COMSET
The National Academy of Engineering (NAE) has named a new member from Clemson University, optics researcher Roger Stolen. A pioneer in engineering methods to harness light, Stolen is a
distinguished visiting professor in materials science and engineering
and faculty member in Clemson’s Center for Optical Materials Science and Engineering Technologies (COMSET).
Welcome to COMSET
The Center for Optical Materials Science and Engineering Technologies (COMSET), formed in 2000, is an interdisciplinary unit of the College of Engineering and Science at Clemson University. COMSET provides an organized framework with significant centralized infrastructure for faculty with common interests to collaborate in developing advanced materials, devices and systems that generate, transmit, manipulate and utilize light.
The science and engineering of light-based technologies is approaching a trillion dollar global market. With materials as the technology enabler within all devices and components, Clemson University and South Carolina, through COMSET, are uniquely positioned to support the research, work-force development and outreach needs of the industry.
COMSET conducts an important blend of “what-if” basic science and more applied research with immediate deliverables in wide-ranging areas including organic LEDs, specialty optical fiber, light-emitting plastics, glasses and crystals.
We welcome you to explore this website and contact us with collaborative opportunities.
Announcement
- Faculty Search for the Samuel Lewis Bell Distinguished Professorship
- Faculty Search, Tenure-Track, Department of Materials Science and Engineering
Brag Points
- The Center for Optical Materials Science and Engineering Technologies (COMSET) was formed in 2000 as a research unit of Clemson’s College of Engineering and Science. Academic programs (M.S. and Ph.D. in Photonic Science and Engineering) were added in 2009.
- 25 faculty from five departments focus on application-specific synthesis, characterization and integration of optical materials and optoelectronic structures.
- Searches open for Endowed Chair positions in optical fibers and optoelectronics.
- More than $45 million in external research funding to-date; 66 percent hit-rate on proposals; 250 publications and more than 2,500 citations. This is about two journal articles per month and one cite every other day for 10 years.
- Other Brag Points: six NSF CAREER awards, six MURIs, DARPA Young Investigator (YIP) Award, Air Force YIP, 17 journal covers
Headlines
Clemson's COMSET partners with OFS for fiber optic research lab
ECE Faculty Win Three High Energy Laser Contracts
ECE Professor Lin Zhu receives Army Young Investigator Award
A Major Constituent of Brown Algae for Use in High-Capacity Li-Ion Batteries
Professor Liang Dong receives AFOSR grant
Clemson faculty selected as a Champion of Photovoltaics
Clemson faculty member elected ACerS Fellow
Clemson physicist Apparao Rao named Fellow of the American Physical Society
School of Materials Science and Engineering director elected to ACerS Board
Roger Stolen elected to prestigious Russian Academy of Sciences