About Marin Soljacic

Marin Soljacic was the leader of the team of researches from MIT who had found out a means of transmitting electricity to electrical gadgets without using any wires. He was basically an Assistant Professor of Physics since September 2005 who has a BsE degree in physics and electrical engineering from MIT in the year 1996. After this, he had earned his PhD in physics from the Princeton University in the year 2000.

It was in September 2000 that he was named an MIT Pappalardo Fellow in Physics and in the year 2003, he was appointed the Principal Research Scientist in the for the Research Laboratory of Electronics at MIT in the year 2003. He was also awarded the Adolph Lomb medal from the Optical Society of America in the year 2005.
It was basically his interests in exploring new and exciting concepts in physical phenomena that led him to experiment with the concept of wireless electricity. With this, he said that witricity would eventually replace power cables in the same way mobile and cordless phones have replaced landlines today.
Professor Soljacic basically turned to the concept of resonance to create witricity where there is efficient transmission of energy between the two objects that tend to resonate at the same frequency. The typical witricity system has two copper coils where one sends power and the other receives it. This concept worked efficiently and automatically where there is no necessity of having a clear line of sight in between the transmitter and electronic appliance. All that is needed for witricity is a source of wireless power which charges automatically without needing any plugging in.