Stabilized skyrmions for smaller, greener, more dense, and more energy-efficient, post-silicon spintronic memory devices

https://phys.org/news/2026-04-skyrmions-atom-thin-magnets-ultra.html

"skyrmions often require: thicker materials with unwelcome surface roughness overcome using ultra-thin layers, extremely low temperatures to remain stable overcome using electrical pulses rather than bulky magnetic fields to create/ move... integrates into microchips... racetrack memory: data (represented by skyrmions) shifted along nanowire, increasing storage capacity 10 to 100X... moving skyrmions requires very little current, generating significantly less heat... ultra-dense memory, data centers"