US 12,232,158 B2
Reconfigurable metamaterial surface for mmWAVE networks
Kyle Jamieson, Princeton, NJ (US); Kun Woo Cho, Princeton, NJ (US); Mohammad Mazaheri, Waterloo (CA); Jeremy Gummeson, Belchertown, MA (US); and Omid Salehi-Abari, Los Angeles, CA (US)
Assigned to The Trustees of Princeton University, Princeton, NJ (US); and University of Massachusetts, Hadley, MA (US)
Filed by The Trustees of Princeton University, Princeton, NJ (US); University of Massachusetts, Hadley, MA (US); Mohammad Mazaheri, Waterloo (CA); and Omid Salehi-Abari, Los Angeles, CA (US)
Filed on Mar. 31, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/710,772.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/168,703, filed on Mar. 31, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0330259 A1, Oct. 13, 2022
Int. Cl. H04W 72/04 (2023.01); H04B 17/13 (2015.01); H04B 17/391 (2015.01); H04W 72/044 (2023.01); H04W 72/0453 (2023.01); H04W 72/542 (2023.01)
CPC H04W 72/542 (2023.01) [H04B 17/13 (2015.01); H04B 17/391 (2015.01); H04W 72/0453 (2013.01); H04W 72/046 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A system for transforming an incident high frequency wave, the system comprising:
a plurality of meta-atom pairs coupled to define a surface, wherein:
each meta-atom pair of the plurality is comprised of a magnetic meta-atom and an electric meta-atom separated by a dielectric substrate, the magnetic meta-atom and the electric meta-atom configured to have a resonant frequency;
each meta-atom pair of the plurality is configured to generate an electro-magnetic response by interacting with an incident high frequency wave, the generated electro-magnetic response being dependent on a voltage applied to each meta-atom pair; and
the generated electro-magnetic response is configured to transform the incident high frequency wave, having a frequency matching the resonant frequency, received at the defined surface into an emitted wave from the defined surface.