Eleftherios “Terry” Gdoutos, Ph.D.
Principal Research Scientist
egdoutos@caltech.edu
Dr. Terry Gdoutos studies and develops novel technologies for deployable solar arrays, antennas, and integrated sunlight collection and power beaming arrays, enabling spacecraft to collect solar energy in space and wirelessly beam it to Earth, the Moon or other planets. He is currently leading a multi-disciplinary team of research scientists, engineers, and graduate students on the design, procurement, fabrication, and integration and testing activities for the development of DOLCE, an on-orbit 50 kg technology demonstration of an ultralight deployable structure and deployment mechanism for space-based power stations in Caltech’s Space Solar Power Project.
Previously, Dr. Gdoutos along with a multi-disciplinary team of postdocs and graduate students demonstrated the lightest by a factor of 10 experimentally validated prototype integrating solar power collection and wireless transmission.
Dr. Gdoutos’s expertise includes the analysis, design, construction, and testing of deployable structures with ultralight carbon fiber reinforced plastic (CFRP) components. Dr. Gdoutos also has experience in failure analysis and lifetime assessment of complex thermomechanical systems in rail, mining, and chemical processing. He completed his Ph.D. in Aeronautics at Caltech in 2013 and holds Bachelor of Science degrees from Northwestern University in Mechanical Engineering and Computer Science.
Publications:
E. Gdoutos, A. Truong, A. Pedivellano, F. Royer, S. Pellegrino, Ultralight Deployable Space Structure Prototype, AIAA SciTech 2020
E.C. Warmann, P. Espinet-Gonzalez, N. Vaidya, S. Loke, A. Naqavi, T. Vinogradova, M. Kelzenberg, C. Leclerc, E. Gdoutos, S. Pellegrino, H.A. Atwater, An ultralight concentrator photovoltaic system for space solar power harvesting, Acta Astronautica 2020
L. Wilson, E.E. Gdoutos, S. Pellegrino, Tension-Stabilized Coiling of Isotropic Tape Springs, International Journal of Solids and Structures 2020
A. Pedivellano, E. Gdoutos, S. Pellegrino, Sequentially controlled dynamic deployment of ultra-thin shell structures, AIAA SciTech Forum 2020
M.R. Hashemi, A.C. Fikes, M. Gal-Katziri, B. Abiri, F. Bohn, A. Safaripour, M.D. Kelzenberg, E.L. Warmann, P. Espinet, N. Vaidya, E. E. Gdoutos, C. Leclerc, F. Royer, S. Pellegrino, H.A. Atwater, A. Hajimiri, A flexible phased array system with low areal mass density, Nature Eletronics 2019
E. Gdoutos, C. Leclerc, F. Royer, D.A. Turk, S. Pellegrino, Ultralight spacecraft structure prototype, AIAA SciTech Forum 2019
M.D. Kelzenberg, P. Espinet-Gonzalez, N. Vaidya, E.C. Warmann, A. Naqavi, S. Loke, P. Saive, T.A. Roy, T.G. Vinogradova, C. Leclerc, E.E. Gdoutos, F. Royer, A. Fikes, F. Bohn, B. Abiri, M.R. Hashemi, M. Gal-Katziri, A. Hajimiri, S. Pellegrino, H.A. Atwater, Ultralight Energy Converter Tile for the Space Solar Power Initiative, IEEE 7th World Conference on Photovoltaic Energy Conversion 2018
E. Gdoutos, C. Leclerc, F. Royer, M.D. Kelzenberg, E.C. Warmann, P. Espinet-Gonzalez, N. Vaidya, F. Bohn, B. Abiri, M.R. Hashemi, M. Gal-Katziri, A. Fikes, H. Atwater, A. Hajimiri, S. Pellegrino, A lightweight tile structure integrating photovoltaic conversion and RF power transfer for space solar power applications, AIAA Spacecraft Structures Conference 2018
M.D. Kelzenberg, P. Espinet-Gonzalez, N. Vaidya, T.A. Roy, E.C. Warmann, A. Naqavi, S. Loke, J. Huang, T.G. Vinogradova, A.J. Messer, C. Leclerc, E.E. Gdoutos, F. Royer, A. Hajimiri, S. Pellegrino, H.A. Atwater, Design and Prototypeing Efforts for the Space Solar Power Initiative, IEEE 44th Photovoltaic Specialist Conference 2017
N. Yamamoto, E. Gdoutos, R. Toda, V. White, H. Manohara, C. Daraio, Thin Films with Ultra-low Thermal Expansion, Advanced Materials 2014
N. Yamamoto, E. Gdoutos, C. Daraio, Fabrication and Characterization of Bi-metallic, Structured Films with Ultra-Low Thermal Expansion, Experimental Mechanics of Composite, Hybrid, and Multifunctional Materials, Volume 6 pp 85-88, 2013
N. Yamamoto, E. Gdoutos, C. Daraio, Thermal and Mechanical Properties of Structured Thin Films with Tunable, Ultra-low Thermal Expansion, VI International Conference on Textile Composites and Inflatable Structures – Structural Membranes, 2013
N. Yamamoto, E. Gdoutos, C. Daraio, Engineered thin films with ultra-low thermal expansion coefficient for deployable or deformable space structures, 54th AIAA/ASME/ASCE/AHS/ASC Structures, Structural Dynamics, and Materials Conference, 2013
R. Toda, V.E. White, H. Manohara, K.D. Patterson, N. Yamamoto, E. Gdoutos, J.B. Steeves, C. Daraio, S. Pellegrino, Fabrication Methods for Adaptive Deformable Mirrors, NASA Tech Briefs 2013
E. Gdoutos, A.A. Shapiro, C. Daraio, Thin and Thermally Stable Periodic Metastructures, Experimental Mechanics 2013
E. Gdoutos, R. Agrawal, H. Espinosa, Comparison of the Ewald and Wolf methods for Modeling Electrostatic Interactions in Nanowires, Int. J. of Numerical Methods in Eng. 2010 (36 citations)
R. Agrawal, B. Peng, E. Gdoutos, H.D. Espinosa, Elasticity Size Effects in ZnO Nanowires – a Combined Experimental-Computational Approach, Nano Letters 2008
Patents:
S. Pellegrino, E.E. Gdoutos, A. Pedivellano; Actively Controlled Spacecraft Deployment Mechanism; US Patent Application 16/670,941
S. Pellegrino, H.A. Atwater, S.A. Hajimiri, E.E. Gdoutos, C. Leclerc, F.A. Royer, A. Pedivellano; Coilable Thin-Walled Longerons and Coilable Structures Implementing Longerons and Methods for Their Manufacture and Coiling; US Patent Application 16/514,793
M.D. Kelzenberg, H.A. Atwater, S. Pellegrino, S.A. Hajimiri, E.C. Warmann, A. Naqavi, S. Loke, T. Roy, T. Vinogradova, A. Messer, C. Leclerc, E. Gdoutos, J.S. Huang; Ultralight Photovoltaic Power Generation Tiles; US Patent Application 15/963,926
R. Brothers, E. Gdoutos, A. Mulliken, J. Pye; Creating Personalized Athletic Models; US patent 10,010,753; 2018.
R. Brothers, E. Gdoutos, A. Mulliken, J. Pye; Monitoring Performance and Generating Feedback with athletic-performance models; US patent 10,004,949; 2018.
