Abstract: A thermo-magnetic method for recording of a bit of information in each domain of an amorphous alloy thin-film layer supporting small stable domains. Each domain in the recording layer is first magnetized in a first direction, corresponding to a first binary state, by exposure to a saturation magnetic field. The remaining binary state is temporarily or permanently recorded in a particular domain by heating (to a lower or higher temperature) that domain volume of the recording layer above a predetermined temperature, but less than the melting temperature of the layer material, and thereafter cooling the heated domain in the presence of a bias magnetic field of direction opposite to, and magnitude less than, the saturation field. The binary state of each domain is read by interrogation with a beam of energy and utilization of differential effects between the interrogation beam and the direction of the magnetic field in the interrogated domain.

Abstract: magnetic toner images are transferred from a latent magnetic image on a magnetic recording surface to hard copy medium, which may be paper, by (1) disposing the hard copy medium in contact with a toner image; and (2) applying a transfer magnetic field in the region of contact. The transfer magnetic field is directed tangential to the recording surface and has a gradient directed from the recording surface to the copy medium. The intensity of the magnetic transfer field may be greater or less than the intensity which is necessary to erase the latent magnetic image in the magnetic recording surface.