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a review of the week's top. admitted responsibility for the plane crash that killed president kaczynski last year but the published report still tries to shift some of the blame to russia. but up two hundred fifty thousand nine hundred government protesters applauded the streets and squares of israeli cities some hear an echo of the arab spring and the chants calling on prime minister netanyahu to step down. 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 in cash gets burned 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 fish brainchild of a trio of russian scientists. and has now returned to russia to be in 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. in russia. and in eastern europe we can produce today.

we'll cover. the long line russians. made some of the first strides in constructing the incandescent lamps in the seventy's using carbon filaments renowned american inventor thomas edison introduced improved filaments been extended to relatively short life of electric bulbs. then to over one thousand hours by the early twentieth century the tungsten filament light bulb still in use today were already emerging and lamps appeared in . at the end of the one nine hundred fifty s. and high pressure sodium street lighting in the sixty's compact florescent stores. 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

that brought out the big shots the octagon factory opening. clearly understood the positive impact of having the company on 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. in the field. in fact. cademy is all of this physical technical institute it's been a world class center for fundamental physics and cutting edge technology since the days of its founder. only did she in the faculty a dilemma. train the ranks of the soviet union's top nuclear scientists also

begin work on semiconductors that underpins virtually all modern electronics. was one of the institute's bright stars in the field of semiconductor physics and of today's elite d.'s. were developed. we saw the appearance of. semiconductors. yeah that was in the late one nine hundred sixty nine hundred seventy. is is the next generation know how developed 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 racing 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 evil due to disastrous or. by the government 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 scientific potential without international collaboration. founders were part of a global generation of innovative entrepreneurs seeking the 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 founder incubate 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 endured more of a city at the heart of the once mighty middle logical complex in europe's largest economy these pictures are from the final days of phoenix west a massive plant operator. that along with other heavy industry installations. 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. from the crisis. they had to take

a decision to do for the future. decided to focus on technology. not. the decision and the result of this decision you can see here so. by the way as. impressive new facility. passed the doors opened in april two thousand and five. factory. for micro in nanotechnology. laboratory clean room infrastructure for small companies trying to take technology from ideas to products. from the city state and european union now hosting around twenty companies with over one hundred employees including many from russia so

where do you see your. technology. markets obviously they. don't want this. perfect infrastructure in order to do the technology into where the money to come from basically needs investors but you know to get this infrastructure in a. team. to make a predictable conversion you have a timeframe of two the few 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 alex and his classmates turned business partners it up to god were looking for when they came to dortmund and to help them take top quality optoelectronics technology into the market. up the gun originally was founded by.

two my friends and classmates from university and myself and. meyer who joined us and he helped to move here to. this. company made in korea was here and through this time to develop the main principles and basically team. loop creatives that ellie didn't do today we have between ten total companies on the level of performance so what exactly was it that opera gun needed to get their business off the ground insured equipment light emitting diodes don't grow on trees they grow in every taxi all reactors able to rent top quality equipment at affordable rates and the m.s.t. factory in the octagon team could set about generating the top quality samples 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 multilayered 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 in. casement connected with the context and covered with the 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. recovering the innovation technologies. and we've talked to

several groups several financial groups and on the group. much faster than others they realize the potential of the company bought it now main expertise. and inside. we found a way that we can grow material with least dislike and 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 all. who have. trunk. is now 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 incandescents by fifty times meanwhile they 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 from next year from. four hundred. other people. but in russia there is no such high penetration of the so we see that in terms of the market size. it's bigger.

so. expect russian market to grow. and we see the growth of the market for. a hundred percent a year and. 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. 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 we'll extend the

replacement program to residential districts and then move on to revamp the lighting for major transport in the city as well as the embankments and. beyond their hometown is branching out to the far away russian republic of straddling the arctic circle in northern siberia energy efficiency is more than a slogan they're producing electricity and much of the region is expensive and heavily subsidized 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.

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. those . definitely 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.

kind of mass consumer base. 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. it was the main challenge that you guys had to overcome in making these plans obviously the technology is quite advanced now but

there's still goes some issues to solve the biggest one is the problem of couldn't don't use the loss of heat so we have to design the very good. read into 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 cause a new wave in up and go in and we create the same the same similar stuff here and help to extend capacity and space around and. to make that 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 beefed up sort of the different look so what then is the future of this kind of designing to look like you mentioned at a deed self get in small and small and for example they can demolish your which is called slide engine and physically it's a very very tiny and sleek and thin 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 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 single function buttons with tiny.

multiplying 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. next in group both in the new car company so it's no wonder he understood the advantages product from st peter's little which is the first of all to me. and secondly no less important. features. as company here as the world's leading luxury sports car makers has

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 which. as you can see. is finding applications everywhere these days even living room but it's just the tip of the iceberg. there are more innovations on the way from the same. scientists upstairs from. the factory offices of the russian company. their classmates and. industry. even deep into their 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

industrial 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 a significant. 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. different place now. the. project. was a proposal to set up production facilities. chips using. something

unique. quantum dots. where his company is among the global elite. confined semiconductor crystals with unique electronics. discovered in the one nine hundred eighty s. by physicists. quantum dots are great advantages in laser applications. for more amplitude and. relative noise. benefits. company's latest invention. one hundred gigabits. that you see everywhere today

just a few. several dozen times. many hundred times. think of the data coming out of your computer. today the options are basically either building a new road. or waiting in traffic. to the same highway sending information on the same fiber using several different. wavelengths and each plane is flying it. and you see what kind of breakthrough we're talking about. redefining the computer. one hundred. the world.

in two thousand and six. that's a huge number so expect. future. production . technologies to develop. to competitive firms with cutting edge projects. and possibly more on the way they build successful innovative business abroad and bring them home. over the world from the famous silicon valley to taiwan and southeast asia. 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 till then enjoy the ride. i hope that concept is going to cover these. to take scientific groups. to give them kind of in kuwait to conditions like could get it in a mist factory which we discussed with you when we were there and set up a small manufacturing in order 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 would be because between science and. there is a huge gap there is

a prototype development and scientists i myself am a scientist they very often say don't understand how huge is this gap. close a team was in the cool down region. from all over the world out a few centimeters to their self-confidence. this time r.t. goes to the onboard region. for the cold war still gets people like to. try to save its culture. where cranes are protected in the first official. push to close up.