Kristjan Stone is a Systems Integration and Test Engineer in the Applied Low Temperature Physics Group at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, Calif. He has worked on a variety of projects such as a cryocooler for the James Webb Space Telescope, the surface sampling system for the proposed Europa Lander mission, the X-ray source for the Perseverance Mars Rover, an icy moon broadband seismometer, the Roman Space Telescope Coronographic instrument, along with the Europa Clipper Magnetometer and Mapping Image Spectrometer. He has collaborated with Dr. Daraio’s Group at Caltech to develop a tensegrity based thermal isolator. Dr. Stone completed a postdoctoral research fellowship at the NASA Jet Propulsion Lab working on record-breaking far-infrared quantum capacitance detectors.
- Rice University PhD 2010
- Rice University MS 2008
- UCLA BS 2004
Systems Integration and Testing, Lunar Seismometry, Thermal Isolation and stability,
Detector Physics, Cryogenics, RF Systems, Superconductors/Semiconductors
- A. Erwin, K. J. Stone, D. Shelton, I. Hahn, S. Kedar, W. Huie, P. R. Williamson, L. de Paula, N. C. Schmerr, H. J. Paik, T. C. P. Chui, Electrostatic Frequency Reduction: A Negative Stiffness Mechanism for Measuring the Material Loss Angle at Low Frequency. Review of Scientific Instruments 92, 015101 (2021)
- P. M. Echternach, K. J. Stone, C. M. Bradford, P. K. Day, D. W. Wilson, K. G. Megerian, N. Llombart, J. Bueno, Photon shot noise limited detection of terahertz radiation using a quantum capacitance detector. Applied Physics Letters 103, 053510 (2013).
- K. Stone, K. G. Megerian, P. K. Day, J. Bueno, N. Llombart, P. M. Echternach, Real time quasiparticle tunneling measurements on the Quantum Capacitance Detector. Applied Physics Letters 100, 263509 (2012).
- K. Stone, R. R. Du, M.J. Manfra, L. N. Pfeifer, and K. W. West, Highly Sensitive Differential Microwave Power Transmission Technique for Measuring Cyclotron Resonance in a Gated 2D Hole Gas Quantum Wells. Applied Physics Letters 100, 192104 (2012).
- Y. H. Dai, K. Stone, I. Knez, C. Zhang, R. R. Du, C. L. Yang, L. N. Pfeiffer, and K. W. West, Response of the microwave-induced cyclotron harmonic resistance spike to an in-plane magnetic field. Physical Review B 84, 241303 (2011).
- K. Stone, C. L. Yang, Z. Q. Yuan, R. R. Du, L. N. Pfeiffer, and K. W. West, Photovoltaic oscillations due to edge-magnetoplasmon modes in a very high-mobility two-dimensional electron gas. Physical Review B 76, 153306 (2007).
