Patent ID: 8599520

Claim:
A magnetic read transducer having an air-bearing surface (ABS) and being coupled with a writer including a pole having writer nose chisel angle, the magnetic read transducer comprising: a first shield; a second shield; and a read sensor between the first shield and the second shield, the read sensor extending along a stripe height direction perpendicular to the ABS and having at least one sidewall extending from the ABS at an angle from the stripe height direction, a first portion of the read sensor at the ABS having a first width in a track width direction parallel to the ABS, a second portion of the read sensor recessed from the ABS along the stripe height direction and having a second width in the track width direction, the second width being greater than the first width, wherein the angle corresponds to the writer nose chisel angle, wherein the writer nose chisel angle is an actual writer nose chisel angle and wherein the angle is within ten degrees of the actual writer nose chisel angle.