Research

Research and Development (R&D) is key to developing our next generation of products. We perform contract research for customers, and participate in collaborative research programs with universities and other small businesses.

Adelphi Technology can provide practical insights into irradiating samples, having irradiated many different materials for a variety of measurements. Our experience also includes gamma ray spectroscopy, nuclear chemistry, radiological compliance and safety, and electronics design.

As part of this experience we are competent at using various software packages, PCB design: Cadsoft-Autodesk EAGLE/ Altium], mechanical design [Solidworks/Fusion 360], simulation Ion beams [IGUN], neutron transport/radiation transport [MCNP / GEANT4], physics simulation [COMSOL], electronics simulation [SPICE / LTSPICE], magnetic fields [Vizimag / FEMM]. We have decades of practical experience of vacuum systems design, plasma physics, laser physics, microwave/RF design, high voltage systems, and technical programming.

We would be happy to discuss your research needs and explore ways we could help solve your problems.

Adelphi Technology has participated in several government contracts, several of which are with the SBIR and STTR programs (Small Business Innovative Research and Small Business Technology Transfer programs). We have worked on research projects for a number of U.S. government agencies. A list of these contracts that have focused on developing the core neutron generator technology, is given below:

Adelphi Technology has participated in neutron generator-related government grants over the last 15 years

• 2024 DHS/CWMD ECR ion source improvements for security applications
• 2024 DTRA
• 2023 DOE Real-time soil core scanner for carbon and other elements” (subcontractor)
• 2022 NIH A Compact Neutron Source for Neutron Capture Therapy for Pontine Glioma
• 2018 DHS/CWMD (subcontractor)
• 2020 DOE Ultra-Portable API Neutron Source
• 2019 DOE Portable Compact API System Using a Semiconductor Alpha Detector
• 2018 DOD Nondestructive concrete mapping using neutrons
• 2017 DOE Nondestructive, Bulk Rare Earth Element Measurement System for Coal
• 2015 DARPA Intense COmpact Neutron Source (ICONS)
• 2008 DOE High Brightness Neutron Source for Radiography
• 2007 DOE High Energy Gamma-Ray Calibration Source
• 2007 DOD Short Pulse Neutron Generator
• 2007 DHS High-Yield Pulsed Neutron Generator

A more extensive list, which includes research contracts performed as collaborations with niversities and also contracts that predate our work on neutron generators is listed below: Make the following a drop down thing so the text isn’t there unless people click, but Google will search it.

Adelphi Technology has participated in a wider set of programs since the 1980s

• 2024: DOE “Powder Neutron Diffractometer For Testing of Irradiation Effects in Nuclear Fuels and Materials”
• 2024 DOE “Lab-Based Small Angle Neutron Scattering Instrument”
• 2024 DOE “Multiplexing Focusing Analyzer for Efficient Stress-Strain Measurements”
• 2023 DOE 2023 Aberration-corrected High Frequency RF Flipper for High-Resolution Neutron Spectroscopy
• 2023 DOE 2023 Compact, portable single-crystal neutron diffractometer
• 2022 DOE Universal Neutron Spin Flipper
• 2022 DOE Compact Accelerator SANS Instrument, Neutron Generator SANS Instrument
• 2022 DOT Compact Broadband Leak Detector for Autonomous Vehicles
• 2021 DOE Polarization Manipulation and Correction Device
• 2020 DOE Multiplexing Focusing Analyzer for Efficient Stress-Strain Measurements
• 2020 DOC Portable Analyzer for Ultra sensitive Detection and Quantification of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons in Shellfish
• 2019 DOE Grating-Based Imaging-Scattering with Portable Neutron Generator
• 2019 US Army Integration of Living Cells in Nanospring Networks for Multisensory Odor Detector
• 2018 DOE Wide Angle Neutron Spin Echo Device
• 2018 DOE Axisymmetric and Focusing Analyzers to Enable Efficient Powder and Residual Stress Neutron Diffractometers
• 2018 DOE Compact API system using a semiconductor alpha detector
• 2018 AF Nondestructive concrete mapping using neutrons
• 2017 DOE Neutron optical device to measure mesoscopic space and time correlations and eliminate quasi-elastic scattering from SANS
• 2017 DOE Nondestructive, Bulk Rare Earth Element Measurement System for Coal
• 2016 DHS Plastic-Crystal Composite Scintillator for Multi-Signature Radiation Detection
• 2013 DOE Superconducting Wollaston Prism for Spin Echo Scattering Angle Measurement
• 2013 DOE Efficient, high resolution, position sensitive liquid argon detectors
• 2012 DOE Compound Magnetic Lens for Providing Focused, Polarized Neutrons
• 2010 DOE Development of Superconducting Wollaston Prisms
• 2008 DOE Compound Refractive Lenses for Thermal Neutron Applications
• 2008 AF Short Pulse Neutron Generator
• DOE 2007 Neutron Compound Refractive Prisms
• 2007 DOE High-Energy Gamma-Ray Calibration Source
• 2007 DHS High-Yield Pulsed Neutron Generator
• 2006 Army Detection of Improvised Explosive Devices
• 2006 NIH An Epithermal Neutron Source for Cancer Therapy
• 2005 NIH Neutron Microscope for In-Vivo Imaging
• 2005 NIH High-resolution tomography for small animal imaging
• 2005 NIH Dark-Field Hard-X-ray Microscope
• 2005 NSF Efficient, High-Resolution Fast-Neutron Detector
• 2004 DOE High Brightness Neutron Source for Radiography
• 2003 NSF X-ray Microscope for In-vivo Biological Imaging
• 2002 MDA An Inexpensive, Material-Specific, Gamma-Ray Detector
• 2002 MDA Large Area X-ray Lenses for Directed-Energy, Sensing, and Imaging Applications
• 2002 NSF Synchrotron Mimic for Lithography
• 2002 DOE An Inexpensive, Efficient Neutron Monochromator
• 2001 NIH Microscopy with Neutron Refractive Lenses
• 2001 DOE Large-Area, High-Sensitivity, High-Resolution X-Ray Imager
• 2001 NIH Large-Area, Low-Cost, High-Resolution X-Ray Imager
• 2000 NIH Quasi-Monochromatic X-Ray Source for Mammography
• 1999 NASA Large-Area, Low-Cost, High-Resolution X-ray Detector and Electron Amplifier
• 1998 MDA Refractive X-ray Lenses for Directed-Energy Applications
• 1997 NIH Interferometry Based Bioanalysis Detector
• 1996 DOE A Compact, Inexpensive Electron Source
• 1996 NIH High Intensity X-Ray Source for Medical Imaging
• 1995 DOE An inexpensive electronically tunable chemical sensor
• 1995 NIH Improved Track-Etched Filter Technology
• 1995 NSF Compact Betatron for Nondestructive Evaluation
• 1994 NIH Surface plasmon fiber sensor for antibody detection
• 1994 DOT A tunable monochromatic x-ray generator for explosives detector
• 1994 NIH Room Temperature Instrument Sterilization Process
• 1994 NIH Noval Optical Fiber Sensor for Toxic Gases
• 1994 DOE An Inexpensive High-Current Betatron
• 1993 NIH Detection of Hybridization Without Radioactive Label
• 1993 NIH Quasimonochromatic x-ray source for mammography
• 1993 NSF A High Intensity Excimer UV Source for Semiconductor Manufacturing
• 1991 AF A coherent x-ray source using transition radiation
• 1991 DOE A surface plasmon monitor for in-situ thin film analysis
• 1991 DOE Parametric radiation as an intense monchromatic x-ray source
• 1991 NIH Surface plasmon immunoassay for measurement of HCG
• 1991 NSF High concentration ozone production for semiconductor manufacturing
• 1991 NSF A collimated x-ray lithography source using a Kumakhov lens
• 1990 DOE Charged-particle detectors using resonance transition radiation
• 1990 DOE A pulsed x-ray source using K-edge transit radiation
• 1990 NSF High Efficiency Ozone Generation
• 1990 NSF Superlattice Channeling Radiation as an Intense, Quasi-Monochromatic X-Ray Source
• 1989 NSF A Multilayer Mirror/Monochromator for Dual-Energy Digital Subtraction Angiography
• 1987 MDA X-ray free electron laser loaded with periodic dielectric
• 1987 NSF A Soft X-ray Source with Focusing Optics for Spectroscopy
• 1987 NSF Real-Time Energy Detector for Relativistic Charged Particles
• 1986 DOE Detection of coherent transition radiation and its application to beam diagnostics and particle identification
• 1986 NIH Application of channeling radiation to noninvasive angiography
• 1985 DOE The Construction of a soft X-ray source for Transition Radiation for Lithography
• 1984 NSF The application of transition radiation to non-invasive angiography
• 1984 DOE Increasing the acceleration gradient of the transverse field accelerator using a dielectric medium
• 1984 DOE Increasing the accelerator gradient of the transverse-field accelerator using a dielectric medium