Abstract-With increasing interest in millimeter-wave wireless communications, investigations on interactions between the human body and millimeter-wave devices are becoming important. This paper gives examples of today's regulatory requirements, and provides an example for a 60 GHz transceiver. Also, the propagation characteristics of millimeter-waves in the presence of the human body are studied, and four models representing different body parts are considered to evaluate thermal effects of millimeter-wave radiation on the body. Simulation results show that about 34% to 42% of the incident power is reflected at the skin surface at 60 GHz. This paper shows that power density is not suitable to determine exposure compliance when millimeter wave devices are used very close to the body. A temperature-based technique for the evaluation of safety compliance is proposed in this paper. Index Terms-body area networks (BAN), radiation, health effects, millimeter-wave, mmWave heating, RF exposure.
Propagation characteristics at different mmW bands and their thermal effects were investigated for discussion on health effects of RF exposure in mmW radiation REF .
The human body and millimeter-wave wireless communication systems: Interactions and implications
2015 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC)
2015 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC)
Computer Science