An automated SAR measurement system for compliance testing of personal wireless devices

IEEE Transactions on Electromagnetic Compatibility

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 234-245

  Yu, Qishan ^b   Gandhi, Om P ^a,b   Aronsson, Magnus ^a,b   Wu, Ding ^b  

^a IEEE

^b Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

Experimental phantom with lossy ear; Safety compliance testing; Validation against computed SAR

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL RADIATION EFFECTS; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOBILE ANTENNAS; PERSONAL COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; STEPPING MOTORS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; TISSUE; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

PERSONAL WIRELESS DEVICES; SPECIFIC ABSORPTION RATE (SAR);

CELLULAR TELEPHONE SYSTEMS;

EID: 0032646204     PISSN: 00189375     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/15.784158     Document Type: Article

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