Comparison of FDTD computed and measured radiation patterns of commercial mobile telephones in presence of the human head

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 46, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 943-944

  Lazzi, Gianluca ^a   Pattnaik, Shyam S ^a   Furse, Cynthia M ^a   Gandhi, Om P ^a  

^a University of Utah   (United States)

Author keywords

Cellular telephones; Dosimetry; FDTD; Mobile antennas; Radiation patterns

Indexed keywords

CALCULATIONS; DIRECTIONAL PATTERNS (ANTENNA); DOSIMETRY; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; HELICAL ANTENNAS; HUMAN FORM MODELS; MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

HUMAN HEAD EFFECT;

CELLULAR TELEPHONE SYSTEMS;

EID: 0032097744     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/8.686784     Document Type: Article

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