Thin Fe-Si-AI-N films have been developed for the main pole of single-pole heads. This film has good magnetic properties, including a high saturation magnetization of 1080 emu/cc, a high permeability of 2500, and a low coercivity of 0.3 Oe, even if the film thickness is 0.23 pm. A narrow-track single-pole head having a main pole 2.6 rm wide and 0.23 pm thick was made using Fe-Si-AI-N film and its read-write characteristics were investigated. In combination with a Co-Cr/Ni-Fe double-layer flexible disk medium, a normalized reproduced voltage of about 75 nVo_p/pm'Tom/s and a CN ratio of 51 dB were obtained at 50 kFRPI(about 6 MHz).