Illustration 2 (IMAGE)

Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology (Empa)

Illustration 2

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The two outer ferromagnetic multilayers create a high density of skyrmions and influence the central ferrimagnetic multilayer in such a way that some skyrmions from the outer layers can enter the middle one. This creates two different types of skyrmions that can be used for bits 0 and 1.

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Empa

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