US 11,916,303 B2
Antenna array having antenna elements interconnected by material for controlling beamforming
Stephen Joseph Kovacic, Newport Beach, CA (US); and Guillaume Alexandre Blin, Carlisle, MA (US)
Assigned to Skyworks Solutions, Inc., Irvine, CA (US)
Filed by Skyworks Solutions, Inc., Irvine, CA (US)
Filed on Apr. 18, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/659,547.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/201,266, filed on Apr. 21, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0344810 A1, Oct. 27, 2022
Int. Cl. H01Q 3/34 (2006.01); H01Q 21/24 (2006.01); H01Q 5/15 (2015.01); H01Q 1/24 (2006.01)
CPC H01Q 3/34 (2013.01) [H01Q 1/246 (2013.01); H01Q 5/15 (2015.01); H01Q 21/245 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A mobile device comprising:
a front-end system including a plurality of radio frequency signal conditioning circuits;
an antenna array including a plurality of controllable antennas each connected to a corresponding one of the plurality of radio frequency signal conditioning circuits, the plurality of controllable antennas including a first controllable antenna including a plurality of antenna elements interconnected by a plurality of material regions, the plurality of material regions including a plurality of graphene regions; and
a control circuit configured to control the plurality of material regions to control an antenna characteristic of the first controllable antenna.