A low-profile broadband 2 × 2 printed slot array with V-shaped slots by loading broadband artificial magnetic conductor (AMC) is demonstrated. A proposed wideband printed array with tapered V-shaped slots with the feeding of coplanar-waveguide (CPW) is measured in 8.24-11.13 GHz. Also, the proposed wideband planar AMC surface is embedded into the printed array to attain enhanced radiation properties. The printed slot array with the 7 × 7 AMC surface covers -10 dB measured bandwidth from 4.47 to 13.32 GHz (100%). The design loaded by AMC compared to the design without AMC introduces a reduced size of 109.4%, a bandwidth improvement of 70%, and good impedance matching. Moreover, by adding an AMC surface into the printed array, an enhanced gain of 12.3 dBi with uni-directional radiation patterns is attained. The measured gain over the wide bandwidth shows acceptable stability with an average gain of almost 11 dBi. The proposed AMC unit cell is proposed to resonate at 10.10 GHz with a bandwidth of 7.85-12.24 GHz (43.7%) for X-band applications. In addition, the proposed equivalent transmission line model of the antenna with AMC is presented with acceptable output results. This model forecasts the input impedance of the printed array with AMC at the frequency band of 4.50-13.30 GHz as well.
