About Us
Adelphi Technology, Inc.
About Adelphi Technology, Inc.
Our multidisciplinary team is well suited to harnessing the knowledge from a variety of disciplines including physics, chemistry and mathematics, computing and electronics in order to develop robust and reliable products that meet our customers’ needs.
Our Team
Charles K. Gary
Chief Executive Officer
Dr. Gary has over thirty-five years of experience working in the generation, detection, and control of x-ray and neutron radiation. He has a Ph.D. Electrical Engineering from Stanford University (1991) and M.B.A. from Heriot Watt University (2004). Along with Dr. Piestrup, he has helped build Adelphi into a world leader in the manufacture of neutron generators. He has served as principal investigator for multiple DOE, DOD, NIH, NSF and NASA projects, including, of course, the development of neutron generators along with x-ray and neutron detectors and a nano-tomography system capable of submicron 3-D x-ray imaging. Prior to joining Adelphi Technology, he managed the ten-person Information Physics Group at the NASA Ames Research Center working on optical information processing technology. He has over 100 scientific publications and 11 patents.
Melvin A. Piestrup
Founder and Vice President of Research
Dr. Piestrup formed Adelphi Technology Inc. in 1984 as a sole proprietorship and in 1986 as a California Corporation. Dr. Piestrup has over 50 years of experience in the research and development of electron and ion sources and their use for the generation of x-rays and neutrons. He has a Ph.D. Electrical Engineering from Stanford University (1972). His early research included the first use of lasers to accelerator high energy electrons. Over a 40 year period he and his colleagues at Adelphi and Stanford University developed novel sources of vacuum ultraviolet, soft and hard x-rays using Čerenkov, transition and parametric radiators. Dr. Piestrup's research in the past 30 years has been primarily devoted to the development of new neutron and x-ray sources and optics for medical and industrial applications. Over the past 15 years he and his colleagues at Adelphi and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory developed new high-current ion sources driven by either RF or microwave power that are used to produced neutrons in Adelphi product line of generators.
Dr. Jay Theodore Cremer, Jr.
Chief Scientist
Dr. Cremer has over 35 years of experience working in the generation, detection, and control of x-ray and neutron radiation. He has a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from University of Maryland (1984). He has primary responsibility for Adelphi’s research and development work on neutron detection and optics. He the principal investigator on a number of US government funded programs that use of neutrons for homeland security, medical imaging and material science. He is currently leading projects with Indian University, Louisiana State University, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology on a range of neutron optics and devices for small angle scattering and radiography applications. He has been principal investigator for prior NIH, DOD and DOE funded projects on x-ray and neutron optics and neutron generators that lead to the development of the Adelphi neutron microscope, which obtained the first images of both mechanical objects and biological objects. He has 4 patents, and has published 36 peer reviewed papers and 4 books.
David Williams
Vice President Operations
Dr. Williams (Ph.D., MBA, CEng, PMP) first joined Adelphi Technology in 2007. He has a PhD in Physics from the University of Manchester, UK (1995) which was funded by the Royal Signals and Radar Establishment, in Malvern UK. He has worked at a range of organizations including the Defense Evaluation and Research Agency in UK, Intel Capital (the investment arm of Intel Corporation)and Intel Corporation in California, as well as several start-up companies including one focused on semiconductor materials for power devices. Dr Williams is a registered Chartered Engineer, holds the Project Management Professional (PMP) and Certified Scrum Master (CSM) certifications and has qualified as a lead auditor for ISO9001:2008. He also and has an MBA (1999), has 14 issued patents and 10 peer reviewed publications.
About Adelphi Technology, Inc.
Adelphi Technology Inc. is a neutron generator company with a 20+ year pedigree of developing leading edge products related to high energy physics. We manufacture DD and DT neutron generators and are actively developing a range of applications for our generators including imaging systems and integrated gamma ray analysis tools. We believe our high output, compact DD and DT neutron generator products are the highest-output neutron generators on the market today.
Adelphi’s staff has a deep and broad experience; 50% of our staff hold PhD’s. We have extensive experience in academic research, government laboratory research, the defense industry and the semiconductor industry. Our multidisciplinary team is well suited to harnessing the knowledge from a variety of disciplines including physics, chemistry and mathematics, computing and electronics in order to develop robust and reliable products that meet our customers’ needs.
For over 25 years, Adelphi Technology has been developing neutron sources that can be used in industry, teaching & research.
While we are focused on neutron generators and nuclear physics, we have also worked on novel x-ray sources, x-ray lenses and imaging applications.