The proposed MS is designed using the commercially available ANSYS High Frequency Structure Simulator, ANSYS-HFSS48. A single-sided MS was simulated and an initial optimization was carried out to obtain the optimum transmission and reflection values. A prototype of the optimized MS was fabricated based on these optimized values and was tested to verify its operation. The effective medium parameters of the MS were also extracted from the MS S-parameters using MATLAB49 and the method described in ref.50. To demonstrate the WAIM capability of this MS across a wide frequency range, it is then integrated with a tightly coupled antenna array (TCAA) in an HFSS model for a final optimization. The antenna array consists of a set of tightly coupled dipole antennas39 with less than 0.4 λ spacing between them.