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Electromagnetic Field (EMF) is defined as a physical field produced by electrically charged objects. Nowadays there is an extensive concern about the EMF radiation effects towards human body. In this paper, the effect of EMF radiation is studied using a single dipole and 5 × 5 array dipole antennas. The proposed antenna is designed and simulated by using FEKO software. Results and discussions are explored to scrutinize the EMF performance of the antenna particularly on the distance and the frequency of the antenna with respect to the human body. Subsequently, the results of the SAR and power density at various frequency and distance are presented. It is shown that SAR and power density increases as the frequency increases at a fixed distance. The result of power density for the array antenna at different distances is also presented.
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The authors would like to express utmost gratitude to the Ministry of Higher Education (MOHE) in Malaysia and Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM) for providing the financial support for this research through the HiCOE grant (R.J130000.7809.4J209). The grant is managed by Research Management Centre (RMC) at UTM.
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Ibrahim, N.A., Abd Rahman, T., Elijah, O. (2017). EMF Radiation Effects from 5 × 5 Dipole Array Antenna Towards Human Body for 5G Communication. In: Mohamed Ali, M., Wahid, H., Mohd Subha, N., Sahlan, S., Md. Yunus, M., Wahap, A. (eds) Modeling, Design and Simulation of Systems. AsiaSim 2017. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 751. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-6463-0_41
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