We demonstrate an ultrathin and semitransparent anisotropic and spin Hall magnetoresistance sensor based on NiFe/Pt heterostructure. The use of spin-orbit torque effective field for transverse biasing allows to reduce the total thickness of the sensors down to 3 - 4 nm and thereby leading to the semitransparency. Despite the extremely simple design, the spin-orbit torque effective field biased NiFe/Pt sensor exhibits level of linearity and sensitivity comparable to those of sensors using more complex linearization schemes. In a proof-of-concept design using a full Wheatstone bridge comprising of four sensing elements, we obtained a sensitivity up to 202.9 m{\Omega}/Oe, linearity error below 5%, and a detection limit down to 20 nT. The transmittance of the sensor is over 50% in the visible range.
@article{arxiv.1707.00231,
title = {Semitransparent anisotropic and spin Hall magnetoresistance sensor enabled by spin-orbit toque biasing},
author = {Yumeng Yang and Yanjun Xu and Hang Xie and Baoxi Xu and Yihong Wu},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1707.00231},
year = {2017}
}