A perpendicular recording head has a second pole piece which includes a
bottom ferromagnetic shaping layer and a top ferromagnetic probe layer.
Each of these layers has a flare point where the layers first commence to
widen after the ABS with the flare point of the shaping layer being
located between an air bearing surface (ABS) of the head and the flare
point of the probe layer. Further, the probe layer has a probe at the ABS
which has a decreasing width from its top to its bottom to provide a
trapezoidal shape which minimizes side writing due to skew of the probe at
outermost and innermost circular tracks of a rotating magnetic disk.
