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A pair of parasitic strips is incorporated between adjacent antenna elements to ensure surface current uniformity across a wide frequency range. A high-index semi-arc metasurface (MS) is engineered as a wide-angle impedance matching (WAIM) layer to enhance the scanning performance in both E\u2212 and H-planes without compromising the low-profile form factor. Full-wave simulations demonstrate that the proposed antenna array supports a wide scanning range of up to <jats:inline-formula><mml:math xmlns:mml=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1998\/Math\/MathML\" id=\"m1\"><mml:mrow><mml:mo>\u00b1<\/mml:mo><mml:mn>60<\/mml:mn><mml:mo>\u00b0<\/mml:mo><\/mml:mrow><\/mml:math><\/jats:inline-formula> in both E\u2212 and H-planes over an ultra-wide bandwidth of <jats:inline-formula><mml:math xmlns:mml=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1998\/Math\/MathML\" id=\"m2\"><mml:mrow><mml:mn>12<\/mml:mn><mml:mo>\u2212<\/mml:mo><mml:mn>30<\/mml:mn><\/mml:mrow><\/mml:math><\/jats:inline-formula> GHz at <jats:inline-formula><mml:math xmlns:mml=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1998\/Math\/MathML\" id=\"m3\"><mml:mrow><mml:mi mathvariant=\"normal\">V<\/mml:mi><mml:mi mathvariant=\"normal\">S<\/mml:mi><mml:mi mathvariant=\"normal\">W<\/mml:mi><mml:mi mathvariant=\"normal\">R<\/mml:mi><mml:mo>\u2264<\/mml:mo><mml:mn>2.5<\/mml:mn><\/mml:mrow><\/mml:math><\/jats:inline-formula>. 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