welcome kevin i see h.q. tonight with our top stories for you and thousands of turned out across israel the resignation of prime minister benjamin netanyahu in protest which some observers say mirror the demonstrations and spread the arab world this year. another plan to avoid a u.s. debt default fails as the republican controlled house of representatives rejects the bill for cuts proposed by the democrats frantic continues to try to reach a deal before tuesday's deadline is president obama urging congress to come to an

agreement. s.s. veterans have gathered for their annual march in the stony evidence once again caused outrage to be so you say turning a blind eye to such meetings can lead to more countries similar to what. it's exactly midnight thirty one moscow time in the one thirty one moscow time let me correct myself next technology update looks at the energy conservation of the latest developments in the height. and what she sees. 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. doesn't need my sleazy sales pitch to the high tech brainchild of a trio of russian scientist was born abroad and is now returned to russia to cut britain on a shiny new factory at the outskirts of st petersburg aside from being a happy homecoming 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 highest business today in russia countries and in eastern europe we can produce today thirty million. a month. it's.

levy is the latest in a long line russians big and powerful made some of the first strides in constructing the incandescent lamps neat hundred seventy s. using carbon filaments renowned american inventor thomas edison introduced improved filaments that extended relatively short life 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 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 made the scene in the ninety's with improvements in technology since then showing incredible flexibility and efficiency quite possibly making the lighting of the future. that bright future that brought out the big shots the

octagon factory opening the governor of say fears very clearly understood the positive impact of having the company on her and she was joined by talk 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. the contribution he won the nobel prize in the field of hatred structures which is. being produced to live. 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 of. not only did he in the faculty of villainy grad would soon . there is name train the ranks of disobedience top nuclear scientists they also

begin work on semiconductors that underpins virtually all modern electronics judie is so few 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 long to meeting diets we developed. in twenty years russian scientists are gloss of experimenting with silicon called by. the end of the nine hundred sixty s. we saw the appearance of the d.s. based on a three d. five semiconductor hitter instructions that was in late one nine hundred sixty s. and early one nine hundred seventy s. this acknowledging implemented these facilities is the next generation know how to develop 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 auto racing here. to go on top managers maxime beautifully but islam

will grow phenolics a coach for all of you out of students in the same mid ninety's graduate class and while the op electronics department in your view 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 nine hundred ninety s. our economy faced a dramatic up evil due to disastrous or implemented 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 did not have to go lived could not have maintained our 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 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 plan operated by the steel johnny 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 and eight the economic outlook was dark and. suffered from the crisis a lot of working places have. they had to take

a decision here to do for the future to do next what comes off the street money and decided to focus on high technology. that was a decision in eighty's and the result of this decision you can see it here so. which is one of the. by the way as. companies. would since signed is an impressive new facility a far cry from the dreary george mind of years past doors opened in april two thousand and five and this is the factory is 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 simply 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 rough night gets out of steam so you go the route in technology and that needs to have access to global markets well just me there is a gap in between indulgence this rush night it seems find the perfect infrastructure in order to do the conversion of the technology into crowds where is the money to make their reality come from well basically it's 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 the company in order to approach global markets that's exactly the kind of preparation. and his classmates turned business partners in opp to god were looking for when they came to dortmund into baiter to help them take top quality off the electronic technology to the market. opened on

a region that was founded by. my friends and classmates from university and myself and played on burke meyer who joined us and he helped to move here could or couldn't police us that is. the company. was here in darkness and through this time to develop the main principles and basically team to the final product we've created that and we can today we have between ten total companies clones a little of performance so what exactly was it that opera guy needed to get their 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 in affordable rates and the m.s.t. factory in jordan after a gun team would set about generating a 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 epitaphs your growth 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 illegal s. so a laser edging process cards out the individual chips contacts are then affixed to each one the tiny l.e.d. ships 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 than positive charge currents meet in the active layer of the diode releasing photons in the form of visible light. technology energy efficiency. we're covering the innovation technologies and we look to russia and we talked to

several groups of finance several financial groups and an action group from michael crawford they will lead to a much faster than others they realize the potential of the company and they simply bought it now mean expertise and marine corps. and inside at least the protection lives we found the way that we can grow material with the least dislocations and defects to even lead us 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 i live in a factory who have here in germany to a high of one of the natural evolution today in russia octagon is now busy calibrating their for judging lines in st petersburg perfectly recreate the recipe day nailed down in georgia 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 elegies 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. zz and usefully ten times less like tricity then old school bulbs mercury pollution is a potentially serious problem with energy saving c.f.l. . ovoid that toxic threat. completely. environmental safety in russia from let's hear from general frost we have a ban four hundred watt incandescent bulbs like other people as well you're 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. it's a bigger complaint to europe today so that's why in this sense we expect russian

market to grow even faster and we think we see the growth of the market for thirty straight letting in russia from seven to two 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. just one power 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 day it's currently power consumption total several major was the opening of a major production plant that will produce the ladies and hopefully lights too will be a boost to some pages good luck you know because you're initially we intend to use early days to eliminate the city's gardens and pocks 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 pox we'll

extend the replacement program to residential districts and then move on to revamp the lighting for major transport entrees 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 when i see northern siberia energy efficiency is more than a slogan they're producing electricity in much of the region it is expensive and heavily subsidized they also need new technology built to withstand their long brutal winter. what have you guys done to make l.e.d.s. they'll work in temperature conditions like we have a lot of parts of russia it was one of the chatter just makes me mad because when we came to this market that integrated we just understood russia as a very cold country and nobody in russia there is a standard that you need minus sixty degree acquiring for a bit of throwing as you usually do i think so you know. it developed a lot of 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 minus sixty degree in a minute is about they extremely expensive so it's not like a commodity product on the market what we have to make those high end products more come with it's a new company owns. the chin on often sold and sold quite a lot 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 to 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 it will be like. one here.

and it means a true. population for now that kind of mass 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 octagon 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. fortunately the creative minds in hard limit of studios are already on the case moscow's hip is design squad is constantly coming up with new ways to merge high tech function with a fashionable for their blueprints a behind the futuristic prototype begun screw in l e d. y. it was the mean challenge that you guys had to overcome in making the science obviously edited knowledge is great and once known but it's still got some issues

to solve the biggest one ease the problem of could and on because it produce lot of heat so we have to design a very good. radiant. is that what this thing is really here yeah it's like. 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've got inspired by nature because if you look at some of the stuff like mushrooms for example there are there they just late because of the way i've been up and go in and we create the same the same similar stuff here and the book help us to extend their capacity and space around and. to make that cool and 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 the folks who live different look so what then is the future of this kind of design to look like you mentioned at the deed self getting smaller and smaller and for example they came a bit miffed because you're which is called slide engine and physically it's a very very tiny ensley clean and they implemented in that but not you know the common you could wait any shape whatever you want really looking for but some of the designs may seem a bit frivolous a first glimpse but we're talking about a far more flexible light in 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 devices possibilities another reader for l.e.d.s. allocation is in an automobile lighting and a your mobile hybrid by russian billionaire of 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 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 light to meeting tell its help system come para consumption or competitor additional labs and secondly no less important than a standard lifespan basically running as long as your car runs through it also has the use of l e d's allowed us to simplify because 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 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 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 at m.s.g. factory i don't often says of the russian companies you know while their classmates and former colleagues find their mission the well known l.e.d. industry into humans diving 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 a 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 care in communications technology. and in two thousand and three it seem of eight young researchers 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 the wrist on a corporation. we've submitted a project to roost with a proposal to set up production facilities back home. i think through that will make chips using our technology which will be something unique for russia.

to take knowledge evolution says referring to is called quantum dot lasers in a region 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 amplitude and has tested them extremely low relative noise these properties have long been theorized their benefits are on the verge of realized 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 per second. it will help replace the bulky bunches of cables that

you see everywhere today just a few fibers also we can coast energy consumption by several dozen times and the maintenance costs by many hundred times so we. 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 add to that the fact that each plane is flying an autobahn speed and you see what kind of breakthrough we're talking about multiply that by the scale of data info heavy perm like 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 the data processing industry to help two percent of electrical 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 and germany the united states and russia. so obviously the right conditions for tough russian oculus tronics 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 built successful innovative business abroad and now want to bring them home what's the magic formula to misty factory is built on a model that's worked in high tech development in production costs 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 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. i hope that school concept is going to cover these. to take scientific groups with a dieter's to give them kind of include greater conditions like we got and i missed the factory which we discussed with you when we were there and set up a small manufacturing in order to develop your sample or your presence 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 because between science and avoiding an infection there is a huge gap there is

a prototype development and just i myself am a scientist they very often they don't understand how huge piece this together. download the official on t.m.p. cation choke on phone oh i pod touch from the choose ups to. see life on the go. video on demand parties money comes an r.s.s. feeds now in the palm of your. question on the quality jobs come.