russians. made some of the first strides in constructing the incandescent lamps in the seventy's. filaments. inventor thomas edison introduced improved extended relatively short life of electric bulbs. twentieth century the tungsten filament light bulb still in use today were already emerging. at the end of the one nine hundred fifty s. and high pressure sodium street lighting in the sixty's compact cars were pioneered in the seventy's and are still a popular option as we move towards energy efficiency. diodes may be seen in the ninety's with improvements in technology since then showing incredible flexibility and efficiency quite possibly making. the future. future

the big shots the octagon factory opening. clearly understood the positive impact of having the company on and she was joined by top level dignitaries and investors from beyond. that state. is happy to throw its weight behind. in fact. all of this. it's been a world class center for fundamental physics and cutting edge technology since the days of its founder. trained the ranks of the top nuclear scientists also big. and work on

semiconductors that underpins virtually all modern electronics. was one of the institutes in the field of semiconductor physics and. developed. twenty. of. the nine hundred sixty s. . d.s. based on a three. hundred sixty. is the next generation know how to develop students and what we see here demonstrates how fast changing both in scientific and technological terms and also in terms of the top rate equipment here.

students in the same mid ninety's graduate class and while the optoelectronics department gave them the best of foundations they were completing their studies at a time of difficult transition for the russian scientific community. at the beginning of. our economy facing a dramatic due to disastrous reforms. i mean there were carried out in a callous way. found itself in a difficult situation we could not have survived maintained scientific potential international collaboration. of innovative entrepreneurs seeking the elusive startup conditions in an era of uncertainty in fact much of the developed world was suffering an economic identity crisis in the late twentieth century not just in the collapsing socialist bloc german city of where the rush. innovators eventually found their incubator was no

exception. the world is full of rusting old industrial space by the wayside and the constant shifts of the global economy the challenge on everyone's minds is to rethink and rebuild these spaces to compete in the high tech twenty first century. challenges were particularly acute in a city. complex and largest economy these pictures are from the final days of phoenix west a massive plant operated by the steel. that along with other heavy industry installations. working class long before the mill was shuttered for good in one thousand nine hundred eight the economic. decision to do for the future.

there is. so. by the way a. new facility. passed. in april two thousand and five. for micro. clean room infrastructure companies trying to take technology. from the city state and european union now hosting around twenty companies with over one hundred employees including many from russia to meet with. this. the essence of eight years of experience all rick perry

did with russian friends russian i do. you have the root in technology that needs to have access to global markets openness neither get in between and don't want this to teams find the perfect infrastructure in order to do the conversion of that technology into products where is the money to make a reality come from well basically it needs investors right but you know to get them this infrastructure in a high tech start up to him to make a predictable conversion you have a timeframe of two the three years in order to convert technology to products and prepare the company in order to approach global markets that's exactly the kind of preparation. and his classmates turned business partners and up to gone were looking for when they came to dortmund and the incubator 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. meyer who joined us and he helped to move here to. this. company. and through developed the main principles and basically. loop creatives. today we have between ten companies one is a little of performance so what exactly was it that opera guy needed to get their business off the ground ensure the equipment diodes don't grow on trees they grow in every taxi or reactors are able to rent top quality equipment in affordable rates and the m.s.t. factory in. generating the top quality samples that made them an attractive investment to set up a full scale production here's how it's done production starts with a thin model crystal lean sapphire wafer and a process known as. placed inside

a special chamber the wafer is bombarded with various gases to form a multi-layered structure under specific pressure and temperature conditions the gases cause chemical reactions leaving layers of gallium nitride indium nitride and aluminum nitride on the way for surface each wafer will produce up to thousands of l.e.d.s. so a laser edging process cards out the individual chips contacts are then affixed to each one of the tiny l.e.d. chips are now ready to be placed inside the casement connected with gold wire the contacts and covered with a foster layer to convert blue to white light negative in positive charge currents meet in the active layer of the diode releasing photons in the form of visible light and. technology while that energy efficiency 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

crossroads they were like much faster than others they realize the potential of the company and they simply bought it now main expertise and wing. and inside of the protection lives we found a way that we can grow material was a least dislike cations and defects to even world leaders meaning that we can build chips was a more cost efficient technology delivering the same level of performance we are in a transition phase for all pilot minutes hectoring who have here in germany. trying to establish an today in russia begun is now busy calibrating their production lines in st petersburg to perfectly recreate the recipe they 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. to plan what advantages. for an equivalent amount of light up to god projects it's. nearly ten fold and by fifty times meanwhile the l.e.d.s. will cut in half the energy usage of most c.f.l. and use fully ten times less electricity than old school bulbs mercury pollution is a potentially serious problem with energy saving c.f.l. . toxic threat. completely. environmentally safe in russia. four hundred. people. but in russia there is no such high penetration. of the market size. bigger to europe to. expect russian market to grow. and we see the growth of the market for russia

from seventy to one hundred percent and we expect it to continue. doesn't have to look. as the city of st petersburg is undergoing an l.e.d. overhaul. company is in charge of maintaining some one hundred eighty thousand. the city that's a huge market for the new. production plant. to. initially we intend to use to eliminate the city's. construction in the pipeline with new streets to be designed and built in two thousand and twenty thirteen so after we've done the we'll extend the replacement program to residential do. and then move on to read. in the city as well

as the embankments and it's beyond their hometown op to go on 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 brutal winter. what if you. work in temperature conditions like we have a lot of parts of russia. but integrated we just. cold country. that you need minus sixty degree.

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 a degree. in the market what we have to make those. quite a. 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 like to temperature standards and it's all about better lighting solutions ever lower costs definitely it's like more economical light. today. from two to five six years.

one. of like means that for really popular. for now that kind of skill consumer base is a bit beyond our grasp even if you think this lame or street industrial lighting will be great for your garage you might balk when you saw the three hundred dollars price tag. to gun 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 bit of studios are already on the case my scales hip is designed squad is constantly coming up with new week to merge high tech functions with the fashionable for their blueprints a behind the futuristic prototype octagon screw in a light pole. what was the main challenge that you guys had to overcome in making these lamps obviously technology is quite advanced now but they still go to some issues to solve the biggest problem of couldn't don't use

a lot of heat so we have to design a very good. read into is that what this thing is for and here yeah it's like. the theme which just came out for the market three years ago and it's just a standard solution whether 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 that apes there just like cause a new wave in up and go in and we've created this saying the same similar stuff here and. extend the capacity and space and. 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. a

little ball and you don't get light maybe as much coming down this direction are you looking at ways to completely redo the lighting so that you don't have to have such a bulky radiator industry itself is very rapidly changing day by day i think maybe even up to one year we'll have another design a different look so what then is the future of this kind of designing to look like . small and small and for example they can close your which is called slide engine and physically it's a very very tiny. thing. and by implementing that. you know the common you could create any shape whatever you want. 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 ditch traditional shapes in the name of variety added bit of color to just about anything and replace old school single function buttons with tiny. multiplying you devices possibilities another

reader for cation is in the automobile lighting and the you will be a hybrid by russian billionaire this month is literally hoping to reinvent the wheel. full scale production sometime in two thousand and twelve cars are trimmed with all the latest gadgets for the urban commuter. nixon group 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 what you first of all the use of light to me. to compare consumption compared to traditional lamps and secondly no less important the extended lifespan basically burning as long as you can. the use of these just to simplify the calls optics lowering costs by saving in high precision features. you'll be all has company here as the world's leading luxury which. makers had seen the light about. 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 technology is finding applications everywhere these days even your own living room but it's just the tip of the iceberg. there are more innovations on the way from the same. scientists upstairs from octagons launching pad to. offices of the russian computer. while their classmates and former colleagues. industry. even deeper into their scientific work on semiconductor physics. international team to become one of the world's leaders in technology. set up to complete production cycle beginning here with molecular. and finishing with a range of packaged products including laser chips and fiber laser modules for use

in industrial medical and communications technology. research is from the physical technical university where we worked in the laboratory of the. private company here in germany we managed to secure significant funds from investors and this. company. produces millions of chips for the medical. research to create a unique chip to be used in the industry of optical computer into connections. to different places. submitted a project. with a proposal to set up production facilities by. chips using. something unique. the technology

is referring to is called quantum dots. where his company is among the global elite quantum dots or confined semiconductor crystals with unique electronic properties discovered in the one nine hundred eighty s. by physicists. quantum dots are great advantages in laser applications. for more amplitude and. relative noise these properties. on the bases of a company's latest invention will be able to make a chip that will transmit through a single. more than one hundred gigabits. it will help.

you see everywhere to do just a few. energy consumption several dozen times in the maintenance costs by many hundred times so. think of the. data coming out of your computer. today the options are basically either building a new road. or waiting in traffic with the other data. adding lanes to the same highway sending information on the same fiber using several different. wavelengths and each plane is flying it. and you see what kind of breakthrough we're talking about. redefining the world of cloud computing. one hundred. the world these are enormous factories for data processing.

in two thousand and six. expect. technology. to competitive firms with cutting edge projects. and possibly. innovative business abroad and bring them home. from the famous silicon valley to.

project an international city of. over the next decade in. the next technology update brings you a high tech success story it might just be born right here. he's going to cover these. groups. to give them kind of. what we discussed. and. and this part 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 avoid a manufacturing there is a huge gap there is a prototype development and scientist i myself am

a scientist they very often they don't understand how huge is this gap. up to. twenty years ago the largest country in the. suitcases of. what had been on. the beach began a journey. where did it take them. hungry for the full story we've got it first hand the biggest issues get

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