Larry Levit's career in static control
Dr. Levit provides a variety of ESD consulting services under the name LBL_Scientific. His background includes Global ESD program Manager for Finisar Corporation and Chief Scientist for MKS, Ion Systems, Between the two he has over 15 years of experience in the field of ESD control. He is a NARTE Certified ESD Engineer. His specialty has been ESD control in high technology cleanrooms including fiber optics, semiconductor FEOL and BEOL, disk drive manufacturing and LCD manufacturing. His work has taken him into a large fraction of the semiconductor, disk drive and flat panel cleanrooms in the world. He is a senior member of the IEST and has provided ESD consulting to many leading semiconductor, fiber optics, disk drive and flat panel corporations worldwide.
Levit has audited cleanrooms on three continents and is recognized as a problem solver, having identified problems and improved microcontamination control. He has successfully devised solutions to manufacturing problems to reduce ESD yield loss, contamination issues and reticle damage. He has also been an invited speaker at conferences around the world as well as a trainer for high technology companies, providing trainings and briefings at every level from production works to senior management.
Before joining MKS, Ion Systems, Levit held technical support, sales and marketing rolls at LeCroy Corporation and Jandel Scientific Software. At LeCroy, he contributed to the instrumentation designs for 6 experiments which produced Nobel prizes in physics.
Levit also taught physics at CWRU and LSU at both the undergraduate and graduate level and has presented hundreds of seminars worldwide on ESD control, including at of the ESDiscovery tutorials. He has published papers in both trade journals and scholarly journals on the subjects of ESD control, high speed data acquisition, and digital signal processing. he has been a frequent contributor and invited speaker at a variety of conferences including ASMC, Semicon, ESDA, Discon, Cleanrooms, BACUS, European Mask Conference and ICCCS in the US, Asia and Europe.
Levit is a senior member of the ESD Association, a senior member of the IEST and sits on the Board of Directors of the SiVa ESD Society and is the chair of WG22 of the IEST. He holds 6 patents in the area of ESD control.
Levit graduated from Case Institute of Technology, Cleveland, Ohio with a BS degree in physics with honors. In 1970, he earned a Ph.D. in Experimental High Energy Physics from Case Western Reserve University.
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