Advanced cloaking metasurfaces for wire antennas

We provide a review of our results on the design of mantle cloaking devices for antenna applications with an emphasis on our recent investigations in designing advanced cloaking metasurfaces. It is shown how such cloaking devices allow increasing the degrees of freedom in the design of conventional antennas with a significant enhancement of their functionalities. Several examples of antennas whose conventional functionalities are enriched using cloaking metasurfaces loaded with electronic circuits are reported, and the most significant applications in view of a new generation of intelligent antennas are discussed