11th International Conference on Body Area Networks

Research Article

Design and Calibration of A 60-GHz Personal Exposimeter for Exposure Assessment in Specular and Diffuse Environments

  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.4108/eai.15-12-2016.2267789,
        author={Reza Aminzadeh and Arno Thielens and Abdou Khadir Fall and Haolin Li and Carole Leduc and Maxim Zhadobov and Guy Torfs and Johan Bauwelinck and Luc Martens and Wout Joseph},
        title={Design and Calibration of A 60-GHz Personal Exposimeter for Exposure Assessment in Specular and Diffuse Environments},
        proceedings={11th International Conference on Body Area Networks},
        publisher={ACM},
        proceedings_a={BODYNETS},
        year={2017},
        month={4},
        keywords={personal exposimeter calibration specular diffuse mm-waves exposure},
        doi={10.4108/eai.15-12-2016.2267789}
    }
    
  • Reza Aminzadeh
    Arno Thielens
    Abdou Khadir Fall
    Haolin Li
    Carole Leduc
    Maxim Zhadobov
    Guy Torfs
    Johan Bauwelinck
    Luc Martens
    Wout Joseph
    Year: 2017
    Design and Calibration of A 60-GHz Personal Exposimeter for Exposure Assessment in Specular and Diffuse Environments
    BODYNETS
    EAI
    DOI: 10.4108/eai.15-12-2016.2267789
Reza Aminzadeh1,*, Arno Thielens1, Abdou Khadir Fall2, Haolin Li1, Carole Leduc3, Maxim Zhadobov3, Guy Torfs1, Johan Bauwelinck1, Luc Martens1, Wout Joseph1
  • 1: Department of Information Technology, Ghent University/iMinds
  • 2: Institute of Electronics and Telecommunications of Rennes (IETR), INSA
  • 3: Institute of Electronics and Telecommunications of Rennes (IETR)
*Contact email: reza.aminzadeh@intec.ugent.be

Abstract

For the first time, a personal exposimeter (PE) for 60 GHz radiation measurements is presented. The PE is designed based on numerical simulations, on-phantom and on-body calibration measurements under specular and diffuse exposure to determine the antenna aperture and measurement uncertainty of the PE. A 95% prediction interval of 6.6 dB is obtained for the PE's response using a combination of three nodes with different polarizations. The response of the PE is in the range of 0.7 to 1.2 for specular and diffuse fields.