Magnetic recording head

A magnetic recording head, comprising:

• multiple magnetic layers, a first of the multiple magnetic layers producing an initial magnetic field and others of the multiple magnetic layers producing progressively smaller magnetic fields, the magnetic fields produced by the multiple magnetic layers acting to reduce a net hard axis magnetic field at a portion of a magnetic recording medium.

A magnetic recording head comprising:

• means for producing an easy axis field and a hard axis field relative to a magnetic recording medium;
• and
• means for reducing the hard axis field.

A magnetic recording head comprising:

• a first pole having multiple magnetic layers separated by multiple gap layers, the multiple magnetic layers comprising a write pole which produces a first hard axis field and a first auxiliary pole that produces a first auxiliary field that opposes the first hard axis field resulting in a reduced net hard axis field, the write pole and the first auxiliary pole being separated by a first gap layer comprised of a material that is less magnetically conducting than the write pole and the first auxiliary pole, the write pole being located upstream from the first auxiliary pole relative to a perpendicular magnetic recording medium, a portion of the first auxiliary pole existing in a region between a surface of the perpendicular magnetic recording medium and five microns from a surface of the perpendicular magnetic recording medium.