Skip to main content

Thank you for visiting nature.com. You are using a browser version with limited support for CSS. To obtain the best experience, we recommend you use a more up to date browser (or turn off compatibility mode in Internet Explorer). In the meantime, to ensure continued support, we are displaying the site without styles and JavaScript.

  • News & Views
  • Published:

SPINTRONICS

Painting and erasing skyrmions

Nature Electronics volume 1, pages 266–267 (2018)Cite this article

Subjects

Topologically protected whirl-like magnetic textures are deterministically created and deleted using current pulses.

This is a preview of subscription content, access via your institution

Access options

Buy this article

  • Purchase on Springer Link
  • Instant access to full article PDF
Buy now

Prices may be subject to local taxes which are calculated during checkout

Fig. 1: Schematic illustration of painting and erasing ferrimagnetic skyrmions by current pulses.

References

  1. Hrabec, A. et al. Nat. Commun. 8, 15765 (2017).

    Article  Google Scholar 

  2. Legrand, W. et al. Nano Lett. 17, 2703–2712 (2017).

    Article  Google Scholar 

  3. Büttner, F. et al. Nat. Nanotech. 12, 1040–1044 (2017).

    Article  Google Scholar 

  4. Yu, G. et al. Nano Lett. 16, 1981–1988 (2016).

    Article  Google Scholar 

  5. Woo, S. et al. Nat. Electron. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41928-018-0070-8 (2018).

  6. Stier, M. et al. Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 267203 (2017).

    Article  Google Scholar 

  7. Everschor-Sitte, K., Sitte, M., Valet, T., Abanov, A. & Sinova, J. New J. Phys. 19, 092001 (2017).

    Article  Google Scholar 

  8. Leonov, A. O. & Mostovoy, M. Nat. Commun. 8, 14394 (2017).

    Article  Google Scholar 

  9. Woo, S. et al. Nat. Commun. 9, 959 (2018).

    Article  Google Scholar 

  10. De Lucia, A., Litzius, K., Krüger, B., Tretiakov, O. A. & Kläui, M. Phys. Rev. B 96, 020405 (2017).

    Article  Google Scholar 

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. Institute of Physics, Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany

    Karin Everschor-Sitte & Jairo Sinova

  2. Department of Physics & Astronomy, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA

    Artem Abanov

Authors
  1. Karin Everschor-Sitte
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  2. Jairo Sinova
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  3. Artem Abanov
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Corresponding author

Correspondence to Karin Everschor-Sitte.

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Check for updates. Verify currency and authenticity via CrossMark

Cite this article

Everschor-Sitte, K., Sinova, J. & Abanov, A. Painting and erasing skyrmions. Nat Electron 1, 266–267 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41928-018-0078-0

Download citation

  • Published:

  • Issue Date:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41928-018-0078-0

Search

Advanced search

Quick links

Nature Briefing

Sign up for the Nature Briefing newsletter — what matters in science, free to your inbox daily.

Get the most important science stories of the day, free in your inbox. Sign up for Nature Briefing