Dr.
Ribal Georges Sabat, CD, rmc, PhD
Full Professor and Vice-Principal
Academic
Coordinates
Office: Sawyer Building, Room 5303Laboratories: Sawyer Building, Rooms 4401 and 5331
Telephone: (613) 541-6000 Office extension 6721 or Lab extension 6451
Fax: 613-541-6040
Email:
Mailing address:
Prof. Ribal Georges Sabat
Department of Physics and Space Science
Royal Military College of Canada
PO Box 17000, Station Forces
Kingston, Ontario CANADA
K7K 7B4
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Expertise
Prof. Sabat is an expert in
optical materials, nanotechnology, and photonics.
Specifically, he conducts research on measuring,
understanding, and enhancing the mechanical, electrical,
and optical properties of transducer-type materials to be
used in functional devices and applications. His main
research thrust is on the laser fabrication of optical
nanostructures, microstructures and metasurfaces in
photomechanical azobenzene thin films. After fabrication,
these films, having customizable surface features
including biomimicry, exhibit interesting plasmonic and
optical properties which are well-suited for incorporation
in practical devices such as diffraction gratings,
electro-optical modulators, light waveguides, light-based
sensors and biosensors, thin film solar cells, active
optical coatings, selective spectroscopy surfaces and all
types of imaging devices and applications.
Education
- 2009 - PhD in Experimental Physics from the Royal Military College of Canada. Supervisor: Prof. Paul Rochon.
- 2005 - MSc in Experimental Physics from the Royal Military College of Canada. Supervisor: Prof. Binu Mukherjee.
- 2000 - BSc in Honours Physics from the Royal Military College of Canada.
Work Experience
- 2023
- present: Vice-Principal Academic at the Royal Military
College of Canada
- 2020
- 2023: Head of the Department of Physics and Space
Science at the Royal Military College of Canada
- 2019 - present: Full professor at the Royal Military College of Canada
- 2016 - 2021: Adjunct associate professor at Queen's University
- 2015 - 2019: Associate professor at the Royal Military College of Canada
- 2013 - 2016: Adjunct assistant professor at Queen's University
- 2010 - 2015: Assistant professor at the Royal Military College of Canada
- 1996 - 2010: Officer in the Canadian Air Force
Professional memberships
- Senior member of the SPIE – Society of Photo-optical Instrumentation Engineers
- Member of the OSA – Optical Society of America
Courses taught at RMC in 2022-23
Undergraduate
courses:- PHF302:
Électromagnétisme (Fall 2022)
- PHF307: Optique (Winter 2023)
- PH503:
Advanced Optics [Course
outline]
Research funding support provided by
- Defence
Research and Development Canada / Recherche et
développement pour la défense Canada
- Canadian
Defense Academy Research Program / Programme de
Recherche de l’Académie Canadienne de la Défense
- Natural
Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
(NSERC) Discovery Grants / Conseil de recherches en
sciences naturelles et en génie du Canada (CRSNG) Fonds
Découvertes
We support the MITACS program. Canadian companies may inquire with Prof. Sabat:
