About Us
Germgard Lighting LLC is funded by and located in a NJ
Commission on Science and Technology supported innovation
incubator on the campus of the U.S. Army Picatinny Arsenal.
Its technology pipeline enables a multi-tiered approach to
infection prevention that includes cost effective bare and
gloved hand sanitation, medical instrument sterilization,
surface cleaning, and air sterilization. The Company has
over 10 patents pending. The Company intends to partner
with one or more organizations that are appropriate for
manufacturing and distribution of our products in North
America, Europe and the rest-of-the-world.
Dr. Eugene I. Gordon, Acting CEO/CTO, Founder
is a world-renowned scientist and
engineer. During his 26 years at AT&T Bell
Labs he and his group discovered and developed
several important laser systems, including the
well-known, red, helium-neon laser. He invented
and developed the powerful, continuous, blue-
green argon ion laser. He also invented and
developed acousto-optic light modulators and
deflectors used currently in many opto-electronic
systems. Similarly he and his group invented and
developed the charge coupled device (CCD) used as
the sensing array in most digital camera,
television and infra-red imaging systems for
military applications, especially the CAMCORDER
and facsimile machines and for astronomy. As
described below Dr. Gordon invented the solution
for making semiconductor lasers sufficiently
reliable for long haul fiber optic communications.
Dr. Gordon is named inventor on approximately 80
US patents and has published over 50 papers in
peer-reviewed journals.
Dr. Gordon is an elected member of the National
Academy of Engineering (1978), a Life Fellow of the
IEEE, and has been awarded the prestigious IEEE Edison
Medal and the IEEE Zworykin Field Award, as well as
numerous other awards. He has been active
professionally; he founded one IEEE Society, (the
predecessor of the Lasers and Electro-Optics Society,
LEOS), two IEEE journals, (Journal of Quantum
Electronics and Electron Device Letters), has served as
associate editor of two IEEE journals, and been active
in IEEE Publications and Awards for many years. He was
a consultant for DOD and was chairman of Working Group
C of the Advisory Group on Electron Devices (AGED is a
committee of DOD) from 1970 - 1981 and a board member
of AGED from 1981 - 1984.
He graduated Magna Cum Laude from City College of New
York in 1952. He received a Ph.D. in Physics from MIT,
in 1957 doing his thesis in gas discharge physics and
microwaves and remaining for postdoctoral research on
plasma based, thermonuclear fusion. In November 1957 he
joined the staff of AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray
Hill, N.J. becoming Laboratory Director in 1968. Most
of his work involved the entire innovative span from
research and invention through manufacturing. He led
many projects including the invention and development
of imaging devices (the indestructible silicon target
camera tube) for PICTUREPHONE®, the Bell System
video telephone system (the tube was also used in
NASA's Apollo landings); the CCD, EBES, the first and
still most important commercial electron-beam mask
maker for silicon integrated circuit manufacture; and
the semiconductor laser devices for the Bell System's
Lightwave Systems. He made the essential contribution
to the laser reliability for the Bell System's first
transatlantic, fiber-optic undersea cable, TAT-8. The
issue was viability of semiconductor lasers in
underwater repeaters that had to last for 25 years of
continuous operation without a single failure, a task
that was generally judged as of 1980 to be impossible.
He invented and implemented the solution and by 1983
could responsibly inform AT&T that the plan for
initial operation in 1988 would not be deterred by
laser reliability concerns. Service was implemented on
schedule. Ultimately such systems produced many
billions of dollars of revenue for AT&T. The TAT-8
system was recently retired with no laser failures. In
contrast, the short French and UK legs installed at the
same time were plagued by laser failures. The long haul
fiber optic systems are also the backbone of
Internet.
Dr. Gordon retired from AT&T in 1983 and founded
Lytel, Inc. of Somerville, NJ, a manufacturer of lasers
and optical transmission subsystems; he was Chairman
and CEO. AMP bought Lytel in 1988. He also helped to
found Taunton Technology of Monroe, CT (until recently
VISX now AMO) in 1984 and was a Board Director of that
company. The latter activity is an outgrowth of his
strong interest in medical uses of lasers, a research
area to which he made early, important contributions.
One of these related to the use of the argon laser and
invention of the articulated arm photocoagulator for
treatment of diabetic retinopathy and cure of blindness
with Francis A. L'Esperance, Jr., MD of Columbia
University. The procedure has been used on over 20
million patients. He joined Hughes Aircraft Company in
1987 as Senior Vice President and Director of their
Research Labs located in Malibu, CA. Dr. Gordon has
been adjunct professor in the Department of
Ophthalmology of the University of Medicine and
Dentistry of New Jersey since June 1994. He founded
Medjet Inc. in 1994. Medjet developed vision correction
equipment. Lytel will soon reverse merge with another
company.
Peter E. Gordon, VP Marketing, Founder
has over 10 years of semiconductor
and photonic industry experience in International
Sales Management, Product Line Management, and
Senior Product Marketing. Early in his career, he
spent one year in Washington, DC lobbying on
behalf of small manufacturing companies leading to
the passage of a key piece of legislation aimed at
improving the competitiveness of U.S. industry. He
later was Director of Sales and Marketing for Asia
at DSP Group and Director of Strategic Sales and
Marketing for C Speed. His most recent work has
been selling photonic components, subsystems, and
equipment into Life Sciences, Medical Device,
Consumer Lighting, Communication, and Defense
applications.
He holds a Masters degree in International Business
and History of Technology from Edinburgh University. He
also holds a Masters Degree in Electrical Engineering
from the University of California, Santa Barbara, where
he focused on opto-electronic device processing. He
earned his Bachelors Degree in Electrical Engineering
from the University of Pennsylvania where he had a dual
focus on semiconductor physics and marketing through
the Wharton School.
Dr. Edward E. David, Jr., Advisor
is President of EED, Inc., advisors
to industry, government, and universities on
technology, research, and innovation
management.
During his career, Dr. David was Science Advisor to
the President of the United States and Director of the
White House Office of Science and Technology, President
of Exxon Research and Engineering Company, and
Executive Director of AT&T Bell Telephone
Laboratories.
Dr. David is a retired U.S. Representative to the NATO
Science Committee. He is a member of the American
Philosophical Society, of the National Academy of
Engineering (1966), of the National Academy of Public
Administration, of the National Academy of Sciences,
and a trustee of John S. Guggenheim Foundation. He is a
Life Member of the Corporation of the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology, and a Life Fellow of the
Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineering. He
is former President of the American Association for
Advancement of Science. Dr. David's engagements in
business have included 20 boards of directors and
technical advisory boards both nationally and abroad.
He is also Vice President and Principal of the
Washington Advisory Group.
He received his Doctorate in electrical engineering
from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and is
a recipient of 12 honorary degrees from such
institutions as the University of Pennsylvania, Rutgers
University, Lehigh University, Carnegie-Mellon
University, the University of Michigan, Rensselaer
Polytechnic Institute, and others.
Dr. David has advised and participated in
battery-related power supplies and the controls for
such systems. Uninterruptible power supplies (UPS) have
been a particular interest. He has received numerous
awards including the induction into Eta Kappa Nu
Eminent Member, 2001, the Georgia Institute of
Technology Hall of Fame in 1994, Hall of Fame of
American Society for Engineering Education in 1993, the
MIT Silver Stein Award in 1991, the Delmer S. Fahrney
Medal from the Franklin Institute in 1985, the Arthur
M. Bueche Award from National Academy of Engineering in
1984, and the Industrial Research Institute Medal in
1983.
