Dr. Donald Priour

Associate Professor
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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

  • Education
    • 2000

      Ph D, Physics

      Princeton University

    • 1997

      MA, Physics

      Princeton University

    • 1995

      BA, Physics

      Rice University

  • Awards and Honors
    • 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

  • Intellectual Contributions
    • 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