Nature Communications (Nov 2022)

Three-dimensional skyrmionic cocoons in magnetic multilayers

  • Matthieu Grelier,
  • Florian Godel,
  • Aymeric Vecchiola,
  • Sophie Collin,
  • Karim Bouzehouane,
  • Albert Fert,
  • Vincent Cros,
  • Nicolas Reyren

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-34370-x
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Three dimensional topological spin textures, such as hopfions and skyrmion tubes, have seen a surge of interest for their potential technological applications. They offer greater flexibility than their two dimensional counterparts, but have been hampered by the limited material platforms. Here, Grelier et al. look at aperiodic multilayers, and observe a three dimensional skyrmionic cocoon.