Efficient Electromagnetic Analysis of a Dispersive Head Model Due to Smart Glasses Embedded Antennas at Wi-Fi and 5G Frequencies

Authors

  • Fatih Kaburcuk Department of Electrical-Electronics Engineering Sivas Cumhuriyet University, Sivas 58140, Turkey
  • Atef Z. Elsherbeni Department of Electrical Engineering Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO 80401, United States

Keywords:

5G, dispersive head, FDTD method, SAR, smart glasses, temperature rise, Wi-Fi

Abstract

Numerical study of electromagnetic interaction between an adjacent antenna and a human head model requires long computation time and large computer memory. In this paper, two speeding up techniques for a dispersive algorithm based on finitedifference time-domain method are used to reduce the required computation time and computer memory. In order to evaluate the validity of these two speeding up techniques, specific absorption rate (SAR) and temperature rise distributions in a dispersive human head model due to radiation from an antenna integrated into a pair of smart glasses are investigated. The antenna integrated into the pair of smart glasses have wireless connectivity at 2.4 GHz and 5th generation (5G) cellular connectivity at 4.9 GHz. Two different positions for the antenna integrated into the frame are considered in this investigation. These techniques provide remarkable reduction in computation time and computer memory.

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Author Biographies

Fatih Kaburcuk, Department of Electrical-Electronics Engineering Sivas Cumhuriyet University, Sivas 58140, Turkey

Fatih Kaburcuk received both the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, USA, in 2011 and 2014, respectively, all in Electrical eEgineering. During his graduate studies, he worked as a Research Assistant with Syracuse University and PPC-Belden Inc. in Liverpool, NY, USA. He worked as a Visiting Research Scholar at the Department of Electrical Engineering, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO, USA in 2014. He joined the Erzurum Technical University in 2015 and served as an Assistant Professor until 2019. Since 2020, he has been serving as an Associate Professor with the Department of Electrical-Electronics Engineering, Sivas Cumhuriyet University, Turkey. His research interest includes numerical methods in electromagnetics, biological effect of electromagnetic radiation.

Atef Z. Elsherbeni, Department of Electrical Engineering Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO 80401, United States

Atef Z. Elsherbeni received an honor B.Sc. degree in Electronics and Communications, an honor B.Sc. degree in Applied Physics, and a M.Eng. degree in Electrical Engineering, all from Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt, in 1976, 1979, and 1982, respectively, and a Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from Manitoba University, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, in 1987. He started his engineering career as a part time Software and System Design Engineer from March 1980 to December 1982 at the Automated Data System Center, Cairo, Egypt. From January to August 1987, he was a PostDoctoral Fellow at Manitoba University. Elsherbeni joined the faculty at the University of Mississippi in August 1987 as an Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering. He advanced to the rank of Associate Professor in July 1991, and to the rank of Professor in July 1997. He was the Associate Dean of the college of Engineering for Research and Graduate Programs from July 2009 to July 2013 at the University of Mississippi. He then joined the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) Department at Colorado School of Mines in August 2013 as the Dobelman Distinguished Chair Professor. He was appointed the Interim Department Head for (EECS) from 2015 to 2016 and from 2016 to 2018 he was the Electrical Engineering Department head. In 2009 he was selected as Finland Distinguished Professor by the Academy of Finland and TEKES. Elsherbeni is a Fellow member of IEEE and ACES. He is the Editor-in-Chief for ACES Journal, and a past Associate Editor to the Radio Science Journal. He was the Chair of the Engineering and Physics Division of the Mississippi Academy of Science, the Chair of the Educational Activity Committee for IEEE Region 3 Section, the General Chair for the 2014 APS-URSI Symposium, the President of ACES Society from 2013 to 2015, and the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society (APS) Distinguished Lecturer for 2020-2022.

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2021-02-01

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Fatih Kaburcuk and Atef Z. Elsherbeni, “Efficient Electromagnetic Analysis of a Dispersive Head Model Due to Smart Glasses Embedded Antennas at Wi-Fi and 5G Frequencies”, ACES Journal, vol. 36, no. 2, pp. 159–167, Feb. 2021.

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