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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 12, 1995
Filed:
Aug. 17, 1993
Yoshio Fujii, Amagasaki, JP;
Tatsuya Fukami, Amagasaki, JP;
Takashi Tokunaga, Amagasaki, JP;
Yoshiyuki Nakaki, Amagasaki, JP;
Kazuhiko Tsutsumi, Amagasaki, JP;
Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A magneto-optical recording medium allowing both direct overwriting by light power modulation and superresolutive reproduction, and a recording/reproduction method therefor are provided. The magneto-optical recording medium includes six magnetic layers of which adjacent layers are coupled by an exchange force thereof, the first magnetic layer being made of a rare earth-transition metal alloy or a ferromagnetic material containing a magnetic transition metal, the second to sixth magnetic layers being each composed of a rare earth-transition metal alloy. Each of the magnetic layers has a predetermined Curie temperature, and the respective transition metal sub-lattice magnetization directions of the first to third magnetic layers (including the magnetization direction of the first layer) are aligned in one direction at room temperature while at the same time those of the fourth to sixth magnetic layers are aligned in one direction at room temperature. In the recording/reproduction method there are applied external magnetic fields of the same direction for recording and for reproduction, respectively.