Ethnicity- and Gender-Specific Electromagnetic Power Absorption in Skin Tissues Across 5G/6G Frequencies

This investigation involves the modelling of skin probes in four different anatomical body regions (abdomen AB, back BC, breast BR, forehead FH) of both genders (male and female) from three ethnic groups (Chinese CH, Korean KR and Turkish TR). Twenty-four different skin probes were modeled by using five different homogeneous skin tissue layers, namely stratum corneum (SC), viable epidermis (E), dermis (D), hypodermis (H) and muscle tissue (M), and comprehensive analyses were performed by exposed to electromagnetic (EM) plane waves in the 5G/6G frequency band (1-300 GHz) using Finite Element Method (FEM) based COMSOL Multiphysics simulation software. The results provide detailed data on the EM power absorbed in each tissue layer (together with the correlated penetration depths of the EM fields in the skin probes) and demonstrate ethnicity- and gender-specific differences in the absorbed power.