Marin Soljačić

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Marin Soljačić

Born February 7, 1974 (1974-02-07) (age 34)
Zagreb, Croatia
Residence U.S.
Nationality Croatian
Fields Physicist and Electrical Engineer
Institutions Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Alma mater Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Doctoral advisor Mordechai Segev
Known for WiTricity, Nonlinear optics
Notable awards Adolph Lomb Medal (2005), TR35 (2006)

Marin Soljačić (born February 7, 1974) is a Croatian physicist and electrical engineer known for wireless non-radiative energy transfer.

[edit] Biography

Marin Soljačić was born in Zagreb, Croatia, in 1974. After graduating from XV Gimnazija in Zagreb (MIOC) he got a scholarship from MIT where he got his BSc in physics and electrical engineering in 1996. [1] In 1998 he got his MSc from Princeton University and in 2000 he got his PhD in Physics. In 2005 he became a professor of Physics at MIT. [2]

[edit] Work

In 2007 Marin Soljačić and his assistants successfully made the first efficient non-radiative power transfer at a distance of 2 meters turning on a 60 W light bulb. Energy transfer was 40% percent efficient. [3]

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