The international research team lead by Sándor Bordács and István Kézsmárki discovered a new class of magnetic skyrmions, the so-called Néel-type skyrmions. This novel topological spin texture has a ferroelectric dressing, hence, besides a magnetic manipulation it can also be controlled via electric fields. These results have been recently published in Nature Materials.

Homepage of the Lendület group: http://magnetooptics.phy.bme.hu

The article: http://www.nature.com/nmat/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nmat4402.html