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been seeing from the streets and canada. trying to call for a show to rule the day. 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. gun 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 cover it in on a shiny new factory at the outskirts of st petersburg aside from being a happy homecoming to 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 throughput is the highest inodes of business today in russia in china's countries and in eastern europe we can produce today's thirty minute. month. it's. as easy. as we'll cover three hundred square meters illegally is good latest in a long line russians alexander began 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 lamps appeared in mid 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 made the scene 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 op the gun factory opening governor of st petersburg clearly understood the positive impact of having the company on her and she was joined by talk local 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 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 do you know few 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 delimit read it would soon. there is need to train the ranks of the soviet union stop 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 elite d.'s. semiconductor along to meeting

diets were developed as early as nine hundred twenty s. russian scientists. experimented with. the end of the nine hundred sixty s. we saw the appearance of d.s. based on a three d. film semiconductor hatred structures 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 equipments are operating here. up to done top managers mark seaman no blue the flood is slow growth and. we're all off you're of students in the same mid ninety's graduate class and while the auto 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. our economy facing a dramatic ok evil due to disastrous or. by the government i mean there 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 without international collaboration. to guns founders were part of a global generation of innovative entrepreneurs seeking elusive started conditions in an era of uncertainty in fact much of the developed world was suffering in 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 grounder into 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 middle logical complex and europe's largest economy these pictures are from the final days of felix west a massive plant 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 jordan was darkening. as. the people suffered from the crisis a lot of working places have. had to take a decision here what to do for the future what to do next what comes off the street cooking and money and decided to focus on high technology. that was the decision and the result of his decision you can see it here so. which is

one of the. by the way as. companies. would see inside is an impressive new facility a far cry from the dreary dortmund of years past the doors opened in april two thousand and five. the factory is 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 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 your own advice is basically the essence of eight years of experience the rivera did with the russian friends russia not it's not us it's you go the route in technology that needs to have access to global markets opus the there's a gap in between and don't want this rush magic teams find the perfect

infrastructure in order to do the conversion of the 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 most high tech startup team to make a predictable conversion you have a clear timeframe move to the three years in order to convert technology to products and prepare a company in order to polish 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 integrator to help them take top quality optoelectronics technology into the market. the gun originally was founded by. two my friends and classmates from university and myself and. my he joined us and he helped to move on here to go to these facilities. the company made interation with

ian durrant and through this time to develop the main principles and basically came to the final product loop created the elegant the today we have between ten top companies on the level of performance so what exactly was a bit top gun needed to get there l e d business off the ground insured equipment limiting diodes don't grow on trees they grow in every taxi or reactors are able to read top quality equipment in affordable rates and the m.s.t. factory in jordan the octagon team would set 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. production starts with a thin model 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 are then affixed to each one of the tiny l.e.d. chips are now ready to be placed inside the casement connected with gold wire contacts and covered with a foster layer to convert blue to white light and negative in 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 we look to russia and we talked to several groups of finance several financial groups and on that same group michael crocker of there will a much faster than others they realize the potential of the company and they simply bought it now means extra keith and marine corps. inside of these

protection lives we found the way that we can grow material with the least this fly cations and defects compared to even world leaders 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 pilotless actuary who have here in germany to a high of one of those had trying to establish an today 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 there l.e.d.s. offer for an equivalent amount of light octagon projects it's. last c.f.l. is 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. well l.e.d.s. avoid that toxic threat elegies completely and environmentally safe in russia from next year from virginia referrals to have a plan four hundred watt incandescent bulbs like other people do 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. direct replacement of incandescent bulbs. it's bigger compared to europe and so that's why in this sense we expect russian market to grow even faster than we think we see the growth of the market for in russia from seventy to 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 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 l.a. deane's and hopefully lights two will be a boost for some pages the documentary initially we intend to use these to eliminate the city's gardens and cox 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 pox 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 case sites beyond their hometown opposite dawn is breaking out to the faraway 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 winters. what do you guys. still work in temperature conditions like we have a lot of parts of russia it was one of the chatter just makes me mad because a very painful this market an integrated we just this is a very cold country and nobody in russia there is a standard that you need minus sixty degree acquirement for throwing us we should use your devices sold in our. it developed a lot of special electronics. 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 you have to make those. new combinations.

quite a lot 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 get your period today it's still quite high from two to five six years. but in four years look. like means that the. population for now that kind of mass scale consumer base is a bit beyond our grasp even if you think this lay of the street in industrial

lighting would be great for your garage you might balk when you saw the three hundred dollars price tag so well up a gun 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 are going to have studios are already on the case my scales his design squad is constantly coming up with new ways to merge hi tech function with the 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 the slams obviously energy technology sweat and fun but it's still got some issues to solve the biggest one is the problem of couldn't don't because it's pretty use a lot of heat so we have to design a very good. read into 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 as the 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 great stuff like mushrooms for example there they just late because a new wave in up and we go in and we create the same the same similar stuff here and this book helped 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. lightings 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 designing a look like there are you mentioned they're. getting smaller and smaller and for example they came a bit new to technology which is called slide engine and physically it's a very very tiny ensley been adamant and they implemented in there but not you know the common and you could trade 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. the traditional shapes in the name a variety of bit of color to just about anything and replace old school single function buttons with tiny l.e.d. streets multiplying the devices possibilities 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 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 google which is the first of all the use of lights in easing diets. para consumption to additional apps and secondly no less important they standard lifespan basically running as long as you can. also the use of l.e.d.s. is to simplify because optics lowering costs by saving one hundred season features . movie all has company here as the world's leading luxury sports car makers head seen the light about l.e.d. lamps in recent years as well as the banks of the bud 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 up your own living

room but it's just the tip of the op electronics iceberg back in the dormant incubate are there more innovations on the way from the same team of st petersburg site just upstairs from octagons launching pad m.s.t. factory i don't offices of the russian companies you know while their classmates and former colleagues find their mission the well known l.e.d. industry and if you missed the idea 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 in jordan 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. in two thousand and three a team of eight young researches 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 factory 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 there is no corporation. we've 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 which should be something unique for russia. to take knology live should says referring to is called quantum dot lasers and arena 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 ileum has tested them at 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 boat key bunches of cables that you see everywhere today just a few fibers. we can cut energy consumption by several dozen times and the maintenance costs many hundred times so if. you 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 at autobahn speed and you see what kind of breakthrough we're talking about multiply that by the scale of data info heavy termite 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. two percent of electric 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 sites in germany in states

and russia. so obviously the right conditions for a top russian opulent tronics 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 want to bring them home what's the magic formula m.s.t. 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 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 in raised right here in still then

enjoy the right to. that school confident he's going to cover these pork to take thank you for groups with a deer's to give them kind of in kuwait or conditions like we got it in a mist factory which we discussed with you when we were there and set up a small manufacturing and develop yourself a sample of your prototype and get custom corrections 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 scientist i myself am a scientist very often they don't understand how huge is this gap.

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