as. this is our team from moscow thanks for being with us so our top story tonight so you can see live pictures coming in from capitol hill here u.s. lawmakers currently voting on a crucial compromise to increase the debt ceiling there were reports earlier that agreement could be reached but experts fear this could be just another round of the political ping pong on capitol hill the deadline expires on tuesday and the country could face a potential default on its loans a wrong we heard both sides are very close to

a three trillion dollars deal after talks with vice president joe biden people there talking about a positive feeling some voting taken place but we'll bring you more on that one as we get the details throughout the next hour or two other stories from us in our review of the week's top news poll and admitted responsibility for the plane crash that killed president kaczynski last year for the published report still try to shift some of the blame to russia. for the two hundred fifty thousand one hundred government protesters applauded the streets and squares of israeli cities some hear an echo of the arab spring and a chance calling on prime minister netanyahu to step that. it's nine thirty one pm here in moscow up next for you our technology update this month looking at energy conservation and the latest developments in the world of high tech.

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 can get you a lot more light and waste way less wattage in the process and up and coming russian company has 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 of an infection is the highest or inodes of

business today in russia countries and in eastern europe we can produce producing community. two months. it's. a levy is the latest in a long line russians big and powerful made some of the first strides in constructing incandescent lamps in the eighteen seventy s using carbon filaments renowned american inventor thomas edison introduced improved filaments and extended relatively short life of electric bulbs first to forty then to over one thousand hours by the early twentieth century and 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. some were pioneers in the seventies and are still

a popular option as we move towards energy efficiency gallium nitride light emitting diodes made to seen in the ninety's with improvements in technology since then showing incredible flexibility and efficiency quite possibly making the light of the future. it was that bright future defraud 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. 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 have been produced it. 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 in cutting edge technology since the days of its founder of. not only did he in the faculty of the leningrad would soon . there is name train the ranks of the soviet union's top nuclear scientists they also begin work on semiconductors that underpins virtually all modern electronics. was one of the institute's bright stars in the fueled of semiconductor physics and a forefather of today's elite d.s. . semiconductor along to meeting diets were developed as early as nine hundred twenty. russian scientists. experimented with silicon called. 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 night in sixty's and early one nine hundred seventy s. is 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 equipment operating here. to go on top managers maxime an abuser flood is slow growth and how it's a coach we're all off you're of students in the same mid ninety's graduate class and while the op electronics department yorkie 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 ninety's our economy faces a dramatic up evil due to disastrous reforms implemented by the governments out i mean they were carried out in a callous way and as a result russian science found itself in a difficult situation we could not have survived maintained our scientific potential without international collaboration. to guns founders were part of

a global generation of innovative entrepreneurs seeking elusive start of 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 german city of dortmund with the russian innovators eventually found her 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. these challenges were particularly acute indorsement 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 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 was dark and it. suffered from the crisis a lot of working places have. had to take a decision here for the future to do next what comes off the street money and decided to focus on the 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. companies. would soon sign is an impressive new facility a far cry from the dreary dortmund of years past the 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 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 what you see your own advice is basically the essence of eight years of experience already did with russian friends russian market side of the. go the route in technology that needs to have access to global markets obviously there is a get in between in the moment this rush my teams find the perfect infrastructure in order to do the conversion of that 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 the company in order to approach global markets that's exactly the kind

of preparation. and his classmates turned business partners it up to god were looking for when they came to dortmund and beitar to help them take tough quality off electronic technology to the market. up to ghana region it was founded by. two my friends and classmates from university and myself and later on very smart he joined us and he helped to move here could work with a suspicious shield to sell them aid the company made a correction was he important and through this time developed the main principles and basically came to the final product we created that elegant the day we are between ten top companies on the level of performance so what exactly was a bit off the gun 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 rent top quality equipment at affordable rates and the m.s.t.

factory in jordan the octagon 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. production starts with a thin model crystal leans sapphire wafer in a process known as epitaph. placed inside a special chamber 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 of fixed each one of the tiny l.e.d. ships 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 than positive charge currents meet in the active player of the diode releasing photons in the form of

visible light. not acknowledge it energy efficiency. we're recovering the innovation technologies and we look to russia and we've talked to several groups of friends several financial groups and on the group i'm michael proctor of they were like much faster than others and they realize the potential of the company and they simply bought it now my expertise the main core. and inside of these the protection lives we found the way that we can grow material least this defects to even. mean in that we can build chips was a more cost efficient technology delivering the same level of performance we are in a transition phase from pilot minute factory who would have feared germany. had

shrunk great establishment today in russia to gun is now busy calibrating their production lines in st petersburg to 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 it 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. 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. l.e.d.s. ovoid that toxic threat elegy is completely. environmentally safe in russia from let's hear from general frost we have a band four hundred watt incandescent bulbs like other people as well. but in

russia there is no such high penetration of those so we see that in terms of the market size. directly placing incandescent bulbs too early it's bigger compared to europe so that's why this is that we expect russian market to grow even faster and we think we see the growth of the market for three straight like in russia from seventy to one hundred percent a year and we expect this tendency to continue. 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 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. of the major production plants that will produce and hopefully lights too will be a boost for some pages good luck you know initially we intend to use the ladies 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 entrees 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 straddle in 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 was one of the challenges mission madness was when we came to this market that integrated. this russia is

a very cold country and nobody in russia there is a standard that you need minus sixty degree acquiring for a throne as we should use of the devices sold in our. 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 but they extremely expensive so it's not like a commodity product in the market what we have today and those high end products more come with new combinations. of each and on and off and sold quite a while it's totally new to us just zine 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 you pay less after you put your lamp and you get your period today it's still quite high from two to five six years. but in four years look like. one here. means that a troop accessible for. copulation 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 or you might balk when you saw the three hundred dollars price tag so well octagon 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 hardly believe 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 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 these lines obviously edited knowledge is quite advanced now 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 the laws of heat so we have to design a very good. read into is that what this thing is for here it's like. the theme we just came out for the market maybe three years ago and as the standard solution 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 they're huge they're just late because of the way of an up and go in and we create the same the same similar stuff here and help to extend their

capacity and space around and. to make the cooling 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 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'll have another design with absolutely different look so what then is the future of this kind of designing to look like you mentioned deed cells getting smaller and smaller and for example they they can cause you which is called flight engine and physically it's a very very tiny ensley been adamant and then plymouth and that but not you know the common you could trade any shape otoh you want really looking for but some of

the designs may seem a bit frivolous to first glance but we're talking about a far more flexible lighting future where we can. to 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. screeds multiplying devices possibilities another reader for l.e.d.s. with haitian is in the automobile lighting and the you might 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 in the new car company so it's no wonder he understood the advantages of that product from st peter's little richard because first of all the use of lights in the. helps is to come past consumption or competitive dish no lamps and secondly no less important the extended lifespan basically running as

long as you can. the use of l e d's just to simplify because up to six 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 of 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 the 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 to misty factory i don't often says of the russian company you know well 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 in jordan they've set up a complete production cycle beginning here with molecular beam and protect c n. 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 is from the physical technical university where we worked in the laboratory of the nobel laureates to wrestle for of go the 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 and 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 corporation. just submitted a project to roost with a proposal to set up production facilities back. to the thankfully this will make chips using our technology which will be something unique for russia. to take knowledge evolution is referring to is called quantum dot lasers and arena where his company is among the global elite quantum dots are confined semiconductor nano crystals with collect trying to get 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 at 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. move in one hundred gigabits per second. it will help replace the both tivo inches of cables that you see everywhere today just a few fibers. concussed energy consumption by several dozen times in 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 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 lakes and to that the fact that each plane is flying at autobahn speed and you see what kind of breakthrough we're talking about multiply that by the scale of data in info heavy terms 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 two percent of electrical energy production in the united states that's a huge number so our company expects to revolutionize the optical interconnects industry in the near future with research and development and production sites in germany in states and russia. so obviously the right conditions for a top russian ocular trikes 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 and misty factory is built on

a model that's worked in high tech development and production clusters all over the world from the famous silicon valley to taiwan in southeast asia so we're. 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 until then enjoy the right. i hope that school concept is going to cover these pork to take scientific groups which i did hers to give them kind of in kuwait or conditions like could get it in the midst factory which we discussed with you when we were there and set up a small manufacturing and all that to develop something on the prototype and get custom traction and this part has to be done in russia immediately otherwise we

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