Plessey announced UK’s Regional Growth Fund (RGF) has officially granted £6.7 million (US $10.26 million) towards the expansion of the Plessey LED manufacturing facility in Plymouth, England. 

Plessey is retrofitting its manufacturing facility with LED modules designed using the company's GaN-on-Silicon MaGIC LEDs. The retrofit involves replacing aging fluorescent tubes and compact fluorescent bulbs in existing fixtures to use new LED light modules produced in the same facility in Plymouth, Devon, UK.

Plessey today announced the release of its range of MaGIC™ LED die, manufactured on the company’s patented GaN-on-Silicon technology. The blue die, sometimes referred to as blue pump for their ability to pump phosphor to a white colour range, are the latest innovation in high brightness LED die designed for a wide range of medium to high power applications including general lighting, signage, commercial, residential and street lighting.

Plessey today announced the launch of its range of LED filaments, manufactured with the company’s MaGICTM GaN-on-Silicon LEDs. The filaments are designed for the surging filament bulb market where these replacement lamps have far better performance, but still maintain the physical appearance of incandescent lamps.

Plessey announced today that its dotLED range, designed specifically for wearable applications, has been expanded with a wider selection of colours, including red, green and blue. The extremely small LED die have a footprint of only 0.2mm x 0.2mm, which makes them a perfect fit for low profile electronic wearable applications.

Plessey Semiconductors announced today that it will be leading a GBP1.3 million government funded project in conjunction with AIXTRON and Bruker Nano Surfaces Division. This project will accelerate high volume manufacturing of Plessey’s innovative LEDs created with GaN-on-Silicon technology at its Devon based manufacturing site.

Plessey Semiconductors announced that it has entered into a sales representative agreement with ROM Electronik, an electronics distributor and provider of advanced complete solutions headquartered close to Istanbul, to expand its European network with coverage in the Turkish market for its GaN-on-Silicon LED products.  

Plessey today announced its expansion into Chip Scale Packages and Wafer Level Packaging solutions leading to its Application Specific LED - the AS-LED™.  Recent performance improvements have elevated Plessey's award winning GaN-on-Silicon technology MaGIC™ LEDs to be competitive with any LED technology with improvements in key critical areas including lumens/watt, elevatingGaN-on-Silicon above existing LED technology.

Plessey today announced a further ambitious move to aligning its operations to its expanding Plymouth UK facility through the addition of an LED assembly line. The assembly line will enable Plessey to focus on its innovative high brightness LED growth plans based around its solid-state lighting and sensing business, taking new products from concept to production in less time whilst also functioning as an innovation center for the next generation of LED packages.

Plessey announced today that it has entered into a distribution agreement with Solid State Supplies Ltd., an electronics distributor and provider of advanced complete solutions headquartered in Redditch, UK, to expand its European network with coverage in the UK and Ireland market for its GaN-on-Si LED products.

Plessey announced it has entered into a distribution agreement with CODICO GmbH, a demand creation distributor for electronic components, headquartered in Perchtoldsdorf, Austria and with offices across Europe. With CODICO, Plessey will be expanding its European network with coverage in Central and East European, Italian and Danish market for its GaN-on-Si LED products.

Plessey announced the launch of its smallest packaged MaGICTM LED (Manufactured on GaN-on-Si I/C) aimed at the surging wearable electronics market. The PLW138003 is a white LED in a 1005 SMT package designed specifically for the demand for ever smaller LED components producing highly collimated light. Plessey’s dotLEDs weighing 0.2 milligrams and a profile of 0.2mm are an industry-leading option for any wearable application with LED content.

Plessey announced today availability of its next generation GaN-on-Silicon mid-power LEDs. The product family doubles the efficacy of Plessey’s first generation MAGIC™ (Manufactured on GaN-on-Si I/C) products released in February 2013. Using standard silicon semiconductor production techniques, Plessey is able to achieve high flux output LED products at substantially lower cost. The PLW114050 is the first in a family of entry level LED lighting products that will be released. 

Saelig Company is now distributing samples of Plessey Semiconductors' GaN-on-Silicon MAGIC PLW111010 PLCC-2 SMT white light LEDs. These LEDs are claimed to be the first commercially available solid state illuminators manufactured on 6” GaN-on-Silicon substrates. With production yields of greater than 95 percent and fast processing times, a significant cost advantage can be offered over sapphire and SiC-based LED solutions for a wide range of industry-standard solid-state illumination and indicator applications. Designed for ambient ...

Plessey is working closely with Plymouth City Council, to help achieve the Council's carbon reduction strategy for all their managed buildings and infrastructure. Plessey recently released the first commercially available 350mW GaN-on-silicon LEDs. The lighting products are manufactured on Plessey’s 6-inch MAGIC (Manufactured on GaN I/C) line. The GaN-on-silicon LEDs use a much thinner GaN layer at only 2.5μm, and they are cheaper than LEDs grown on sapphire or SiC. This latest solid-state LED lighting solution to be employed in Pl...

Plessey Semiconductors Ltd says that samples of 350mW GaN-on-Si LEDs are now available. The entry-level lighting products are manufactured on Plessey’s 6-inch MAGIC (Manufactured on GaN I/C) line at its Plymouth, England facility. The new LEDs are targeted at a variety of solid-state lighting and entertainment-type lighting products including accent lighting, wall washing, wall grazing, strip-lighting and pulse lighting applications. “The MAGIC LED product range is expanding in both light output and efficacy. The PLB010350 is our fi...

Plessey announced that samples of its GaN on silicon LED products are available. These entry level products are the first LEDs manufactured on 6-inch GaN on silicon substrates to be commercially available anywhere in the world. Plessey is using its proprietary large diameter GaN on silicon process technology to manufacture the LEDs onits 6-inch MAGIC (Manufactured on GaN I/C) line at its Plymouth, England facility.   The use of Plessey’s MAGIC GaN line using standard semiconductor manufacturing processing provides yield entitlements of g...

Plessey Semiconductors Ltd of Plymouth, UK has won the Solid-State Lighting Application Category of the Elektra Awards 2012 for its new MAGIC (MAnufactured on GaN ICs) High Brightness LEDs (HB-LEDs). The winners were announced at the European Electronics Industry Awards ceremony in London last week. Plessey’s MAGIC HB-LEDs are manufactured on standard silicon substrates, rather than on sapphire or silicon carbide, using industry standard, high volume processing. The firm’s technology uses gallium nitride (GaN) on 6-inch ...

Lately, University of Cambridge spin-out CamGaN is acquired by Plessey for making white power LEDs in Plymouth. Its critical intellectual property is a way of growing LED-quality GaN on silicon substrates. And white outputs of 150 lm/W are planned for late Q4 2012. According to CamGaN, "Our solutions harness novel, patent-protected technologies that increase the epiwafer throughput of standard MOCVD reactors by more than 40%. By increasing throughput without compromising quality, this technology offers the ability to decrease costs of LED dies by ...