Hybrid skyrmions exhibit low Hall angle in a multiferroic, suggesting a new method for electrical control of spintronics.
Magnetic skyrmions hold great promise as information carriers in spintronics, yet their practical implementation is impeded by the skyrmion Hall effect (SkHE). Combining symmetry analysis, first-principles calculations, and atomic spin simulations, we demonstrate hybrid skyrmions in the multiferroic monolayer TcIrGe2Se6. It hosts a mixed Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (DMI) containing both parallel and perpendicular components. This unique DMI stabilizes hybrid skyrmions exhibiting a nearly vanishing skyrmion Hall angle, thereby suppressing the SkHE. Benefiting from strong DMI and high Curie temperature (330 K), these hybrid skyrmions maintain stable across a wide temperature and magnetic field range. The intrinsic magnetoelectric coupling enables electrical control of skyrmion chirality and current-driven motion through ferroelectric switching, while strain engineering permits continuous helicity modulation and induces a topological transition to bimerons. Our work establishes TcIrGe2Se6 as a promising platform for hybrid skyrmions and provides a multimodal control scheme, integrating electrical switching for chirality and strain engineering for helicity.
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