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US 12,683,287 · App. 18/913,945 · Granted Jul 14, 2026

3D printed reflecting surface for millimeter-wave coverage expansion

Inventors: Xinyu Zhang (San Diego, CA); Kun Qian (San Diego, CA); Tse Nga Ng (San Diego, CA); Lulu Yao (San Diego, CA)
Assignee: The Regents of the University of California
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Patent No.
US 12,683,287
App. No.
18/913,945
Filed
Oct 11, 2024
Granted
Jul 14, 2026
Kind
B2
Art Unit
2845
USPC
343/912
Abstract

In some embodiments, there is provided an apparatus for reflecting at least one millimeter wave beam, the apparatus includes a metasurface configured with a plurality of metal-backed dielectric cuboids, wherein each of the metal-backed dielectric cuboids includes a dielectric material having a first surface of the dielectric material and an opposite, second surface of the dielectric material, wherein the first surface of the dielectric material is in a same plane as the second surface of the dielectric material, wherein the dielectric material comprises a cuboid defined at least by a width and a thickness, and a metal layer having a first surface of the metal layer and an opposite second surface of the metal layer, wherein the second surface of the dielectric material is disposed on the first surface of the metal layer.

Claims (24)

1 . An apparatus for reflecting at least one millimeter wave beam comprising:

a metasurface configured with a plurality of metal-backed dielectric cuboids, wherein each of the metal-backed dielectric cuboids comprise:

a dielectric material having a first surface of the dielectric material and an opposite, second surface of the dielectric material, wherein the first surface of the dielectric material is in a same plane as the second surface of the dielectric material, wherein the dielectric material comprises a cuboid defined at least by a width and a thickness, and

a metal layer having a first surface of the metal layer and an opposite second surface of the metal layer, wherein the second surface of the dielectric material is disposed on the first surface of the metal layer.

2 . The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the thickness of the metal-backed dielectric cuboid is in a range of 0.4 millimeters to 4.3 millimeters.

3 . The apparatus of claim 2 , wherein the thickness configures an amount of phase shift provided by the metal-backed dielectric cuboid to at least one millimeter wave beam incident on the first surface of the of the dielectric material.

4 . The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the width of the metal-backed dielectric cuboid is in a range of 0.9 millimeters to 3.1 millimeters.

5 . The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein at least one millimeter wave beam is received from a cellular base station and reflected, by the apparatus, towards a user equipment.

6 . The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the first surface of the metal layer and the second surface of the metal layer are flat.

7 . The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the metasurface comprising the first surface of the metal layer and the second surface of the metal layer are flat.

8 . The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the metasurface comprising the first surface of the dielectric material is configured with different thicknesses to provide different phase shifts to generate a reflected output beam pattern.

9 . The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the apparatus is located in a far field of at least one base station transmitting towards at least one user equipment to reflect at least one millimeter wave beam.

10 . The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein a plurality of apparatus are located in a far field of at least one base station to each reflect at least one millimeter wave beams towards at least one user equipment to improve coverage area associated with at least one base station.

11 . The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the thickness of the dielectric material is determined based on a phase shift, wherein the phase shift is determined before manufacture of the apparatus using a closed-form model that solves for an objective reflective beam pattern.

12 . The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the thickness configures an amount of phase shift provided to at least one millimeter wave beam incident on the first surface of the dielectric material.

13 . The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the second surface of the dielectric material is disposed on a bonding layer that is disposed on the first surface of the metal layer.

14 . The apparatus of claim 13 , wherein the bonding layer comprises a chromium layer.

15 . The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the metal-backed dielectric cuboids comprises square faces and/or rectangular faces.

16 . The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the thickness of a cuboid is determined using a closed form-model of the metasurface configured with the plurality of metal-backed dielectric cuboids, the closed-form model based on a phase error of each of the plurality of metal-backed dielectric cuboids, wherein each phase error maps to a thickness of each of the plurality of metal-backed dielectric cuboids.

17 . The apparatus of claim 16 , wherein the closed-form model uses two-orthogonal one-dimensional representations of an objective reflective beam pattern.

18 . The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein at least a portion of the metasurface is manufactured using a printing technology.

19 . A method comprising:

distributing a plurality metasurfaces for reflecting at least one millimeter wave beam, wherein the metasurface is configured with a plurality of metal-backed dielectric cuboids, wherein each of the metal-backed dielectric cuboids comprise a dielectric material having a first surface of the dielectric material and an opposite, second surface of the dielectric material, wherein the first surface of the dielectric material is in a same plane as the second surface of the dielectric material, wherein the dielectric material comprises a cuboid defined at least by a width and a thickness, and a metal layer having a first surface of the metal layer and an opposite second surface of the metal layer, wherein the second surface of the dielectric material is disposed on the first surface of the metal layer; and

reflecting, by at least one of the plurality of metasurfaces, at least one millimeter wave beam from a cellular base station towards a user equipment.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Oct 24, 2024
From: ZHANG, XINYU; QIAN, KUN; NG, TSE NGA; YAO, LULU
To: THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA
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Continuity (2)
Provisional Application 63589543 · Oct 11, 2023
Related Publication 20250125533A1 · Apr 17, 2025
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