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Title: Deep learning the properties of inorganic perovskites

Journal Article · · Modelling and Simulation in Materials Science and Engineering

We report the ability to accurately and quickly predict the stability of materials and their structural and electronic properties remains a grand challenge in materials science. Density functional theory is widely used as a means of predicting these material properties, but is known to be computationally expensive and scales as the cube of the number of electrons in the material’s unit cell. In this article, for a previously published dataset of inorganic perovskites, we show that a single neural network model using only the elemental properties of the compounds’ constituents can predict lattice constants to within 0.1 Å, heat of formation to within 0.2 eV, and band gaps to within 0.7 eV RMSE. We also compare the performance of the trained network to two widely used regression techniques, namely random forest and Kernel ridge regression, and find that the neural network’s predictions are more accurate for each of the properties. The simultaneous accurate prediction of multiple key properties of technologically relevant materials is promising for rational design and optimization in known and novel chemical spaces.

Research Organization:
Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)
Grant/Contract Number:
AC02-06CH11357
OSTI ID:
1899174
Journal Information:
Modelling and Simulation in Materials Science and Engineering, Journal Name: Modelling and Simulation in Materials Science and Engineering Journal Issue: 3 Vol. 30; ISSN 0965-0393
Publisher:
IOP PublishingCopyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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