Located in the heart of Silicon Valley, California.
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 Deuterium Fusion and Tritium Fusion neutron generators are the highest-output neutron generators on the market today.
Our Leadership Team
Charles K. Gary, PhD, MBA
Chief Executive Officer, Board Member
Dr. Gary joined Adelphi Technology, Inc. in 1998 as vice president of operations. In January of 2015 the board of directors appointed him 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 PhD Electrical Engineering from Stanford University (1991) and M.B.A. from Heriot Watt University (2004). He has primary responsibility for Adelphi’s manufacturing work. This includes the production of deuterium fusion generators for customers in the US and abroad. He is a certified Radiation Safety Officer, which is critical to the ability to conduct experiments and development work with neutron generators. He has served as principal investigator for multiple NIH, NSF and NASA projects, including the development of 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; the group won achievement awards for work on the X-33 reusable launch vehicle and the development of fiber optic sensors.
Melvin A. Piestrup, PhD
Vice President of Research and Marketing, Board Member
Dr. Piestrup formed Adelphi Technology Inc. in 1984 as a sole proprietorship and in 1986 as a California Corporation. Dr. Piestrup has over 40 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 PhD Electrical Engineering from Stanford University (1972). His early research included the first use of lasers to accelerator high energy electrons. Over a 30 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 20 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 six 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.
Ann H. McCormick, PhD
Board Member
Ann H. McCormick, PhD, founded The Learning Company, a children’s educational software company. She served as Chairman of the Board and Lead Designer, shaping the design of the company’s first 16 products, including Reader Rabbit and Rocky’s Boots. Under her leadership, TLC launched a new category of software and a leading national brand. The company went public and was sold for $660M. Ann has served as an advisor to education and technology leaders in 15 nations and consulted at Advanced Labs of Apple, IBM, HP, Northern Telecom, and other technology, publishing, research and telecommunications companies. She served as Vice President of VPL, a virtual reality company and gave invited lectures at Stanford (Engineering Management, Design, Computer Science, Education and Business), Harvard and the University of California (5 campuses). Ann wrote textbook chapters and articles on childhood and computing, and appeared on television shows such as the Donahue Show. She has won many awards, including the Parent’s Choice Gold Award, Best Software of the Year from Learning Magazine and Entrepreneur of the Decade from Junior Achievement. Ann earned a doctorate in Education at the University of California at Berkeley, where she was invited to deliver the 100th Anniversary Commencement Address for the School of Education.
Dr. J. Theodore Cremer, PhD
Chief Scientist
Dr. Cremer joined Adelphi Technology, Inc. in 1996. He has over twenty-five years of experience working in the generation, detection, and control of x-ray and neutron radiation. He has a PhD 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 recently developed a fast neutron imaging detector for non-destructive testing and imaging. He is also developing a rapid detection and identification of explosives via fast neutron inelastic scatter and nuclear resonant fluorescence. Finally, Dr. Cremer is Principal Investigator on a program to develop a thermal neutron prism for use in a monochromator in materials testing. He has been principal investigator for prior NIH, MDA 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, most recently “Neutron and X-ray Optics” (2013), Elesvier Press.
Allan Chen, PhD
Director Product Development
Dr. Allan Chen joined Adelphi in 2013, he holds a PhD in Mechanical Engineering from the University of California at Berkeley (2013) with major emphasis on heat transfer and minor emphasis on plasma physics and nuclear engineering. Previously, he has worked at Sandia National Laboratories as a graduate student researcher on several projects to develop novel ultra-compact radiation generators. He has extensive knowledge and experience in the development of high-current RF- and microwave-based ion sources for integration with high-yield neutron generators. During his graduate studies, Dr. Chen was one of the lead designers in the team that developed the high-flux neutron generator at the University of California-Berkeley. His main role was in the design and analysis of a high heat flux target used for neutron production and the Monte-Carlo based shielding calculations. Since joining Adelphi in 2013, Dr. Chen has been a lead designer in the development of the company’s flagship line of compact neutron generators. Dr Chen has 8 peer reviewed publications.
David Williams, PhD, MBA, CEng, PMP
Vice President Operations
Dr. Williams (PhD, 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.