A graded-mesh FDTD code for the study of human exposure to cellular phones equipped with helical antennas

Applied Computational Electromagnetics Society Newsletter

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 90-96

  Bernardi, P ^a   Cavagnaro, M ^a   Pisa, S ^a   Piuzzi, E ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELLULAR TELEPHONE SYSTEMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIRECTIONAL PATTERNS (ANTENNA); ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE ABSORPTION; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; METHOD OF MOMENTS; RADIATION DAMAGE; TELECOMMUNICATION LINKS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN (FDTD) METHODS;

HELICAL ANTENNAS;

EID: 0035388627     PISSN: 10569170     EISSN: None     Source Type: Trade Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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