This paper presents new designs, implementation and experiments of metasurface (MTS) antennas constituted by subwavelength elements printed on a grounded dielectric slab. These antennas exploit the interaction between a cylindrical surface wave (SW) wavefront and an anisotropic impedance boundary condition (BC) to produce an almost arbitrary aperture field. They are extremely thin and excited by a simple in-plane monopole. By tailoring the BC through the shaping of the printed elements, these antennas can be largely customized in terms of beam shape, bandwidth and polarization. In this paper, we describe new designs and their implementation and measurements. It is experimentally shown for the first time that these antennas can have aperture efficiency up to 70%, a bandwidth up to 30%, they can produce two different direction beams of high-gain and similar beams at two different frequencies, showing performances never reached before.

An overview about mutual coupling analysis in antenna arrays is given. The relationships between array impedance matrix and embedded element patterns, including beam coupling factors, are reviewed while considering general‐type antennas; approximations resulting from single‐mode assumptions are pointed out. For regular arrays, a common Fourier‐based formalism is employed, with the array scanning method as a key tool, to explain various phenomena and analysis methods. Relationships between finite and infinite arrays are described at the physical level, as well as from the point of view of numerical analysis, considering mainly the method of moments. Noise coupling is also briefly reviewed.

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