R&D: Swirly Skyrmions Could be Future of Data Storage

IEEE Spectrum has published an article written by Dexter Johnson.

Introduction: “About five years ago, researchers at the University of Hamburg demonstrated that tiny, swirling magnetic spin patterns on thin films – known as skyrmions – could be used to store and erase data on magnetic media.“

“At that time, these spinning magnetic swirls that had been proposed over 60 years ago by British physicist Tony Skyrme – from whom the name derives – had suddenly become a potentially game changing magnetic data storage system. And what a change it represented: skyrmions are 10 times smaller than the magnetic regions used on traditional hard drives.…..”