A. F. J. Levi. Anthony F. J. Levi (born 1959) is a British-born engineer and academic. He is professor of electrical and computer engineering at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of the University of Southern California (USC).

Research 
Levi has published research on experimental semiconductor device physics, including the experimental realization of the microdisk laser for the study of semiconductor lasers at the nanoscale. He has published on hot electron spectroscopy in semiconductors, ballistic electron transport in heterostructure bipolar transistors, room temperature operation of unipolar transistors with ballistic electron transport, and optimal design of small electronic and photonic systems. He is also author of the textbook Applied Quantum Mechanics, currently in its third edition. 

Working with Agilent Technologies, Levi co-developed an optical connector plug-in package capable of transmitting data at an aggregate rate of 10 Gb/s in late 2000. 

Working with the Paul Scherrer Institute and researchers at the USC Viterbi School of Engineering, Levi helped advance a technique for defect detection in manufactured chips as well as for reverse engineering of hardware-embedded circuit design.

In an interview with Reuters, Levi commented on supply chain concerns facing the chip industry in the U.S. during the COVID-19 pandemic, suggesting that such issues could be mitigated by focusing on rebuilding the U.S. chip manufacturing and packaging industry.

Notable Talks 

 2022 Plenary talk Chip Scan: 3D X-Ray Imaging of CMOS Integrated Circuits, PSW Science

Publications 
 Levi, A. F. J.; Hayes, J. R.; Platzman P. M.; Wiegmann, W. (1985-11-04). “Injected Hot Electron Transport in GaAs” Physical Review Letters. American Physical Society (APS). 55 (19): 2071-2073.   
 Levi, A. F. J.; Chiu, T. H. (1987-09-28). “Room Temperature Operation of Hot Electron Transistors” Applied Physics Letters. American Institute of Physics (AIP). 51 (13): 984-986.  
 Levi, A. F. J. (1988-09-29). “Scaling ‘Ballistic’ Heterojunction Bipolar Transistors” Electronics Letters. Institution of Electrical Engineers (IEE). 24 (20): 1273-1275.  
 Berthold, K.; Levi, A. F. J.; Walker, J.; Malik, R. J. (1988-06-27). “Extreme Nonequilibrium Electron Transport in Heterojunction Bipolar Transistors” Applied Physics Letters. American Institute of Physics (AIP). 52 (26): 2247-2249.  
 Gelfand, B. Y.; S. Schmitt-Rink S.; Levi. A. F. J. (1989-04-03). “Tunneling in the Presence of Phonons: A Solvable Model” Physical Review Letters. American Physical Society (APS). 62 (14): 1683-1686.   
 Chuang, S. L.; Schmitt-Rink, S.; Greene, B. I.; Saeta, P. N.; Levi, A. F. J. (1992-01-06). “Optical rectification at semiconductor surfaces” Physical Review Letters. American Physical Society (APS).  68 (1): 102-105.    
 McCall, S. L.; Levi, A. F. J.; Slusher, R. E.; Pearton, S. J.; Logan, R. A. (1992-01-20). “Whispering-gallery mode microdisk lasers” Applied Physics Letters. American Institute of Physics (AIP). 60 (3): 289-291.  
 Seliger, P.; Mahvash, M.; Wang, C.; Levi, A. F. J. (2006-08-08). “Optimization of aperiodic dielectric structures” Journal of Applied Physics. American Institute of Physics (AIP). 100 (3) 034310-(1-6).  
 Levi, A. F. J.; Rosen, G. (2010-01-15). “A novel formulation of the adjoint method in the design of quantum electronic devices” SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization. Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM). 48 (5): 3191-3223.  
 Levi, A. F. J.; Campos Venuti, L.; Albash, T.; Haas, S. (2014-08-24). “Coherent control of non-Markovian photon resonator dynamics” Physical Review A. American Physical Society (APS). 90 (2): 022119.

Books 
 Levi, A.F.J. (2023). “Applied Quantum Mechanics” (Third ed.). Cambridge University Press,  
 Levi, A.F.J. (2020). “Essential Electron Transport for Device Physics”. AIP Publishing,  
 Levi, A.F.J. (2018). “Essential Semiconductor Laser Device Physics”. IOP Concise Physics. Morgan & Claypool Publishers.  
 Levi, A.F.J. (2016). “Essential Classical Mechanics for Device Physics”. IOP Concise Physics. Morgan & Claypool Publishers.

References

External links 
 USC faculty page
 AFJ Levi research group website at USC
 Philosophical Society of Washington Lecture: Chip Scan: 3D X-Ray Imaging of CMOS Integrated Circuits - Can you trust the electronics you use?

1959 births
Living people
University of Southern California faculty
Alumni of the University of Sussex
Alumni of the University of Cambridge
Scientists at Bell Labs
Scientists from London