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This paper presents a new approach for predicting thermodynamic properties of perovskites that harnesses deep learning and crystal structure fingerprinting based on Hirshfeld surface analysis. It is demonstrated that convolutional neural network methods capture critical features embedded in two-dimensional Hirshfeld surface fingerprints that enable a quantitative assessment of the formation energy of perovskites. Building on our recent work on lattice parameter prediction from Hirshfeld surface calculations, we show how transfer learning can be used to speed up the training of the neural network, allowing multiple properties to be trained using the same feature extraction layers. We also predict formation energies for various perovskite polymorphs, and our predictions are found to give generally improved performance over a well-established graph network method, but with the methods better suited to different types of datasets. Analysis of the structure types within the dataset reveals the Hirshfeld surface-based method to excel for the less symmetric and similar structures, while the graph network performs better for very symmetric and similar structures.
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Machine-learning structural and electronic properties of metal halide perovskites using a hierarchical convolutional neural network
Abstract The development of statistical tools based on machine learning (ML) and deep networks is actively sought for materials design problems. While structure-property relationships can be accurately determined using quantum mechanical methods, these first-principles calculations are computationally demanding, limiting their use in screening a large set of candidate structures. Herein, we use convolutional neural networks to develop a predictive model for the electronic properties of metal halide perovskites (MHPs) that have a billions-range materials design space. We show that a well-designed hierarchical ML approach has a higher fidelity in predicting properties of the MHPs compared to straight-forward methods. In this architecture, each neural network element has a designated role in the estimation process from predicting complex features of the perovskites such as lattice constant and octahedral till angle to narrowing down possible ranges for the values of interest. Using the hierarchical ML scheme, the obtained root-mean-square errors for the lattice constants, octahedral angle and bandgap for the MHPs are 0.01 Å, 5°, and 0.02 eV, respectively. Our study underscores the importance of a careful network design and a hierarchical approach to alleviate issues associated with imbalanced dataset distributions, which is invariably common in materials datasets.
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- Award ID(s):
- 1809085
- PAR ID:
- 10418331
- Date Published:
- Journal Name:
- npj Computational Materials
- Volume:
- 6
- Issue:
- 1
- ISSN:
- 2057-3960
- Format(s):
- Medium: X
- Sponsoring Org:
- National Science Foundation
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