Marin Soljačić
{{Short description|Croatian physicist and electrical engineer}}
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| name = Marin Soljačić
| image = Soljacic apr2023.jpg
| caption = Soljačić in 2023
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| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1974|2|7|mf=y}}
| birth_place = Zagreb, Yugoslavia (present-day Croatia)
| nationality = Croatian
| fields = Physicist and Electrical Engineer
| workplaces = Massachusetts Institute of Technology
| alma_mater = Massachusetts Institute of Technology
| doctoral_advisor = Mordechai Segev{{cite web|url=https://www.vecernji.hr/enciklopedija/marin-soljacic-18428|title=Marin Soljačić|date=December 1, 2016|work=vecernji.hr|language=hr|accessdate=2017-07-04}}
| notable_students = Prineha Narang
| known_for = WiTricity, Nonlinear optics, Nanophotonics, AI
| awards = Adolph Lomb Medal (2005)
TR35 (2006)
MacArthur Fellowship (2008){{cite web | url=http://www.macfound.org/site/c.lkLXJ8MQKrH/b.4537289/ | title=2008 MacArthur Fellows: Marin Soljačić | work=macfound.org | publisher=John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation | date=September 2008 | accessdate=2010-05-22 | url-status=dead | archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100619111514/http://www.macfound.org/site/c.lkLXJ8MQKrH/b.4537289/ | archivedate=2010-06-19 }}
Blavatnik Award for Young Scientists (2014){{Cite web |url=https://finance.yahoo.com/news/blavatnik-national-awards-young-scientists-120000302.html |title=Blavatnik National Awards for Young Scientists Announce 2014 National Laureates - Yahoo Finance |access-date=2017-01-17 |archive-date=2014-08-12 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140812191915/http://finance.yahoo.com/news/blavatnik-national-awards-young-scientists-120000302.html |url-status=dead }}
Max Born Award (2023)
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Marin Soljačić (born February 7, 1974) is a Croatian-American physicist and electrical engineer and Cecil and Ida Green Professor at physics department, MIT.
Biography
Marin Soljačić was born in Zagreb in 1974. After graduating from XV Gymnasium (MIOC) in Zagreb he attended MIT, where he got his BSc in physics and electrical engineering in 1996.[https://www.mit.edu/~soljacic MIT home page] 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.{{Cite web|url=https://www.mit.edu/~soljacic|title=Marin Soljačić, Professor of Physics|website=www.mit.edu/~soljacic}} In 2008, he was awarded a MacArthur "genius" Fellowship.{{Cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/22/AR2008092203309.html?hpid%3Dtopnews&sub=AR|title=For Hopkins Astronomer And 24 Others, The Stars Align|newspaper=The Washington Post}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/sep08/6795|title=IEEE Spectrum report|access-date=2008-09-24|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081103041744/http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/sep08/6795|archive-date=2008-11-03|url-status=dead}} In 2014, he was awarded Blavatnik National Award, and in 2023 Max Born award of Optica.
Work
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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% efficient. Professor Soljačić's experiments and work in wireless energy transfer are related in spirit to the work of Nikola Tesla in the early 20th century, but also have significant differences: unlike Tesla's long-range wireless energy transfer in Colorado, the Soljačić group focuses only on short-range transfer, and unlike Tesla coils which resonantly transfer power with electric fields (which couple strongly to surrounding matter, most famously inducing artificial lightning) the Soljačić proposal uses coupling primarily via magnetic fields.{{cite journal | first1=André | last1=Kurs | first2=Aristeidis | last2=Karalis |first3=Robert | last3=Moffat | first4=J. D. | last4=Joannopoulos | first5=Peter | last5=Fisher | first6=Marin | last6=Soljačić | title=Wireless power transfer via strongly coupled magnetic resonances | journal=Science | volume=317 | issue=5834 | pages=83–86 | year=2007 | doi=10.1126/science.1143254 | pmid=17556549|bibcode = 2007Sci...317...83K | citeseerx=10.1.1.418.9645 | s2cid=17105396 }} This work is currently being pursued in Soljačić's WiTricity company.
In addition to wireless energy transfer, Prof. Soljačić works on numerous problems on electromagnetism {{cite journal |last1=Soljačić |first1=Marin |last2=Lidorikis |first2=Elefterios |last3=Joannopoulos |first3=J. D. |last4=Hau |first4=Lene Vestergaard |author4-link=Lene Hau |title=Ultralow-power all-optical switching |journal=Applied Physics Letters |date=25 April 2005 |volume=86 |issue=17 |pages=171101 |doi=10.1063/1.1900956|arxiv=physics/0406001 |bibcode=2005ApPhL..86q1101S |s2cid=2742135 |url=https://arxiv.org/ftp/physics/papers/0406/0406001.pdf}} in materials structured on the scale of the wavelength, such as micro- and nano-structured materials for infrared and visible light, including nonlinear optical devices and surface plasmons.
References
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External links
- [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8165928.stm BBC article] explaining non-radiative power transfer
- [http://www.ted.com/talks/view/lang/en//id/619 TED presentation on technology application]
- {{Google Scholar|jpqAJIMAAAAJ}}
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Category:21st-century American physicists
Category:Croatian emigrants to the United States
Category:MIT School of Engineering alumni
Category:Massachusetts Institute of Technology School of Science faculty
Category:Scientists from Zagreb
Category:21st-century Croatian scientists
Category:Massachusetts Institute of Technology School of Science alumni