“…It stabilizes chiral magnetic structures-cycloids, spirals, 2D vortices, skyrmions, and 3D hopfions-affects the spin dynamics, and gives impact to magnetoelectricity. Magnetoelectric effect in improper multiferroics is mainly attributed to DMI; however, the physical mechanisms, such as DMI-induced polarization of electronic orbitals [5], ferroelectric lattice displacements [6], and the stabilization of incommensurate spin structures, which, in its turn, hosts ferroelectricity [7], are still under discussion. Nevertheless, the existing relationship between the ME effect and DMI allows for the expectation that correct implementation of DMI in multiferroic heterostructures can lead to an improvement in magnetoelectric properties.…”