Within a decade, the field of magnetic skyrmionics has developed from a niche prediction to
a huge and active research field. Not only do magnetic skyrmions—magnetic whirls with a …

Racetrack memories with magnetic skyrmions have recently been proposed as a promising
storage technology. To be appealing, several challenges must still be faced for the …

Magnetic skyrmions have attracted signficant research interest across a wide range of fields,
from condensed matter physics to material science, since the first observation in 2009 …

The dynamics of antiferromagnets is a current hot topic in condensed matter physics and
spintronics. However, the dynamics of insulating antiferromagnets cannot be excited by an …

Magnetic skyrmions are versatile topological excitations that can be used as nonvolatile
information carriers. The confinement of skyrmions in channels is fundamental for any …

Magnetic skyrmions are real-space topological spin textures, which have attracted
increasing attention from the nanospintronics community. Toward functional skyrmionics, the …

Traditional electronic technologies face many challenges, such as the scalability of
equipment and improvement of performance. Some novel spintronic objects are expected to …

Magnetic skyrmions are topologically protected swirling spin textures with great potential for
future spintronic applications. The ability to induce skyrmion motion using mechanical strain …

The dynamical properties of skyrmions can be exploited to build devices with new
functionalities. Here, we first investigate a skyrmion-based ring-shaped device by means of …

Micromagnetic simulations are used to investigate the motion of magnetic skyrmions in an in-
plane strain gradient. The skyrmion diameter and energy are found to depend on the strain …