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Spinoff story
Heat Transfer Research
A real-world story of NASA technology finding a life beyond the mission.
About this technology
Overview
A COSMIC program called RAVFAC enables Western Electric Company to study heat transfer processes to develop new manufacturing application. RAVFAC, Radiation View Finder Program is used in analyzing high temperature processing in manufacturing semiconductor wafers. It helps assess new designs by calculating heat transfer to determine temperature variation. The program has been extremely cost effective.