Dr. Donald Priour
Associate Professor
Physics, Astronomy, Geology, & Environmental Sciences
Ward Beecher Hall 2025
phone: (330) 941-1420
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Education
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2000
Ph D, Physics
Princeton University
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1997
MA, Physics
Princeton University
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1995
BA, Physics
Rice University
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Awards and Honors
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April 2019
Youngstown State University
YSU Distinguished Professorship Award in Scholarship
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November 2018
Physical Review Letters
Article published in Physical Review Letters chosen as an editor's selection
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November 2018
Physical Review Letters
Article feature on the cover of the Physical Review Letters journa
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June 2010
Physical Review B
Physical Review B article figure featured in the June 2010 Kaleidoscope section of Physical Review B
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March 2007
American Physical Sociey
Invited talk at the American Physical Society March Meeting
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June 1997
Princeton University Physics Department
Award for best graduate teaching
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May 1995
Rice University
Graduated Summa Cum Laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Rice University
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May 1995
Rice University Physics Department
Claude W. Heaps Prize for best undergraduate physics thesis
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May 1995
Rice University Department of Physics
Bonner Book Award for best physics student
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Intellectual Contributions
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2023
"Percolation through voids around toroidal inclusions"
Physical Review E, volume 107, p. 014902
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2018
"Percolation through voids around Randomly Oriented Polyhedra and Axially Symmetric Grains"
Physical Review Letters, volume 121, p. 225701
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2014
"Percolation through Voids around Overlapping Spheres, a Dynamically Based Finite Size Scaling Analysis"
Physical Review E, volume 89, p. 012148
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2012
"Electronic States in ONe, Two, and Three Dimensional Highly Amorphous Materials: A Tight Binding Treatment"
Physical Review B, volume 85, p. 014209
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2011
"Percolation through Voids around Overlapping Spheres, a Dynamically Based Finite Size Scaling Analysis"
Physical Review B, volume 83, p. 075105
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2010
"Melting and Rippling Phenomena in Two Dimnensional Crystals with localized bonding"
Physical Review B, volume 81, p. 214302
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2010
"Critical Behavior of diluted magnetic semiconductors: Apparent violation and eventual restoration of the Harris criterion for all regimes of disorder"
Physical Review B, volume 81, p. 224403
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2009
"Localization in one-dimensional incommensurate lattices beyond the Aubry-Audre model"
Physical Review B (Rapid Communications, volume 80, p. 021603 (R)
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2006
"Phase Diagram of the Disordered RKKY Model in Diluted Magnetic Semiconductors"
Physical Review Letters, volume 97, p. 127201
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2006
"Clustering in disordered ferromagnets: The Curie temperature in diluted magnetic semiconductors"
Physical Review B, volume 73, p. 165203
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2005
"Quasi-Two-Dimensional Diluted Magnetic Semiconductor Systems"
Physical Review Letters, volume 95, p. 037201
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2004
"Vortex States of a Superconducting Film from a Magnetic Dot Array"
Physical Review Letters, volume 93, p. 057003
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2004
"Enhancing T_c in Ferromagnetic Semiconductors"
Physical Review B (Rapid Communications), volume 70, p. 161203 (R)
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2004
"Disordered RKKY Lattice Mean Field Theory for Ferromagnetism in Diluted Magnetic Semiconductors"
Physical Review Letters, volume 92, p. 117201
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2004
"Broken orientational and reflection symmetries in thin film superconductors with mesoscopic magnetic dipoles"
Physica C, volume 404, p. 293-297
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2003
"Deformation and depinning of superconducting vortices from artificial defects: A Ginzburg-Landau study"
Physical Review B, volume 67, p. 054504
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2002
"London equation studies of thin-film superconductors wiht a triangular antidot lattice"
Physical Review B, volume 65, p. 024503
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