Shielding Effectiveness of Some Conductive Textiles and Their Capability to Reduce the Mobile Phones Radiation

An analysis of the shielding effectiveness by the method of dual transversal electromagnetic cell is proposed for a set of conductive materials of the type wire-inserted textiles. Based on the experimental results, some of the materials are further on used to test their capability to effectively reduce the specific absorption rate of energy deposition in the head due to mobile phone, when they are covering the surface of the handset. It is demonstrated that both reducing and increasing the radiation that penetrates the head may appear, and this depends on both the material structure, its position and orientation relative to the device and to the frequency band the phone is emitting.