A magneto-optical recording medium has a domain wall displacement layer, a recording
layer for accumulating information and a switching layer arranged between said
domain wall displacement layer and said recording layer and having a Curie temperature
lower than those of the latter two layers. The domain wall displacement layer,
the switching layer and the recording layer are coupled by exchange coupling at
temperature not higher than the Curie temperature of the switching layer. The saturation
magnetization of the domain wall displacement layer and the recording layer are
in opposite directions to each other when the layers are coupled by exchange coupling
at a temperature close to the Curie temperature of the switching layer.
