going to cover these. to take scientific groups with a deer's to give them kind of incubate preconditions well i could give it to mr factory what we discussed with you when we were there and set up a small manufacturing in order to develop your alpha samples or your prototype and get custom traction and this part has to be done in russia immediately otherwise we would never you know cross the bridge between science and manufacturing it be because between science and high volume infection there is a huge gap there is

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