Donald Priour

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Dr. Donald Priour

Associate Professor

Physics, Astronomy, Geology, & Environmental Sciences

Ward Beecher Hall 2025

phone: (330) 941-1420

djpriour@ysu.edu

  • 2000

    Ph D, Physics

    Princeton University

  • 1997

    MA, Physics

    Princeton University

  • 1995

    BA, Physics

    Rice University

  • 2019

    Youngstown State University

    YSU Distinguished Professorship Award in Scholarship

  • 2018

    Physical Review Letters

    Article published in Physical Review Letters chosen as an editor's selection

  • 2018

    Physical Review Letters

    Article feature on the cover of the Physical Review Letters journa

  • 2010

    Physical Review B

    Physical Review B article figure featured in the June 2010 Kaleidoscope section of Physical Review B

  • 2007

    American Physical Sociey

    Invited talk at the American Physical Society March Meeting

  • 1997

    Princeton University Physics Department

    Award for best graduate teaching

  • 1995

    Rice University

    Graduated Summa Cum Laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Rice University

  • 1995

    Rice University Physics Department

    Claude W. Heaps Prize for best undergraduate physics thesis

  • 1995

    Rice University Department of Physics

    Bonner Book Award for best physics student

  • 2023

    "Percolation through voids around toroidal inclusions"

    A. Ballow, P. Linton, D. Priour

    Physical Review E, volume 107, p. 014902

  • 2018

    "Percolation through voids around Randomly Oriented Polyhedra and Axially Symmetric Grains"

    D. Priour

    Physical Review Letters, volume 121, p. 225701

  • 2014

    "Percolation through Voids around Overlapping Spheres, a Dynamically Based Finite Size Scaling Analysis"

    D. Priour

    Physical Review E, volume 89, p. 012148

  • 2012

    "Electronic States in ONe, Two, and Three Dimensional Highly Amorphous Materials: A Tight Binding Treatment"

    D. Priour

    Physical Review B, volume 85, p. 014209

  • 2011

    "Percolation through Voids around Overlapping Spheres, a Dynamically Based Finite Size Scaling Analysis"

    J. Biddle, D. Priour, B. Wang, S. Sarma

    Physical Review B, volume 83, p. 075105

  • 2010

    "Melting and Rippling Phenomena in Two Dimnensional Crystals with localized bonding"

    D. Priour, J. Losey

    Physical Review B, volume 81, p. 214302

  • 2010

    "Critical Behavior of diluted magnetic semiconductors: Apparent violation and eventual restoration of the Harris criterion for all regimes of disorder"

    D. Priour, S. Sarma

    Physical Review B, volume 81, p. 224403

  • 2009

    "Localization in one-dimensional incommensurate lattices beyond the Aubry-Audre model"

    J. Biddle, B. Wang, D. Priour, S. Sarma

    Physical Review B (Rapid Communications, volume 80, p. 021603 (R)

  • 2006

    "Phase Diagram of the Disordered RKKY Model in Diluted Magnetic Semiconductors"

    D. Priour, S. Sarma

    Physical Review Letters, volume 97, p. 127201

  • 2006

    "Clustering in disordered ferromagnets: The Curie temperature in diluted magnetic semiconductors"

    D. Priour, S. Sarma

    Physical Review B, volume 73, p. 165203

  • 2005

    "Quasi-Two-Dimensional Diluted Magnetic Semiconductor Systems"

    D. Priour, E. Hwang, S. Sarma

    Physical Review Letters, volume 95, p. 037201

  • 2004

    "Vortex States of a Superconducting Film from a Magnetic Dot Array"

    D. Priour, H. Fertig

    Physical Review Letters, volume 93, p. 057003

  • 2004

    "Enhancing T_c in Ferromagnetic Semiconductors"

    S. Sarma, . E,H. Hwang, D. Priour

    Physical Review B (Rapid Communications), volume 70, p. 161203 (R)

  • 2004

    "Disordered RKKY Lattice Mean Field Theory for Ferromagnetism in Diluted Magnetic Semiconductors"

    D. Priour, E. Hwang, S. Sarma

    Physical Review Letters, volume 92, p. 117201

  • 2004

    "Broken orientational and reflection symmetries in thin film superconductors with mesoscopic magnetic dipoles"

    D. Priour

    Physica C, volume 404, p. 293-297

  • 2003

    "Deformation and depinning of superconducting vortices from artificial defects: A Ginzburg-Landau study"

    D. Priour, H. Fertig

    Physical Review B, volume 67, p. 054504

  • 2002

    "London equation studies of thin-film superconductors wiht a triangular antidot lattice"

    S. Cheng, D. Priour, H. Fertig

    Physical Review B, volume 65, p. 024503