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Microelectronics represent to a large extent the key industry in the 80′ and 90′s of this century. Progress in microelectronics, however, is directly related to progress in data storage technology. Up to now main data memories are exclusively based on silicon semiconductor devices, mass data memories—at least the most important ones—are magnetic data storage units. New on the market are non-erasable optical memories using polymers or polymer substrates (e.g., CD-ROM’s). Under development are erasable optical and electrical polymer data memories: photopolymers, LC-side chain polymers, ferroelectric polymers, and such for holographic or photo-chemical hole burning data storage. The paper describes the current state of art and compares the various developments of special polymers in an attempt to forecast the possible significance of polymer memories with high data packing densities in relation to the established technologies.
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Kaempf, G. Special Polymers for Data Memories. Polym J 19, 257–268 (1987). https://doi.org/10.1295/polymj.19.257
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