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  • Plessey Semiconductors Ltd. Tamerton Road Roborough Plymouth
    PL6 7BQ
    United Kingdom
  • +44 (0)1752 693000
  • http://www.plesseysemi.com
  • +44 (0)1752 693200

Plessey Semiconductors Articles

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Optoelectronics
5th January 2018
Monolithic microLED display based on GaN-on-Silicon

Optoelectronic technology solutions developer, Plessey Semiconductor, has announced its commitment to being the first to market with a monolithic microLED based display based on GaN-on-Silicon. Plessey has also commenced an extensive licensing programme that will see the company license out its GaN-on-Silicon expertise to microLED manufacturers in line with its new business strategy of becoming the photonic industry’s foremost tec...

Optoelectronics
5th October 2017
How does your garden grow? With LEDs!

Developer of LED technologies and manufacturer of solid-state lighting products, Plessey, has announced a partnership with Dutch alstroemeria grower Together2Grow, following a successful trial of its LED grow lights combined with existing high-pressure sodium (HPS) lighting in a hybrid installation. The four-month trial, managed by Maarten Klein, Plessey’s Head Agronomist, has been running since the end of November 2016 at Togethe...

Optoelectronics
20th September 2017
LED and sodium hybrid lighting help Dutch grower

Plessey has announced the results from a trial of its LED grow lights combined with existing high-pressure sodium (HPS) lighting in a hybrid installation with a leading tomato grower in the Netherlands. The seven-month trial, managed by Maarten Klein, Plessey’s Head Agronomist, has been running since the end of November 2016 at Gebr. Koot BV of the Prominent Group, to assess the benefits of adding LED to existing HPS lighting compared ...

Optoelectronics
24th July 2017
LED portfolio expands to target general lighting applications

Plessey has announced that it is extending its LED product portfolio into a variety of mid-power LED packages. Plessey now offers lighting equipment manufacturers a complete portfolio of solid-state lighting products and solutions for all general illumination market applications. Plessey’s mid-power LED product offering, called MIDION, includes products with leading-edge performance with efficacies up to 210 Lm/W, modules with zero fli...

Analysis
23rd May 2017
imPulse ECG monitor wins ‘Healthcare Technology of the Year’

Plessey has won the prestigious National Technology Award for ‘Healthcare Technology of the Year’ for its imPulse ECG monitoring product. The winners were announced at the inaugural National Technology Awards ceremony and gala dinner at the Millennium Hotel London Mayfair. Over 300 guests attended the ceremony which celebrated technological achievements and excellence.

Optoelectronics
2nd May 2017
Beam forming module opens new vistas for lighting engineers

Plessey’s ORION beam forming module is now being distributed globally by Mouser Electronics. The Orion PLWS3000 series module represented a size and performance breakthrough for LED lighting modules giving architectural and industrial lighting designers a new level of design freedom. By integrating the LED and optics into a tiny module, the Orion module delivers over 3000 lumens from a unit just 5.6mm thick and 82mm in diameter. 

Optoelectronics
5th April 2017
Single-chip high-power LEDs target handheld lighting market

Manufacturer of lighting and sensing products and components, Plessey, is now targeting handheld and portable lighting applications. When lighting is dependent on battery power, the benefit of a single-chip that can outperform the standard four-chip by 30% is clear to see. Plessey LEDs utilise its MaGIC GaN-on-Silicon technology to provide high-power LED components and system-level lighting solutions, from blue die through to complete lumina...

Optoelectronics
9th March 2017
Horticultural LED lights spur on crop growth

Developer of LED technologies and manufacturer of solid-state lighting products, Plessey, has announced it is running horticultural lighting trials with four of the Netherlands’ leading growers: Villa Gerbera (growing a crop of gerbera), Gebr. Koot BV (tomatoes), Together2Grow (alstroemeria) and Slijkerman Kalanchoe (kalanchoe). The trials are being overseen by Maarten Klein, Plessey’s Head Agronomist. Before joining Plessey, Maa...

Optoelectronics
24th January 2017
Horticultural LED light cuts energy by 40%

Plessey launched the Hyperion family of high-power horticultural LED grow lights. Designed specifically to provide supplementary lighting in greenhouses, the Hyperion 1000 and Hyperion 1600 units deliver greater returns for commercial growers through increased productivity while achieving a 40% energy saving compared to equivalent 600W and 1000W sodium grow lights.

Optoelectronics
23rd November 2016
LED module family extended with new beam widths

A range of slim Orion LED modules based on Plessey's Stellar beam forming technology has been extended, with new beam angles opening the technology to a range of applications in industrial and architectural lighting design. Plessey will be showcasing the modules at their LuxLive booth M8.

Events News
9th November 2016
Plessey to unveil Orion LED modules at LuxLive

Plessey is to unveil additions to its Orion LED module family based on Stellar beam forming technology at LuxLive (London, November 23-24 2016, stand M8). The new modules will form an interchangeable family, allowing lighting designers to simply and easily substitute modules to create a family of compact luminaires suitable for a wide range of lighting applications.

Events News
2nd November 2016
Beam-forming optical technology to be shown at electronica

A standard LED module based on Plessey's Stellar beam forming technology is to be exhibited at electronica (Munich, 8th to 11th November 2016, stand A4-128). By integrating the LED and optics into a small module, the Plessey Orion PLWS3000 series module delivers over 3,000 lumens from a unit 5.6mm thick and 82mm in diameter.

Optoelectronics
18th October 2016
Single chip LEDs improve thermal performance and reduce cost

Manufacturer of lighting and sensing products and components, Plessey, has announced the launch of its 7070 high power LED range, part number PLW7070GA. They take full advantage of Plessey’s GaN on silicon MaGIC technology and provide a high power LED component on an industry standard package footprint, complementing Plessey’s existing family of i2LED high power products. 

Medical
13th October 2016
Plessey shortlisted in 'Healthcare Technologies' category at IET awards

Plessey have been shortlisted in the Healthcare Technologies category for its imPulse ECG monitor at The IET (The Institution of Engineering and Technology) Awards 2016. IET’s prestigious annual awards celebrate the best innovations from both industry and academia. The IET highlights landmark work and developments that take place across a number of important areas of science, engineering and technology.

Optoelectronics
30th September 2016
Beam forming module using Stellar optical technology launched

Plessey have announced the first standard LED module based on Stellar beam forming technology. The new standard module opens opportunities for creativity in industrial and architectural lighting design.

Events News
29th September 2016
First showing of heart rate-based driver alertness system

Exhibiting a new heart rate-based driver alertness monitoring system, Plessey and SEGULA Technologies will be at this year's Paris Motor show in Porte de Versailles from 1st –16th October. The sensors are integrated into the seatback, and provide earlier warning of drowsiness or health issues than systems based on eye or head movement.

Analysis
18th April 2016
Plessey signs license agreement with PhytoLux

Plessey has announced that it has signed a global exclusive license agreement to manufacture and sell the PhytoLux horticultural lighting solutions. Plessey has taken on the operational, technical and commercial activities of PhytoLux. This collaboration combines the best of British design engineering to provide world-class LED plant growth lighting solutions for the global market.

Optoelectronics
14th March 2016
Integrated LED beam control modules now available from Plessey

Plessey announced that it will be releasing its LED beam control module, which they are branding Stellar at the Light and Building event from 13-18th March 2016 at the Fair and Exhibition Centre in Frankfurt, Germany. Stellar is Plessey's latest, GaN-on-silicon, LED solution and showcases the combination of Plessey's MaGIC low cost, high efficiency, surface-emitting LEDs with unique modular optics representing the next phase in LED lighting.

Optoelectronics
19th January 2016
Plessey to build LEDs in cubic GaN on 3C-SiC/Si substrates

Plessey, Anvil Semiconductors and the University of Cambridge announced that they are working together to fabricate high efficiency LEDs in cubic GaN grown on Anvil's 3C-SiC / Si substrates. Cubic GaN has the potential to overcome the problems caused in conventional LEDs by the strong internal electric fields which impair carrier recombination and contribute to efficiency droop.

Optoelectronics
19th November 2015
LED architectural lighting has high efficiency

Plessey announced that it has collaborated with 8Point3 to develop and produce a high efficiency architectural lighting product range. Plessey has signed a long-term commercial agreement with 8point3 to supply the lighting modules, including the company's MaGIC GaN-on-Silicon LEDs.

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