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Detection with unpolarized currents

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An electrical read-out mechanism for magnetic skyrmions that does not require spin-polarized currents could facilitate the use of these small magnetic states in memory devices.

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Figure 1: Spin detection.
Figure 2: Skyrmions and their electrical detection in a racetrack memory.

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  1. Theodore L. Monchesky is in the Department of Physics and Atmospheric Science, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia B3H 4R2, Canada,

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Monchesky, T. Detection with unpolarized currents. Nature Nanotech 10, 1008–1009 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1038/nnano.2015.226

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