The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Committee on Man and Radiation (COMAR) recognizes that there is public concern about the safety of exposure to the radio frequency (RF) and microwave (MW) fields from hand-held, portable, and mobile cellular telephones. Several national and international organizations have established guidelines for human exposure to radio frequency e...

The Committee on Man and Radiation (COMAR) is a technical committee of the Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS) of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). Its primary area of interest is biological effects of non-ionizing electromagnetic radiation, including radiofrequency (RF) energy. The public interest in possible health effects attributed to RF energy, su...

1 Institute of Cytology, RAS, Tikhoretski ave. 4, Saint-Petersburg, RF, 194064 2 Institute of Physics, Nanotechnology and Telecommunications, NRU Peter the Great St.Petersburg Polytechnic University, Polytechnicheskaya 29, Saint-Petersburg, RF, 195251 3 Department of Molecular and Radiation Biophysics, National Research Centre ”Kurchatov Institute” B.P. Konstantinov Petersburg Nuclear Physics I...

RF ionization rates for mixtures of air with bariurn are computed using a Fokker-Planck code. It is shown that there is an optimum mixing ratio of barium to air, significantly ower than unity, which maximizes the ionization rate for a given value of incident RF power density and frequency. Rocket injection of barium at a selected height reduces ignificant/y the RF breakdown threshold for the mi...

Wide concerns have been raised that the use of cell phones could increase brain tumors. This paper systematically reviews the scientific evidence regarding the associations between cell phone use and brain tumors. The authors’ review suggests two conclusions. First, it is still controversial in regard with the significant associations between cell phone use and increased risk of brain tumors. S...

BACKGROUND Over the past few years, the rapid use of high frequency electromagnetic fields like mobile phones has raised global concerns about the negative health effects of its use. Adaptive response is the ability of a cell or tissue to better resist stress damage by prior exposure to a lesser amount of stress. This study aimed to assess whether radiofrequency radiation can induce adaptive re...

For powering wireless sensors in buildings, rechargeable batteries may be used. These batteries will be recharged remotely by dedicated RF sources. Far-field RF energy transport is known to suffer from path loss and therefore the RF power available on the rectifying antenna or rectenna will be very low. As a consequence, the RF-toDC conversion efficiency of the rectenna will also be very low. B...

The Advanced Photon Source (APS) is a 7-GeV full energy positron storage ring for generating synchrotron radiation with an injector. The booster synchrotron rf system consists of a single 1-MW klystron which drives four five-cell cavities at 352 MHz. The storage ring cavities consist of four groups of four single cells powered by two 1-MW klystrons for 100-mA operation. An overview of the opera...