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a blind eye to such meetings today to more trash day is similar to what happened way. to go much had dates and i can get an injury conservation on the nation's developments in the high tech world. 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 companies 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 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 and go green at the same time. the capacity. is the highest in the business today in russia countries and in eastern europe we can produce to do. it's the. 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 bulbs 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. 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 dignitaries and investors from. a good state high tech corporation is happy to throw its weight behind. the.

cademy at the root of all of this. for fundamental physics and cutting edge technology since the days of its founder. would soon be. trained the ranks of the soviet union top nuclear scientists they also begin work on semiconductors that underpins virtually all modern electronics. was one of the institutes in the field of semiconductor physics and of today.

to me to develop. twenty. nine hundred sixty is. based on a three semiconductor. that was in the late one nine hundred sixty s. . these facilities 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. top managers. of 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 reform by the government i mean they were carried out in a callous way and. found itself in a difficult situation we could not have survived maintained scientific potential international collaboration. 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. just in the collapsing socialist. german city of dortmund where the russian innovators eventually found her incubator 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 in a city of the once mighty male 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 that along with other heavy industry installations. flooded the city's well established working class long before the mill was shuttered for good in one thousand nine hundred eight the economic outlook and. the people from the crisis. they had to take a decision to do for the future. technology . was a decision and the result of this decision you can see here so.

by the way is. an impressive new facility a far cry from the dreary dortmund of years past the doors opened in april two thousand and five. factories set up as a competent center for micro and nanotechnology startups with laboratory clean room infrastructure for small companies trying to take technology from ideas to products the facility 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 here on the court is basically the essence of eight years of experience all rick perry did with russian friends russian i do. you know the root in technology that needs to have access to global markets openness leaders 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 give 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 adopt a gun we're looking for when they came to dortmund and to help them take top quality off the electronic technology into the market. originally was founded by. two my friends and classmates from the university and myself and. he joined us and he helped to move here to. the company made. and through this time developed the main principles and basically team.

loop created the elegant today we have between ten companies on the level of performance so what exactly was it that opera guy needed to get their business off the ground ensure equipment. diodes don't grow on trees to grow in every taxi all reactors are able to rent top quality equipment in affordable rates and the m.s.t. factory in the after gun team would set about generating a top quality sample 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 crystalline 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 the 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. to talk about nano technology while the energy efficiency. recovering the innovation technologies. and we've talked to several groups several financial groups and on the group. much faster they realize the potential of the company bought it now main expertise . and insight at least. we found

a way that we can grow material with least disliked defects. even. meaning that we can build chips with a more cost efficient technology delivering the same level of performance we are in a transition phase for a pilot. who have. busy calibrating their production lines in st petersburg to perfectly recreate the recipe day nailed down and it's a tedious process even on the prototype scale and now the expectations are. 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 go on 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. . avoid that toxic threat. completely. environmentally safe in russia. and four hundred. other people. but in russia there is no such hype. so we see that in terms of the market size. it's bigger to europe to. expect russian market to grow. and we see the growth of the market for. a hundred percent a year and we expect it to continue. doesn't have to look. as the city of st

petersburg is undergoing an l.e.d. overhaul. 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. of the major production plant that will produce and hopefully lights to. initially we intend to use to eliminate the city's gardens and. 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 raise in the city as well as the embankments and. beyond their hometown octagon is branching out to the far away russian republic of straddling the arctic circle in northern siberia energy efficiency is more than

a slogan there since producing electricity in 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. cold country. sixty degree. 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 my. degree .

quite a. big competitive game since other companies. already been on the market for years to show the ability to meet customer specific demand. ever lower costs. for. consumer. even if you think.

you might. driving down the cost of chip production somebody needs to tackle the issue of design. creative minds that studios are already on the case. is constantly coming up with new ways to merge. with the fashion. behind the futuristic prototype. screw in a. while. was the main challenge that you guys had to overcome in making these lamps obviously did acknowledge is quite advanced now but they still go to some issues to solve the biggest one ease the problem of couldn't don't because these produce a lot of heat so we have to design the very good. radiant is that what this thing is right 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 got inspired by nature because if you look at some of the it stuff like mushrooms for example that apes there they just like goes a new wave in up and go and own scent and we created the same the same similar stuff here and help to extend the 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 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 up to one year we'll have another design

a different look so what then is the future of this kind of designing a look like you mentioned deed silva get in small and small and for example they came up to closure which is called slight engine and physically it's a very very tiny ensley been adamant and they implemented that but you know the common day you could wait any shape whatever you want really looking forward to some of the designs may seem a bit frivolous it first glimpse but we're talking about a far more flexible lighting future where we can. to traditional shapes in the name of variety. to just about anything and replace old school single function buttons with tiny. multiplying the devices possibilities. and the. russian billionaire. is literally hoping to reinvent the wheel.

sometime in two thousand and twelve. with all the latest gadgets for the irving to . group. in the new car company so it's no wonder he understood the advantages of that product from st peter's middle which is the first of all to me. and secondly no less important. basically. is to simplify. features. has company here as the world's leading luxury sports car makers head seen the light about. recent years as well as the bang for the buck 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 livingroom but it's just the tip of the iceberg.

there are more innovations on the way from the same. scientists. from. offices of the. industry in an even deeper scientific work on semiconductor physics they've assembled an international team to become one of the world's leaders in laser technology. to complete production cycle beginning here with molecular. and. finishing with a range of packaged products. laser chips and fiber laser modules for use. in 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. company other applications produces millions of chips for the medical. research to create a unique chip to be used in the industry of optical computer interconnections. she's a different place now. submitted a project. with a proposal to set up production facilities. chips using. something unique. to take. his company's among the global elite quantum dots or confine semiconductor crystals with unique electronic optical 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. company's latest invention. make a chip that will transmit many channels through its. one hundred gigabits. you see everywhere today just a few. 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 data. to the same highway sending information on the same fiber using several different. and each plane is flying it. and you see what kind of breakthrough we're talking about . redefining the computer. one hundred. two thousand and six. that's a huge number so expect. technologies

to develop. to competitive firms with cutting edge projects. and possibly. successful innovative business abroad and bring them home. over the world from the famous silicon valley to taiwan and southeast asia. 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 and raised right here in till then

enjoy the ride. that. he's going to cover. to take scientific groups. to give them kind of conditions like it and i missed a factory which we discussed with you when we were there and set up a small manufacturing in order to develop. 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 would be because between science and. there is a huge gap there is a prototype development and scientist i myself i'm a scientist very often say don't understand how much is this go up.

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