Associate Professor
Physics, Astronomy, Geology, & Environmental Sciences
Ward Beecher Hall 2025
phone: (330) 941-1420
Ph D, Physics
Princeton University
MA, Physics
Princeton University
BA, Physics
Rice University
Youngstown State University
YSU Distinguished Professorship Award in Scholarship
Physical Review Letters
Article published in Physical Review Letters chosen as an editor's selection
Physical Review Letters
Article feature on the cover of the Physical Review Letters journa
Physical Review B
Physical Review B article figure featured in the June 2010 Kaleidoscope section of Physical Review B
American Physical Sociey
Invited talk at the American Physical Society March Meeting
Princeton University Physics Department
Award for best graduate teaching
Rice University
Graduated Summa Cum Laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Rice University
Rice University Physics Department
Claude W. Heaps Prize for best undergraduate physics thesis
Rice University Department of Physics
Bonner Book Award for best physics student
"Percolation through voids around toroidal inclusions"
A. Ballow, P. Linton, D. Priour
Physical Review E, volume 107, p. 014902
"Percolation through voids around Randomly Oriented Polyhedra and Axially Symmetric Grains"
D. Priour
Physical Review Letters, volume 121, p. 225701
"Percolation through Voids around Overlapping Spheres, a Dynamically Based Finite Size Scaling Analysis"
D. Priour
Physical Review E, volume 89, p. 012148
"Electronic States in ONe, Two, and Three Dimensional Highly Amorphous Materials: A Tight Binding Treatment"
D. Priour
Physical Review B, volume 85, p. 014209
"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
"Melting and Rippling Phenomena in Two Dimnensional Crystals with localized bonding"
D. Priour, J. Losey
Physical Review B, volume 81, p. 214302
"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
"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)
"Phase Diagram of the Disordered RKKY Model in Diluted Magnetic Semiconductors"
D. Priour, S. Sarma
Physical Review Letters, volume 97, p. 127201
"Clustering in disordered ferromagnets: The Curie temperature in diluted magnetic semiconductors"
D. Priour, S. Sarma
Physical Review B, volume 73, p. 165203
"Quasi-Two-Dimensional Diluted Magnetic Semiconductor Systems"
D. Priour, E. Hwang, S. Sarma
Physical Review Letters, volume 95, p. 037201
"Vortex States of a Superconducting Film from a Magnetic Dot Array"
D. Priour, H. Fertig
Physical Review Letters, volume 93, p. 057003
"Enhancing T_c in Ferromagnetic Semiconductors"
S. Sarma, . E,H. Hwang, D. Priour
Physical Review B (Rapid Communications), volume 70, p. 161203 (R)
"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
"Broken orientational and reflection symmetries in thin film superconductors with mesoscopic magnetic dipoles"
D. Priour
Physica C, volume 404, p. 293-297
"Deformation and depinning of superconducting vortices from artificial defects: A Ginzburg-Landau study"
D. Priour, H. Fertig
Physical Review B, volume 67, p. 054504
"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