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Spinoff story
Cleaning up Silicon
A real-world story of NASA technology finding a life beyond the mission.
About this technology
Overview
A development program that started in 1975 between Union Carbide and JPL, led to Advanced Silicon Materials LLC's, formerly ASiMI, commercial process for producing silane in viable quantities. The process was expanded to include the production of high-purity polysilicon for electronic devices. The technology came out of JPL's Low Cost Silicon Array Project.