In order to
use skyrmions as a storage medium, it must be possible to manufacture the surfaces or interfaces on a sufficiently large scale, they must contain enough of the
magnetic material, and the
magnetic vortex must also occur at room temperature.
Using intense x-rays generated at Berkeley University's Advanced Light Source, the team captured time - resolved images of whirlpool patterns called
magnetic vortices as they gyrated along a nanometer - wide half - ring track.