Historically, the Electromagnetic Compatibility (EMC) began with the disturbances at the radio navigation systems generated by the electrical power distribution lines; hence it was referred to as Radio Interference (RI). This disturbance is an Electromagnetic Interference (EMI). Although this type of EMI has been studied since the first decades of the past century, it still maintains a continued interest of the researchers, especially with the Corona Discharge (CD), generated by High Voltage Direct Current (HVDC) systems. Because of its design criterion and the concern that this phenomenon may affect the new radio communication systems in the very high frequency (VHF), ultra high frequency (UHF), and microwave bands, interest in their studies continues. In this chapter, an analysis of the electromagnetic spectrum of the CD is presented. The CD is generated at a short transmission line located within a semi-anechoic chamber. To be sure of the phenomenon, the CD is identified by its current pulse, which is well studied. The instruments used are an oscilloscope of 2 GHz and 2 GS/s, a spectrum analyzer, and an EMI test receiver. The results show that the CD concentrates its energy at frequencies below 70 MHz. In the UHF band, only narrowband signals very separated were found, with levels that cannot affect radio communication systems.

This work presents the use of a novel impedance coupling technique and electrical length increase by using stub loading placed from the radiator to the ground plane. This method is applied to the design of a small four-element ultrawideband (UWB) MIMO antenna arranged in axial symmetry to achieve a compact array size while obtaining a bandwidth starting from a very low cutoff frequency compared to a conventional radiator operating at the same frequency. The four-element MIMO antenna, with an operational bandwidth of 1.9 GHz to 30 GHz, is based on a wideband monopole with a semicircular geometry, fed by a coplanar structure and an L-shaped half-ground plane section. To increase the electrical length of the structure and achieve a compact antenna design, reactive stub loading is introduced, placing it on the backside of the substrate, located orthogonally between the radiator and the L-shaped ground plane, obtaining a small-sized configuration. The axial symmetry is employed to increase the antennas’ isolation by taking advantage of the orthogonal positioning and making the radiated fields have a low correlation. The antenna array footprint measures 48 mm × 48 mm, corresponding to 0.3λ₀ × 0.3λ₀ at the lower cutoff frequency. The array exhibits a low envelope correlation coefficient (ECC) of around 0.033 at 2 GHz, and less than 0.001 at the rest of the bandwidth; a diversity gain (DG) of approximately 10; a stable total active reflection coefficient (TARC) below −10 dB; interport isolation between 20 and 40 dB; and an average gain of 2.8 dBi.

This work presents a compact four-port MIMO antenna with each radiator consisting of a conventional two-monopole array fed at a single point by a coplanar line and reactively loaded with a stub. The incorporation of a T-stub-loaded tuning technique significantly improves the radiating element’s impedance, leading to deeper port coupling, a broader bandwidth, and an increased electrical length. Consequently, the operating frequency is substantially lower compared to a standalone radiator. By implementing this configuration with two monopoles of different lengths fed at the same end, an ultra-wideband effect is achieved. By placing four of these stub-loaded monopole arrays in an axial symmetric configuration, a MIMO antenna array is formed. The proposed MIMO array operates from 2.89 GHz to 12 GHz, exhibiting a TARC of less than −10 dB, an ECC of less than 0.002, an average diversity gain of 9.999, and port isolations are within a threshold from −18 dB to −50 dB over the entire bandwidth. The array’s footprint is 32 × 32 mm², equivalent to 0.083${\lambda }_0^2$ at the lower cutoff frequency.

En este trabajo se presenta un análisis de la tasa de absorción especifica (conocida como SAR, por sus siglas en inglés) debida a la exposición de dos fuentes de campo electromagnético en un modelo de cabeza humana; formado por diferentes tejidos. Las fuentes de campo son un modem Wi-Fi y un telefono celular operando ambos a la frecuencia de 2.4 GHz. El campo eléctrico necesario en el cálculo del SAR se obtiene usando una simulación mediante el método de diferencias finitas en el dominio del tiempo (FDTD por sus siglas en inglés). Con el proposito de evaluar como interactua el campo electromagnético con los diferentes tejidos que componen la cabeza humana, especialmente los del cerebro, el SAR es desglosado por tejido y los datos son presentados en diagramas de caja, nueve diferentes tejidos fueron usados en la simulación. Finalmente, utilizando la ecuación de bio-calor en su forma más simple se realiazó un análisis sencillo del incremento de temperatura en cada tejido.