of such an occurrence is increased when thermal fly height control is used due the tendency to extend the relative position of sensitive read and write head structures toward the media surface resulting from thermal expansion effects fig9 is a partial cross section view 900 of a thin film perpendicular head having embedded electrostatic dissipation layers in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention layers 902 904 906 908 and 910 are electrostatic dissipative layers inserted within the perpendicular head structure to drain electrical charge from the storage media surface not shown in a controlled manner layers 904 and 906 protect mr read sensor 203 and shield layers 202 and 204 layers 908 and 910 protect write head components 216 214 212 and 206 layers 904 906 908 and 910 extend out from the abs a dimension d p as described in the foregoing embodiments of fig5 8 layers 902 904 906 908 and 910 have the same material properties and compositions as the static dissipative layers described above they are also manufactured in a manner similar to that used for longitudinal heads fig1 is a partial cross section view 1000 of a thin film perpendicular head having embedded electrostatic dissipation layers in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention in this embodiment layers 902 and 904 of fig9 have been combined into layer 1002 to provide better protection from contact of the slider portion of the head assembly fig1 is a.