MAGNETIC RECORDING METHOD

PURPOSE:To record a picture with high resolution by applying signal currents according to the relative locomotion of a magnetic substance layer and a catwhisker contacted with one side of the layer and applying a magnetic field from the other side of the magnetic substance layer in response to the timing. CONSTITUTION:The catwhisker 5 for recording is contacted with the ferromagnetic substance layer 1 of a magnetic recording medium 4 consisting of the ferromagnetic substance layer 1, which made of a ferromagnetic substance having the Curie temperature or compensation temperature of a comparatively low temperature and can be Joule-heated, a conductor layer 2 and a ferromagnetic substance layer 3, a Curie temperature thereof is equal to or higher than the ferromagnetic substance layer 1, while the ferromagnetic substance layer 3 is given an AC magnetization pattern 8 by means of a magnetic head 7. The catwhisker 5 is supplied with voltage signals 6 corresponding to the pictures, currents are flowed through a ground 9 connected to the conductor layer 2 in the direction of an arrow 10, Joule heat is generated only to a section, through which currents flow, in the ferromagnetic substance layer 1 and the temperature is elevated, only the high-temperature section of the magnetization pattern 8 is transferred selectively by the effect of thermoremanent remagnetization, and magnetization patterns corresponding to the pictures are formed onto the ferromagnetic substance layer 1.