To make skyrmion bubbles, researchers
crafted a setup made out of tiny,
precise, layered structures made using a
process called lithography at the Center for Nanoscale Materials, a DOE Office of Science user facility at Argonne.
Throughout his painstakingly
precise craft process — likened to the ancient technique used to sculpt Japanese Great Buddhas — Haroshi individually selects and then stacks skateboard decks into a solid, glued cube of recycled wood.