A comparative study of the biological effects of various mobile phone and wireless LAN antennas

Author

Yioultsis, T.V. ; Kosmanis, T.I. ; Kosmidou, E.P. ; Zygiridis, T.T. ; Kantartzis, N.V. ; Xenos, T.D. ; Tsiboukis, T.D.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Aristotle Univ., Thessaloniki, Greece

Volume

38

Issue

2

fYear

2002

fDate

3/1/2002 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

777

Lastpage

780

Abstract

This paper presents a comprehensive electromagnetic and thermal analysis of radiation and its impact on human beings, due to the use of various types of commonly used mobile phones and communication antennas. This is one of the first studies that deals with a wide-range comparative investigation of modern cell phones, unlike the majority of existing work, which do not extend beyond the obsolete generic phone case. The rather severe, although overlooked, case of wireless local area network antennas is also considered, due to their increasing use and the large times of exposure associated with them

Keywords

biological effects of radiation; cellular radio; finite difference time-domain analysis; mobile antennas; wireless LAN; FDTD model; biological effects; cell phone; communication system; electromagnetic radiation; human body; mobile phone antenna; numerical method; thermal analysis; wireless LAN antenna; Biological system modeling; Cellular phones; Computational modeling; Electromagnetic radiation; Finite difference methods; Helical antennas; Humans; Mobile antennas; Mobile handsets; Wireless LAN;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Magnetics, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9464

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/20.996201

Filename

996201