Resumen: This paper presents a comparative evaluation of silicon carbide power devices for the domestic induction heating (IH) application, which currently has a major industrial, economic and social impact. The compared technologies include MOSFETs, normally on and normally off JFETs, as well as BJTs. These devices have been compared according to different figure-of-merit evaluating conduction and switching performance, efficiency, impact of temperature, as well as other driving and protection issues. To perform the proposed evaluation, a versatile test platform has been developed. As a result of this study, several differential features are identified and discussed, taking into account the pursued induction heating application. Idioma: Inglés DOI: 10.1109/TIE.2015.2405057 Año: 2015 Publicado en: IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics 62, 8 (2015), 4795-4804 ISSN: 0278-0046 Factor impacto JCR: 6.383 (2015) Categ. JCR: AUTOMATION & CONTROL SYSTEMS rank: 1 / 59 = 0.017 (2015) - Q1 - T1 Categ. JCR: INSTRUMENTS & INSTRUMENTATION rank: 1 / 56 = 0.018 (2015) - Q1 - T1 Categ. JCR: ENGINEERING, ELECTRICAL & ELECTRONIC rank: 4 / 255 = 0.016 (2015) - Q1 - T1 Factor impacto SCIMAGO: 2.476 - Electrical and Electronic Engineering (Q1) - Control and Systems Engineering (Q1) - Computer Science Applications (Q1)