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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 08, 2026
Filed:
Mar. 07, 2024
Dell Products L.p., Round Rock, TX (US);
Tejinder Singh, Kanata, CA;
Navjot Kaur Khaira, Kanata, CA;
DELL PRODUCTS L.P., Round Rock, TX (US);
Abstract
The technology described herein is directed towards a reconfigurable surface device that reflects an impinging electromagnetic signal, with a phase profile determined by curvature and vertical positioning of a flexible metallic ground plane beneath metallic resonating elements of the reconfigurable surface. The amount of curvature and vertical positioning forms different gaps between portions of the flexible ground plane and the respective metallic resonating elements above those portions, to determine the shape and direction of the reflected beam. In one implementation, four individually linear actuators and four vertical motors are mechanically coupled to the corners of the ground plane of a metasurface (panel). These actuators and motors are controlled to establish the phase profile, by determining the amount of curvature and vertical positioning of the flexible ground pane to shape and/or steer the reflected beam. The low-cost design can operate to shape and steer millimeter wavelength beams in wireless communication scenarios.