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Writing and Deleting Single Magnetic Skyrmions
Abstract
Controlling Skyrmions: Magnetic skyrmions—tiny vortex patterns of spins—hold promise for information storage because of their robustness to perturbations. Skyrmions have been observed experimentally, but manipulating them individually remains a challenge. Romming et al. (p. 636 ; see the cover) used spin-polarized electrons generated by a scanning tunneling microscope to reversibly create and destroy skyrmions in a thin iron film covered by a layer of palladium. The energy of the tunneling electrons was the decisive factor determining the probability of the process; atomic defects in the film acted as pinning sites for the skyrmions. The work demonstrates the feasibility of using spin-polarized tunnel currents for the controlled manipulation of individual skyrmions.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Romming, N., Hanneken, C., Menzel, M., Bickel, J. E., Wolter, B., von Bergmann, K., Kubetzka, A., & Wiesendanger, R.
- Venue
- Science
- Published
- 2013-08-09
- Volume
- 341
- Issue
- 6146
- Pages
- 636-639
- ISSN
- 0036-8075 (ISSN-L)
- 1095-9203
- OpenAlex
- W2093283551
- Cited by
- 1,545
- References
- 23
- FWCI
- 53.63
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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