Communication apparatus and method for adaptive cooling of antenna elements

A communication apparatus, comprising:

• an array of temperature sensors;
• an antenna array comprising a plurality of chips in a specific arrangement to form a plurality of antenna elements;
• a plurality of thermoelectric devices distributed across the plurality of antenna elements, wherein each thermoelectric device of the plurality of thermoelectric devices covers a different subset of a plurality of subsets of the plurality of antenna elements;
• and
• a processor coupled to the antenna array and the plurality of thermoelectric devices, wherein the processor is configured to:
• measure, by the array of temperature sensors, a temperature of each chip of the plurality of chips of the antenna array;
• and
• control each of the plurality of thermoelectric devices,
• wherein the control of each of the plurality of thermoelectric devices comprises a change in a voltage input to one or more thermoelectric devices of the plurality of thermoelectric devices to cause a corresponding change in a temperature of the plurality of thermoelectric devices, and
• the corresponding change is caused to apply adaptive cooling on different subsets of the plurality of subsets of the plurality of antenna elements based on the measured temperature from the array of temperature sensors.