A novel single-pole head on a flying slider is presented as a high fre
quency writing head. The main pole of the head is driven with three th
in-film conductor layers to have a short magnetic circuit path. Thus,
a low inductance of around 10 nH and a high writing sensitivity of les
s than 0.03 AT(p-p) is obtained. The writing field distribution is sho
wn to be the same as a regular single-pole head by computer simulation
s. The recording performance of the head is examined and the high writ
ing sensitivity is demonstrated.