doi:10.1109/TPEL.2012.2185067engSarnago, H.Mediano, A.Lucía, O.High efficiency ac-ac power electronic converter applied to domestic induction heatingART-2012-73255This paper presents the analysis and design of a new ac-ac resonant converter applied to domestic induction heating. The proposed topology, based on the half-bridge series resonant inverter, uses only two diodes to rectify the mains voltage. The proposed converter can operate with zero-voltage switching during both switch-on and switch-off transitions. Moreover, this topology doubles the output voltage, and therefore, the current in the load is reduced for the same output power. As a consequence, the converter efficiency is significantly improved. The analytical and simulation results have been verified by means of a 3600-W induction heating prototype. An efficiency study has been carried out, obtaining values higher than 96%.2012http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/16588110.1109/TPEL.2012.2185067http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/165881oai:zaguan.unizar.es:165881IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics 27, 8 (2012), 3676-3684All rights reservedhttp://www.europeana.eu/rights/rr-f/info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess