Fig. 2. Skyrmion displacement.

Subtracted Kerr-microscopy images of an equilateral triangular device with an edge length of 36 µm (tip to tip), each with a single skyrmion (dark gray) in a the ground state without and b–e with applied electrical potentials. In brackets below are the input patterns of the respective state. e includes exemplarily the four regions used to mimic MTJs in our analysis. Red arrows show the most probable directions in which the skyrmion will move due to thermal excitation. The chromium/gold contacts overlap the thin film in the corners and on the bottom edge (the latter is unused for the results shown).