this is a coming to life the most critical of headlines that one of the. thousands of turns out across a zero demanding the resignation of prime minister binyamin netanyahu in protests which some observers say the demonstrations which have swept the our world these yet. another plant over would be viewed as debt default frails as the republican controlled house of representatives rejects a bill for cars proposed by the democrats ponce buckaroo hundred continues to try

to reach a deal for tuesday's deadline with president obama urging congress to come to an agreement. under stress veterans have gathered for the annual march in a stadium but it's once again caused outrage among activists who say turning a blind eye of such meetings can lead to more tragedies similar to what happened in the way. and up next how much of dayton looking at an injury conservation on the nation's developments in the high tech world for 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 cash gets burned 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 i have been coming russian company is just open a huge new production facility to help make that energy efficient dream a reality. 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 cut ribbon on a shiny new factory at the l. streets 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. is the highest order in the business today in russia countries and in eastern europe we can produce today some community. months. it's.

the latest in a long line russians big and powerful made some of the first strides in constructing the incandescent lamps in the hundred seventy s. using carbon filaments renowned american inventor thomas edison introduced improved filaments and extended relatively short life electric bulbs first to forty then to over one thousand hours early twentieth century the tungsten filament light bulbs still in use today were already emerging fluorescent lamps appeared in the thirties 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 l.e.d. the light of the future. it was that bright future that brought out the big shots

the op a gun factory opening governor of st petersburg clearly understood the positive impact of having the company on her 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. 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 has. produced it. in fact there's one st petersburg academy at the root of all of this 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 he and the faculty of. tech that would soon. there is named train the ranks of the soviet union's top nuclear scientists they also begin work on semiconductors that underpins virtually all modern electronics.

it was one of the institute's bright stars in the fueled of semiconductor physics and a forefather of to detail e.d.s. . conduct along to meeting diets were developed in twenty. russian scientists. experimented with silicon called by. the end of the night and sixty's we saw the appearance of d.s. they still made three d. find semiconductor hitcher 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 operating here. to go on top managers not seem the flood is slow growth and. we're all of you out of students in the same mid ninety's graduate

class and while the op electronics department your 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 faced a dramatic up evil due to disastrous reforms 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 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. not just in the collapsing socialist bloc german city of dortmund where the russian innovators eventually founder incubate was no exception. the world is full of rusting old

industrial space fallen by the wayside in the constant shift 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 of 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 phoenix 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 georgia was dark and a. lot. of people suffered from the crisis a lot of working places. they had to take a decision to do for the future what to do next what comes off the street. and

decided to focus on high technology and it's not that was the decision and and the result of this decision you can see here so. which is one of the. technologies sent 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 with doors opened in april two thousand and five and 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 it's just 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 what you see your own advice is basically the essence of eight years of experience already did with russian friends and i decided. you

were in technology and that needs to have access to global markets openness neither is yet in between and the moment this rushed night 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 enables the high tech startup team to make a predictable conversion you have a clear timeframe over to the three years in order to convert technology to products and prepare to company in order to approach global markets and that's exactly the kind of preparation alex 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 electronic technology to the market. up to don a region that was founded by. two my friends and classmates from university and

myself and. he joined us and he helped to move on here. and it is shield to solve an aide the company from a new creation was here and through this time developed the main principles and basically came to the final product we created it and we didn't include a 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 read top quality equipment at affordable rates and the m.s.t. factory in jordan after gun team had said about generating a top quality sample may diminish trackage investment to set up a full scale production here's how it's done. production starts with a thin model crystalline sapphire wafer in a process known as epitaphs. placed inside

a special chamber and weaver 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 a 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 contacts and covered with a foster layer to convert blue to white light negative than positive charge currents meet in the active player of the diode releasing photons in the form of visible light. technology energy efficiency and wealth like really. recovering the innovation technology and look to russia and we've talked to several groups of friends several financial groups and on action group michael proctor of

they will like much faster than others they realize the potential of the company and they simply want it now main expertise and main core vote. and yeah inside both of these and protection lives we found a way that we can grow material with the least this occasions 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 iowa going to factory who have here in germany to a high volume and in fact trying to establish an today in russia octagon is now busy calibrating their production lines in st petersburg it perfectly recreate the recipe they mailed 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 its. last see if l's nearly ten fold in 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. zx l.e.d.s. ovoid that toxic threat elegies completely and environmentally safe in russia from let's hear from general first we have a ban four hundred watt incandescent bulbs like other people as well you are a police force 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 ali g. it's bigger compared to europe and 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 the stage lighting in russia from seventy to one hundred percent a year and we expect the standards it took and she talked to gun doesn't have to look too far for customers is the city of st petersburg is undergoing an l.e.d. overhaul. just not knowing how companies 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 good luck you know initially we intend to use illy days 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 cox 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 octagon 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 have you guys done to make 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 and became vertically integrated. we just understood russia as a very cold country and know where. there is a standard if you need minus sixty degree or why one. should use of the devices so we know. did develop 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 luminaries about their extremely expensive so it's not. that what we have to make those. solar cells quite a lot it's totally new to us just zein is definitely a big part of the heavily competitive game since other companies outside of russia have already been on the market for years off the gun 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. period today it's still quite high from two to five six years. but in four years.

and it means that. for 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 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 bolt design before i'm sold on switching over to. the fortunately the creative minds that bit of 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. the. was the mean challenge that you guys had to overcome in making these times obviously energy technology is quite advanced now but it's still got some issues to solve the biggest one ease the problem of couldn't own because it produced the laws

of heat so we have to design a very good. radiant. is that what this thing is free of 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 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 there they just late because you were going up and go in and we created the same the same similar stuff here and help to extend their capacity and space around and. to make that call 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 little ball and you don't get late 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'll have another design goof ups a really different look so what then is the future of this kind of design look like there are you mentioned deeds self getting smaller and smaller and for example they came a bit closer which is called slight engine and physically it's a very very tiny ensley been adamant and then plymouth and that but not you know the common the you could trade any shape whatever you want really looking for 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 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 arena for l.e.d.s. allocation is in an automobile lighting and a you'll 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 into a new car company so it's no wonder he understood the advantages of that product from st peter's square which is the first of all the use of light and. helps us to come past consumption competitor additional labs and secondly no less important place standard life span basically running as long as you can. also the use of l e d's just to simplify because optics lowering costs by saving in high precision features. to move the zero has company here as the world's leading luxury sports car makers has seen the light about l.e.d.

lamps in recent years as well as the bang for the buck gets better if 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 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 often says of the russian companies. while their classmates and former colleagues find their niche in the well known l.e.d. industry in a human being 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 epa txi 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 it seem of a chung research just from the physical technical university where we worked in the laboratory of the nobel laureates to wrestle fear of go to unique opportunity to set up a private company here in germany where 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 the through make chips using you know what. we should be something unique for russia which you . know to take knowledge evolution says referring to is called quantum dot

lasers and arena where his company is among the global elite quantum dots or confined semiconductor nano crystals with mique 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 required 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 than one hundred gigabits per second. it will help replace the bulky bunches of cables that you see everywhere just

a few fibers. concussed energy consumption several dozen times and 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 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 at bottom on 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 the data processing industry took

up two percent of electrical energy production in the united states that's a huge number so she expects to revolutionize the optical interconnect 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 artillery tronics technologies to develop have been set up in door to 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 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 ride. i think that school concept is going to cover this park to take scientific groups i did hers to give them kind of in kuwait the conditions well i could get it and i missed a factory or to discuss with you when we were there and set up a small manufacturing and all that to develop your sample 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 because between science and avoid a manufacturing there is a huge gap there is a prototype development and scientists i myself am

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