Milde, PeterNeuber, ErikBauer, AndreasPfleiderer, ChristianBerger, HelmuthEng, Lukas M.2016-10-182016-10-182016-10-18201610.1021/acs.nanolett.6b02167https://infoscience.epfl.ch/handle/20.500.14299/130242WOS:000383412100045CuO2SeO3 is an insulating material that hosts topologically nontrivial spin whirls, so-called skyrmions, and exhibits magnetoelectric coupling allowing to manipulate these skyrmions by means of electric fields. We report magnetic force microscopy imaging of the real-space spin structure on the surface of a.. bulk single crystal of CuO2SeO3. Based on measurements of the electric polarization using Kelvin-probe force microscopy, we develop a heuristic description of the magnetoelectric properties in CuO2SeO3. The model successfully describes the dependency of the electric polarization on the magnetization in all magnetically modulated phases.Magnetic force microscopyKelvin-probe force microscopyskyrmionmagnetoelectricityCuO2SeO3text::journal::journal article::research article