COMSET

Dr. Eric Johnson as the PalmettoNet Endowed Chair. March 2012
Dr. Eric Johnson invested as the PalmettoNet Endowed Chair in Optoelectronics; Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering. As the endowed chair, Johnson serves as the head of the South Carolina SmartState Center of Economic Excellence in Optoelectronics.

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.

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, three JTO MURIs, DARPA Young Investigator (YIP) Award, Air Force YIP, 12 journal covers.