a shiny new factory at the outskirts 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 affection through point is the highest or you know do business today in russia in china's countries and in eastern europe we can produce today thirty million. a month. it's. l.e.d.s. good latest in a long line russians big and powerful 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 extended to relatively short life of 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

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. ce