Patent ID: 7151716

Claim:
A method of manufacturing a magneto-optical recording medium, comprising forming, in a stacking manner, on a disk substrate: a recording layer having a recording magnetic domain in which information is recorded according to a magnetization direction vertical to a surface of a film; a transfer control layer magnetically coupled to the recording layer, wherein the transfer control layer is a magnetic film, the magnetic film has a direction of magnetization opposite to the direction of magnetization of the recording layer, in the temperature range below the temperature at which the reproduction magnetic domain is transferred to the reproduction layer; and a reproduction layer to which information recorded in the recording layer is transferred to form a reproduction magnetic domain of the magnetization direction vertical to the surface of the film by magnetic coupling, wherein when the magnetic film is in at least part of the temperature range in which the reproduction magnetic domain of the reproduction layer transferred from the recording layer via a reproduction assist layer is stable, the magnetic film is at a temperature equal to or above a Curie point.