Metasurfaces have been widely used to design low-profile antennas, thin absorbers, lenses etc. The operational frequency band of a metasurface is rather narrow due to its resonant nature. Loading metasurface unit cells with non-Foster elements allows for remarkable bandwidth extension. In this paper, design of a broadband metasurface to operate as an artificial magnetic conductor is considered. The main issues which influence the bandwidth extension such as implementation of the non-Foster load, minimization of conversion error of a negative impedance converter, and circuit stabilization are addressed.
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