Magneto-optical recording medium

A magneto-optical recording medium comprising:

• a recording layer,
• an intermediate layer in which an area for interrupting an exchange coupling to said recording layer is formed at a predetermined temperature or more, and
• a reproducing layer which is made of a perpendicularly magnetized film whose domain wall coercivity is relatively smaller and whose domain wall mobility is relatively larger as compared with said recording layer around a predetermined temperature,
• wherein:
• when said reproducing layer, said intermediate layer, and said recording layer respectively have Curie temperatures of Tc1, Tc2, and Tc3, Tc1, Tc2, and Tc3 satisfy a condition of Tc2<Tc1<Tc3, and
• said reproducing layer serves as a perpendicularly magnetized film at a temperature of not less than 25.degree. C. and has a composition which allows rare earth metal magnetic moment to normally exceed transition metal magnetic moment at a temperature of not more than Tc1 with respect to a compensation composition which allows rare earth metal magnetic moment and transition metal magnetic moment to balance each other.

A magneto-optical recording medium comprising:

• a recording layer,
• an intermediate layer in which an area for interrupting an exchange coupling to said recording layer is formed at a predetermined temperature or more, and
• a reproducing layer which is made of a perpendicularly magnetized film whose domain wall coercivity is relatively smaller and whose domain wall mobility is relatively larger as compared with said recording layer around a predetermined temperature,
• wherein when said reproducing layer, said intermediate layer, and said recording layer respectively have Curie temperatures of Tc1, Tc2, and Tc3, Tc1, Tc2, and Tc3 satisfy a condition of Tc2<Tc1<Tc3, and
• said reproducing layer has a compensation temperature, and a composition of said reproducing layer is arranged so as to set the compensation temperature at a temperature which does not prevent a shift of a domain wall in the area whose temperature is increased to more than a Curie temperature of said reproducing layer.