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Skyrmions are nano-sized magnetic whirls attractive for spintronic applications due to their innate stability. They can emulate the characteristic behavior of various spintronic and electronic devices such as spin-torque nano-oscillators,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-08 Ismael Ribeiro de Assis , Ingrid Mertig , Börge Göbel

Increasing amounts of information force the continuous improvement of information storage and processing technologies, further device miniaturization, and their efficiency increase. Magnetic skyrmions, topological quasiparticles, and the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-04-13 Mateusz Zelent , Mathieu Moalic , Michal Mruczkiewicz , Xiaoguang Li , Yan Zhou , Maciej Krawczyk

A stable skyrmion, representing the smallest realizable magnetic texture, could be an ideal element for ultra-dense magnetic memories. Here, we review recent progress in the field of skyrmionics, which is concerned with studies of tiny…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-10-01 Alexey A. Kovalev , Shane Sandhoefner

Voltage manipulation of skyrmions is a promising path towards low-energy spintronic devices. Here, voltage effects on skyrmions in a GdOx/Gd/Co/Pt heterostructure are observed experimentally. The results show that the skyrmion density can…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-05-19 Yifan Zhou , Rhodri Mansell , Sebastiaan van Dijken

Magnetic skyrmion, a swirling spin texture, in chiral magnets is characterized by (i) nano-scale size ($\sim$1nm -- 100nm), (ii) topological stability, and (iii) gyro-dynamics. These features are shown to be advantageous for (a)…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-23 W. Koshibae , Y. Kaneko , J. Iwasaki , M. Kawasaki , Y. Tokura , N. Nagaosa

Magnetic skyrmions are topologically stabilized quasi-particles and are promising candidates for energy-efficient applications, such as storage but also logic and sensing. Here we present a new concept for a multi-turn sensor-counter device…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-05-14 Kilian Leutner , Thomas Brian Winkler , Johannes Güttinger , Hans Fangohr , Mathias Kläui

Learning and pattern recognition inevitably requires memory of previous events, a feature that conventional CMOS hardware needs to artificially simulate. Dynamical systems naturally provide the memory, complexity, and nonlinearity needed…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2023-07-12 Oscar Lee , Robin Msiska , Maarten A. Brems , Mathias Klaui , Hidekazu Kurebayashi , Karin Everschor-Sitte

Reservoir Computing is a type of recursive neural network commonly used for recognizing and predicting spatio-temporal events relying on a complex hierarchy of nested feedback loops to generate a memory functionality. The Reservoir…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-02-05 George Bourianoff , Daniele Pinna , Matthias Sitte , Karin Everschor-Sitte

This work proposes a novel logic device (SkyLogic) based on skyrmions, which are magnetic vortex-like structures that have low depinning current density and are robust to defects. A charge current sent through a polarizer ferromagnet (P-FM)…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2019-05-01 Meghna G. Mankalale , Zhengyang Zhao , Jian-Ping Wang , Sachin S. Sapatnekar

The field of magnetic skyrmions has been actively investigated across a wide range of topics during the last decades. In this topical review, we mainly review and discuss key results and findings in skyrmion research since the first…

Inspired by the human brain, there is a strong effort to find alternative models of information processing capable of imitating the high energy efficiency of neuromorphic information processing. One possible realization of cognitive…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2018-02-07 Diana Prychynenko , Matthias Sitte , Kai Litzius , Benjamin Krüger , George Bourianoff , Mathias Kläui , Jairo Sinova , Karin Everschor-Sitte

Magnetic skyrmions are topologically-protected spin textures existing in helimagentic materials, which can be utilized as information carriers for non-volatile memories and logic circuits in spintronics. Searching simple and controllable…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-01-08 Ya-qing Zheng , Yong Wang

Improvements in computing performance have significantly slowed down over the past few years owing to the intrinsic limitations of computing hardware. However, the demand for data computing has increased exponentially. To solve this…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-04-22 Sai Li , Wang Kang , Xichao Zhang , Tianxiao Nie , Yan Zhou , Kang L. Wang , Weisheng Zhao

With the recent proposition of skyrmion utilization in racetrack memories at room temperature, skyrmionics has become a very attractive field. However, for the stability of skyrmions, it is essential to incorporate the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-03-09 R. P. Loreto , W. A. Moura-Melo , A. R. Pereira , X. Zhang , Y. Zhou , M. Ezawa , C. I. L. Araujo

Skyrmionic devices exhibit energy-efficient and high-integration data storage and computing capabilities due to their small size, topological protection, and low drive current requirements. So, to realize these devices, an extensive study,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-09-08 Kishan K. Mishra , Aijaz H. Lone , Srikant Srinivasan , Hossein Fariborzi , Gianluca Setti

Skyrmions are chiral swirling magnetization structures with nanoscale size. These structures have attracted considerable attention due to their topological stability and promising applicability in nanodevices, since they can be displaced…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-02-19 Swapneel Amit Pathak , Riccardo Hertel

The topologically protected magnetic spin configurations known as skyrmions offer promising applications due to their stability, mobility and localization. In this work, we emphasize how to leverage the thermally driven dynamics of an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-06-20 Daniele Pinna , Flavio Abreu Araujo , Joo-Von Kim , Vincent Cros , Damien Querlioz , Perre Bessiere , Jacques Droulez , Julie Grollier

Magnetic skyrmions are topologically protected quasiparticles and have drawn much attention because of their potential applications in next-generation spintronics devices. Their inherent topological stability, nanoscale size, and efficient…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-02-19 Hind Prakash , Himanshu Fulara

Magnetic skyrmionium is a novel magnetization configuration with zero skyrmion number, which is composed by two skyrmions with opposite skyrmion number. Here, we study the dynamics of skyrmionium under an anisotropy gradient. We find that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-09-04 Chengkun Song , Chendong Jin , Yunxu Ma , Jinshuai Wang , Haiyan Xia , Jianbo Wang , Qingfang Liu

Spin transfer torque (STT) affords magnetic nanodevices the potential to act as memory, computing, and microwave elements operating at ultra-low currents and at a low energy cost. Spin transfer torque is not only effective in manipulating…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-09-19 Y. Zhou , E. Iacocca , A. Awad , R. K. Dumas , F. C. Zhang , H. B. Braun , J. Åkerman