ily. pretty thing for me kevin i mean here in moscow tonight it out c h q these are our top stories for you another planned result of the u.s. debt crisis is falling apart in the senate i will choose days headline closing the legislators look like us to avoid default. also had learning from us s s better in some gathered for the annual march of the stone you know just once again causing outrage among activists who say turning a blind eye to such meetings can lead to more tragedies similar to what happened in

norway. and israel is bracing itself for the biggest protest rally seen there in years the anti-government demonstrations in the country are drawing comparisons with the arab spring uprising. there the news unfolding now from our next though is technology update time exploring the scientific breakthroughs that bring the future closer to home. feel. 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. not to go and 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 to believe the assembly line launches a big step in russia's attempts to modernize its economy to go green at the same time. the capacity in effect. is the kindest business to be in russia countries and eastern europe we can produce today through community. it's the equal to. three hundred seventy five s. l. e g.'s 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 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. 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 and quite possibly making l.e.d. 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 church and she was joined by talk to 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 god 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 the 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 dealing grad fizzed tech that would soon. there is need to train the ranks of the soviet union's top nuclear scientists they also begin work on semiconductors that underpins virtually all modern electronics and was one of the institute bright stars in the field of

semiconductor physics and a forefather of today's elite d's. semiconductor along to meeting joe it's we developed. in twenty years russian scientists. experimented with silicon called by. the end of the night and sixty's we saw the appearance of more 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. it was 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. to go on top managers maxime and the beautiful growth and i would say coach were all of your students in the same mid ninety's graduate class and while the op electronics department go for instance you gave

them the best of conditions 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 or full by the government i mean the way carried out in a callous way as a result russian signs found itself in a difficult situation we could not have survived also maintained all 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 in economic identity crisis in the late twentieth century. 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 mill logical complex and europe's largest economy these pictures are from the final days of felix west a massive plan operated by the steel giant cruel it along with other heavy industry interlacing 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 dortmund was darkening. as. the people suffered from the crisis a lot of working places have. they had to take a decision what to do for the future what to do next what comes off the street. and decided to focus on high technology. that was the decision and the result of this

decision you can see here so. which is one of the. technology center by the way is also home of. companies. inside. the woods inside is an impressive new facility a far cry from the dreary dortmund of years past with doors opened 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 by word is basically the essence of eight years of experience all rick perry did with russian friends and i just thought of. you on the route in technology that needs to have access to

global markets obesity there is a gap in between and don't want this rush my 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 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 aleksey called and his classmates turned business partners and off to gone were looking for when they came to dortmund and to help them take top quality optoelectronics technology into the market. a region that was founded by. two my friends and classmates from university and myself and later on dirk meyer who

joined us and he helped to move on here to document to place the salacious shield casals in aid the company made interracial was here and through this time to develop the main principles and basically came to the final call the loop created the elephant and today 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 ensure equipment limiting diodes don't grow on trees big growing every taxi all reactors able to read top quality equipment in affordable rates and the m.s.t. factory in jordan 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. production starts with a thin mana crystalline sapphire wafer in a process known as epitaphs you'll grow placed inside a special chamber the wafer is bombarded with various gases to form

a multi layered structure and 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 community jewel 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 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 and. recovering the innovation technologies and. and we've talked to several groups of friends several financial groups and on the group michael crocker of they

were much faster than others they realize the potential of the company and they simply bought it now main and main core. and inside these protection lives we found a way that we can grow material with the least this like a chanst 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 a pilot. who have tea in germany. trunk evolution today in russia octagon is now busy calibrating their production lines in st petersburg to perfectly recreate the recipe day meal 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 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. environmentally safe in russia from next year from junior first we have a plan for one hundred watt incandescent bulbs like other people because well they were a california but in russia there is no such high penetration of those so we see that in terms of the market size. direct replacement of incandescent bulbs to its bigger company to europe today so that's why in this sense we expect russian market to grow real fast and we think now we see the growth of the market for thirty straight

like in russia from seven to two hundred percent a year and we expect this tendency 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 l a d c i'm currently power consumption total several megawatts the opening of a major production plant that will produce a ladies 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. 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 object dawn is breaking 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 haul 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 was one of the chatter just makes me mad it was very painful this market but in the great if we just understood that russia is a very cold country and nobody in russia there is a standard that you need minus sixty degree a quad one for throwing it's a sure use of your devices so you know. it developed a lot of special it through and it's cost effective. 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. x. three make spaces so it's not like a. look at what we have to make those high end products. quite the way it's. just sign 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. after you get your period today it's still quite high from two to five six years. but in four years. like. company like and it means that. for now that kind of mass scale consumer

base is a bit beyond our grasp even if you think this lamp for street and industrial lighting would be great for your garage you might balk when you saw the three hundred dollars price tag. begun 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 are glad to have 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 or behind a futuristic prototype octagon screw in l e d. y. was the mean challenge that you guys had to overcome in making the slimes obviously energy technologies question first 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 lot of heat so

we have to design a very good. read into that is that what this thing is really here yeah it's late in. the theme we just came out for the market maybe three years ago and it's just a 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 of the stuff like mushrooms for example very they're they just late because of the way of in up and go in and we create the same the same similar stuff here and it 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 design to look like they're you mentioned they're. getting smaller and smaller and for example they can of technology which is called slide engine and physically it's a very very tiny ensley been adamant and they implemented that but not you know the common you could wait 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. ditch 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 possibilities another arena for nation is in the

automobile lighting and they will be a hybrid by russian billionaire of 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 nixon group backs both octagon in the new car company so it's no wonder he understood the advantages of that product from st peter's square which is when you first of all the use of lights amazing diodes help system come para consumption compared to additional lamps and secondly no less importance they stand in lifespan basically burning as long as you can. also the use of l e d's this to simplify because optics lowering costs by saving one hundred season features mean you can. do movie zero has company here as the world's leading luxury sports car makers head seen the light about l e v lance 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 up your own living room but it's just the tip of the op electronics iceberg back in a dorm an incubator there are more innovations on the way from the same team of st petersburg scientists upstairs from octagons launching pad to 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 in the humans die 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 epa 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 care and communications technology. 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 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 establishment of the corporation. just submitted a project to roost with a proposal to set up production facilities back. to the factory that will make chips using our technology we 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 in optical properties first discovered in the one nine hundred eighty s. by russian physicist i.c. chemo 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 input and has tested them extremely low relative noise these properties have long been theorized their benefits are on the verge and 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 file. on one hundred gigabits. it will help replace the both keep bunches of cables that you see everywhere today with 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 the 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 pipe or using several different non-interfering wave links add to that the fact that each plane is flying in autobahn speed and you see what kind of breakthrough we're talking about multiply that by the scale of data 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 to help 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 in germany the united states and russia. so obviously the right conditions for a top russian optoelectronics 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 and production cost 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 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 still then enjoy the right. i hope that confidence is going to cover this book to take thank you for groups. to give them kind of conditions like going to mr factory or to discuss with you when we were there and set up a small manufacturing and develop. a 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 because between science and truth there is a huge gap there is a prototype development and i just i myself am a scientist they very often they don't understand how huge this gap.

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