Tomás Palacios (engineer)

Tomás A. Palacios Gutiérrez (born 1978) is a Spanish–American Electrical & Microelectronics Engineer known for his work in advanced device and material design.

He then did a doctoral degree there which he defended in 2006,[9] under supervisor Umesh Mishra, with his dissertation titled Optimization of the high frequency performance of nitride-based transistors.

He then did a doctoral degree there which he defended in 2006,[11] under supervisor Umesh Mishra, with his dissertation titled Optimization of the high frequency performance of nitride-based transistors.

[12] After finishing his doctorate, Palacios joined the MIT Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department as an associate professor in 2006.

He created this super-thin, bendy material of molybdenum disulfide (MoS2) that absorb wireless internet and other electromagnetic waves in the air and turns them into electricity.