Biological effect of SAR on the human head due to variation of dielectric properties at 1800 and 2450 MHz with different antenna substrate materials

Abstract The aim of this study was to consider a possible discrepancy in electromagnetic (EM) absorption in the human head. The finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) method with the lossy Drude model was adopted in this study. Here, the permittivity and conductivity of all head tissues were increased from 10% to 20% except when not using the same exposure conditions. Recognizable mobile phone frequencies of 1800 and 2450 MHz were studied in this simulation. The increase of up to 20% in conductivity and permittivity and varied substrate material always caused an EM absorption variation of 32.59% for specific absorption rate (SAR) 1 g and 35.25% for SAR 10 g at 1800 MHz, and variation of 20.37% for SAR 1 g and 17.99% for SAR 10 g at 2450 MHz, respectively.