Gartner Glossary

Polymer Memory

Polymer memory refers to memory technologies based on the use of organic polymers. Some of these technologies use changes in the resistance of conducting polymers under read/write control. Other architectures are based on ferroelectric polymers. The properties of polymer memory are low-cost and high-performance, and have the potential for 3D stacking and mechanical flexibility. Variants can be write-once or multiple-write. Printed versions of this technology already exist and are used in low-density applications such as toys.