Spontaneous emergence of skyrmions beyond room temperature in boron-doped CrTe
Jagannath Jena, Konstantin Holst, Börge Göbel, Yangkun He, Binoy Krishna Hazra, Pedram Bassirian, Katayoon Mohseni, Georg Woltersdorf, Ingrid Mertig, Holger Meyerheim, Claudia Felser, Stuart S P Parkin · 2026
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Jagannath Jena and co-authors watch magnetic whirlpools form on their own, above room temperature and with no magnet applied, in a boron doped crystal, in a study from 2026. The whirlpools, called skyrmions, are tiny stable swirls of magnetization prized for future memory and computing devices. Making them usually needs a magnetic field and a prepared starting state, which complicates devices.
Using an electron microscope that images magnetism directly, the team saw skyrmions appear spontaneously in the doped crystal. They stayed stable over a wide temperature range, in zero field, and at varied sample thicknesses. A field cooling routine could still steer their density when control was wanted. Zero field stability at working temperatures removes a practical barrier for skyrmion based hardware.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Jagannath Jena, Konstantin Holst, Börge Göbel, Yangkun He, Binoy Krishna Hazra, Pedram Bassirian, Katayoon Mohseni, Georg Woltersdorf, Ingrid Mertig, Holger Meyerheim, Claudia Felser, Stuart S P Parkin |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 36 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |