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Anthony Levi
Born	February 3, 1959 London, United Kingdom
Nationality	American
Alma mater	University of Sussex University of Cambridge
Known for	Microdisk nanolaser Hot electron transport Optimal semiconductor device design
Scientific career
Fields	Physics Electrical Engineering
Institutions	Bell Laboratories University of Southern California

A.F.J. (Tony) Levi (born 1959) is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of the University of Southern California (USC).

Levi received his doctoral degree from the University of Cambridge in 1983.^{[ citation needed]} From January 1984 he was a member of the technical staff at Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill, New Jersey.^{[ citation needed]} He left Bell Laboratories in May 1993 to take up a professorial post at the University of Southern California.^{[ citation needed]}

Levi has published research on experimental semiconductor device physics, including the experimental realization of the microdisk laser ^{[1] [2]} for the study of semiconductor lasers at the nanoscale. He has published on hot electron spectroscopy in semiconductors, ^[3] ballistic electron transport in heterostructure bipolar transistors, ^[4] room temperature operation of unipolar transistors with ballistic electron transport, ^[5] and optimal design of small electronic and photonic systems. ^[6] He is also author of the textbook Applied Quantum Mechanics, ^{[7] [8]} currently in its third edition. Levi's research has led to the development of new technologies, including advances in optical interconnect and x-ray imaging applications.^{[ according to whom?]}

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. ^[9]

Working with the Paul Scherrer Institute and researchers at the USC Viterbi School of Engineering, Levi helped advance a non-destructive form of scanning and imaging computer chips known as ptychographic x-ray laminography.^{[ citation needed]} In principle, such a technique allows for defect detection in manufactured chips as well as for reverse engineering of hardware-embedded circuit design. ^{[10] [11]}

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. ^[12]  Unclear notability relevance, plus being old

• 2022 Plenary talk Chip Scan: 3D X-Ray Imaging of CMOS Integrated Circuits, PSW Science ^[13]

• 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. doi: 10.1103/physrevlett.55.2071 PMID  10032002 ISSN  0031-9007
• 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. doi: 10.1063/1.98784 ISSN  0003-6951
• Levi, A. F. J. (1988-09-29). “Scaling ‘Ballistic’ Heterojunction Bipolar Transistors” Electronics Letters. Institution of Electrical Engineers (IEE). 24 (20): 1273-1275. doi: 10.1049/el:19880867 ISSN  0013-5194
• 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. doi: 10.1063/1.99545 ISSN  0003-6951
• 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. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.62.1683 PMID  10039737 ISSN  0031-9007
• 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. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.68.102  PMID  10045123 ISSN  0031-9007
• 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. doi: 10.1063/1.106688 ISSN  0003-6951
• 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). doi: 10.1063/1.2221497 ISSN  0021-8979
• 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. doi: 10.1137/070708330 ISSN  0363-0129
• 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. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevA.90.022119 ISSN  2469-9926

• Levi, A.F.J. (2023). “Applied Quantum Mechanics” (Third ed.). Cambridge University Press, ISBN  978-1-009-30807-6 doi: 10.1017/9781009308083
• Levi, A.F.J. (2020). “Essential Electron Transport for Device Physics”. AIP Publishing, ISBN  978-0-7354-2158-5 doi: 10.1063/9780735421608
• Levi, A.F.J. (2018). “Essential Semiconductor Laser Device Physics”. IOP Concise Physics. Morgan & Claypool Publishers. ISBN  978-1-64327-025-8 doi: 10.1088/9781643270289
• Levi, A.F.J. (2016). “Essential Classical Mechanics for Device Physics”. IOP Concise Physics. Morgan & Claypool Publishers. ISBN  978-1-68174-412-4 doi: 10.1088/978-1-6817-4413-1

• 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?