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About Us: The Teraphysics Team
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 Dr. Gerald T. Mearini, Ph.D. - President & Founder
Received PhD. in experimental physics from Case Western Reserve University in 1991 specializing in thin film deposition, mechanical properties of thin films and applied surface physics. Dr. Mearini studied under Professor R.W. Hoffman, one of the "fathers" of modern thin film deposition techniques.
During the period 1991-1995, Dr. Mearini was employed at the Space Communications Division of NASA Lewis Research Center, where he pioneered very high secondary electron emission and field emission from CVD diamond films for space electronic applications. This led to national recognition in the "diamond" community and the founding of GENVAC AEROSPACE and Teraphysics.
At GENVAC, Dr. Mearini pioneered techniques for selective growth of critically enabling CVD diamond components for next generation communication devices . He also pioneered a room temperature process to deposit Indium-Tin Oxide (ITO) on plastic substrates, which, through a partnership with The Liquid Crystal Institute at Kent State University, has led to some of the world's first plastic-based LCDs. Dr. Mearini has numerous publications in the areas of electron emission from diamond, and single and multilayered thin film properties and deposition techniques.
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 Dr. James A. Dayton, Jr., Ph.D. - Chief Technology Officer
Received PhD in EE from the University of Illinois in 1965. Dr. Dayton was a Research Engineer and worked on plasma diagnostics at Cornell Aeronautical Laboratory in Buffalo, NY. In 1967 he joined the NASA Lewis Research Center in Cleveland, OH, and for the next 31 years until his retirement from NASA in 1998, Dr. Dayton's work as a researcher and supervisor was primarily in the area of efficiency enhancement of the traveling wave tube (TWT) with particular emphasis on computer modeling. He produced the first computer models of multistage collectors, and under his leadership TWTs of unprecedented efficiency were developed for the NASA missions, Mars Observer and Cassini.
In August 1998 Dr. Dayton was recruited by Hughes Electron Dynamics (now Boeing Electron Dynamic Devices) to serve as Director of Technology and Advanced Development. Under his direction, computer modeling techniques developed at NASA were reduced to engineering design practice leading to first pass success in the development of highly efficient TWTs operating over a range from 2 to 45 GHz and resulting in an unprecedented number of new devices entering production. Dr. Dayton joined Genvac Aerospace in November 2001.
Dr. Dayton is a Fellow of the IEEE and the author or co-author of approximately 100 journal articles, conference presentations, patent applications and NASA reports. He served as the Chairman of the IEEE EDS Technical Committee on Vacuum Devices from 1997-2004.
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 Louis S. Fisi - Chairman, CEO
Mr. Fisi received his BSBA from the University of Akron in 1957 and received his executive MBA from the University of Indiana.
Following two years of service in the military, Mr. Fisi was employed by the international accounting firm currently known as Ernst & Young ultimately serving as an audit client executive until 1976. He was then employed with the Smithers Company, an international industrial manufacturer, as CFO and then COO from 1976 to 1985. In 1985 Mr. Fisi was a founding member of Advanced Lighting Technologies, Inc. (ADLT), and served as its CFO, executive vice president, and as a director from 1985 until his retirement in 2000. ADLT became a public company in 1995 and raised over $275 million in the public markets through 2000.
Since his formal retirement Mr. Fisi has been a consultant to various enterprises. His primary endeavor since formal retirement has been the formation of an entity, the Teraphysics Corporation, that develops communications devices enabled by various nano materials. He recently assumed the roles of the Teraphysics Chairman and CEO.
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