Below is a curated selection of the 25 most-read articles of 2025. These articles were the ones that truly captured our readers’ attention throughout the year.
To encourage broader engagement, all 25 articles will be available as open access until the end of February 2026. We invite you to take advantage of this opportunity and explore the research that generated the greatest impact and attention. The articles are listed below, in descending order, starting from the most read article.
- Dual Circularly Polarized Metasurface Antenna Based on Inward and Outward Surface Wave Duplexing
R. Thanikonda, M. Faenzi, A. Toccafondi, E. Martini and S. Maci | vol. 73, no. 5, pp. 2700–2712, May 2025 - Broadband H-Plane Horn Antenna Design Based on Ridge Gap Waveguide
M. Khalily, A. Mallahzadeh, S. Danesh, E. Rajo-Iglesias, R. Tafazolli and A. A. Kishk | vol. 73, no. 6, pp. 3434–3443, June 2025 - An Ultrawideband Quad-Mode SIW Cavity-Backed Slot Antenna for NextG Communication and Sensing Arrays
A. V. Muppala and K. Sarabandi | vol. 73, no. 6, pp. 3605–3615, June 2025 - Low-Profile Dual-Band Dual-Polarized Aperture-Shared Antenna Array Using Bifunctional Metasurface
P. Du, Y. Cao, W. Che and Q. Xue | vol. 73, no. 7, pp. 4274–4285, July 2025 - Antenna Technologies for 6G – Advances and Challenges
Y. Jay Guo, C. A. Guo, M. Li and M. Latva-aho | Early Access - Modeling RIS From Electromagnetic Principles to Communication Systems—Part II: System-Level Simulation, Ray Tracing, and Measurements
A. V. Muppala and K. Sarabandi | vol. 73, no. 6, pp. 3605–3615, June 2025 - A Wideband Dual-Circularly Polarized Transmitarray Antenna Based on Magnetoelectric Dipole Elements and Source
S. Gao and H. Wong | vol. 73, no. 6, pp. 3537–3546, June 2025 - K-/Ka-Band Shared-Aperture Integrated Phased Array for Satellite Ground Terminals
K. Li, D. Zhao, Z. Chen, S. Jiang, X. Wang and X. You | vol. 73, no. 8, pp. 5548–5558, Aug. 2025 - Dual-Band Circularly Polarized Shared-Aperture Vivaldi MIMO Antenna With Linear-to-Circular Polarizer for 5G and 6G Communication
R. Wang, M. Ikram, Y. Yu, H. Zhang and A. Shamim | vol. 73, no. 7, pp. 4300–4310, July 2025 - Maximizing Independent Channels and Efficiency in BTS Array Antennas via EM Degrees of Freedom
F. Puggelli, B. Biscontini, E. Martini and S. Maci | vol. 73, no. 6, pp. 3444–3458, June 2025 - A Single-Layer Wideband Composite Metasurface Consists of Ka-Band Reflectarray and Wide-Angle Scanning X-Band Phased Array
Y. Su, M. Li, Y. Yang, W. Zhang, H. Xie, Y. Fan and X. Lin | vol. 73, no. 6, pp. 3459–3469, June 2025 - 3D-Printed All-Metal Modular Low-Profile Ultrawideband Tightly Coupled Dipole Arrays
X. Wu, F. Yang, K. Chen, Y. Chen, J. Hu and S. Yang | vol. 73, no. 6, pp. 3616–3627, June 2025 - Dual-Band Shared-Aperture Antenna Hybridizing Patch and Transmitarray With Large Frequency Ratio and Wideband Characteristics
Z. L. Ma, Y. Tang, Q. Xue, W. Che and K. Xu Wang | vol. 73, no. 4, pp. 2485–2496, April 2025 - Low-Profile Magneto-Electric Dipole Antenna With Capacitively Loaded Loop and Stub-Added Notch
H. Wang, Y. Bae Park and I. Park | vol. 73, no. 8, pp. 6163–6168, Aug. 2025 - A Reconfigurable Transmit-Reflect-Array Antenna With Arbitrary Variable Transmit-Reflect Function and Continuous Adjustable Power Ratio
C. Zhang, Y. Luo, N. Yan, K. Ma and Z.-C. Hao | vol. 73, no. 8, pp. 5610–5622, Aug. 2025 - A Wideband Dual-Circularly Polarized Luneburg Lens Multibeam Antenna Feed by Dual-Linearly Polarized ME-Dipole Antennas
Z. Wang, Q. Tan, D. Yang, K. Fan, W. Yu, L. Liu and G. Q. Luo | vol. 73, no. 5, pp. 2804–2813, May 2025 - Efficiency Analysis of Parasitic Common and Differential Modes for Ultrathin Circularly Polarized Microstrip Antenna
M. Hu, Y. Li, Y. Zhang, X. Liu, P. Wu and H. Wang | vol. 73, no. 5, pp. 2908–2917, May 2025 - Low-Frequency Sub-0.5 mm Magnetoelectric Antenna for Wireless Power Harvesting in Injectable Deep-Tissue Implants
Y. Cai, B. C. Joy, B. X. E. Desbiolles, V. Schell, S. Yadav, D. C. Bono and D. Sarkar | vol. 73, no. 10, pp. 7134–7146, Oct. 2025 - RCS Reconfiguration of an Antenna Array Based on the 1-bit Reconfigurable Load Impedance
B. Zhang, F. Yang, S. Xu and C. Jin | vol. 73, no. 5, pp. 2918–2926, May 2025 - Beam-Steering Array Antenna Fed by an Azimuthally Inhomogeneous Radial Waveguide
J. I. Herranz-Herruzo, A. Valero-Nogueira, M. Ferrando-Rocher and F. Vico | vol. 73, no. 10, pp. 7872–7884, Oct. 2025 - Wideband RCS Reduction of Dual-Band Fabry-Perot Cavity Antenna Using Pancharatnam-Berry Phase Coding Metasurface and AMC Surface
L. Xu, Y. Liu and W. Zhang | vol. 73, no. 6, pp. 4158–4163, June 2025 - TE–TM Balanced Wide-Angle Metacells for Low Scan-Loss Metalens Antenna Using Prior Knowledge-Guided Generative Deep Learning-Enabled Method
Y. Lyu, T. H. Gan and Z. N. Chen | vol. 73, no. 5, pp. 2940–2949, May 2025 - From Curved to Planar: Enabling Large-Spacing Phased Array Antenna to Achieve Grating-Lobe-Free Wide-Angle Scanning
Y. Wan, S. Liao, Y. Wang, L. Li, J. Wei, W. Che and Q. Xue | vol. 73, no. 5, pp. 2990–3003, May 2025 - Design of Decoupling and Pattern Shaping Surface for MIMO Antennas Using the Multiport Optimization Method
M. Li, Y. He, C. Zhou, Y. Zhang and D. Wu | vol. 73, no. 5, pp. 2927–2939, May 2025 - Design of Sparse Antenna Arrays Using the Physics-Aware Generative Adversarial Network
C. Wang, Y. Zhang, S. Gao and W. Liu | vol. 73, no. 9, pp. 6311–6325, Sept. 2025