The magnetic skyrmions are topologically protected spin configuration, which stabilized by Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (DMI). Due to skyrmions’ ability to be small, stable, and controllable by electric current [1], they have considerable potential for high-density data storage applications. It is theoretically predicted that ferrimagnetic materials prefer holding small skyrmions at room temperature (RT) [2,3]. 10-15nm ferrimagnetic CoGd heterostructures and 10-15nm ferrimagnetic Mn₄N heterostructures were fabricated by magnetron sputtering for holding small skyrmions at RT. Magnetic force microscope images show skyrmions. A designed compound layer is capping on the top of the magnetic layer to adjust the interfacial DMI, thus tune the size of skyrmions. The micromagnetic simulation was performed to study the effect of DMI on the size of skyrmions Mn₄N.

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