Threshold power of canonical antennas for inducing SAR at compliance limits in the 300-3000 MHz frequency range

IEEE Transactions on Electromagnetic Compatibility

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 143-152

  Ali, Mohammod ^a   Douglas, Mark G ^b   Sayem, Abu T M ^a   Faraone, Antonio ^b   Chou, Chung Kwang ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b MOTOROLA INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Antennas; Electromagnetic fields; Electromagnetic propagation in absorbing media; Finite difference methods; Moment methods

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE ABSORPTION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; METHOD OF MOMENTS;

CANONICAL ANTENNAS; EXPOSURE LIMITS; RADIO FREQUENCY; SPECIFIC ABSORPTION RATE;

ANTENNAS;

EID: 33947591847     PISSN: 00189375     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TEMC.2006.888178     Document Type: Article

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