Tackling data scarcity with transfer learning: a case study of thickness characterization from optical spectra of perovskite thin films
Transfer learning (TL) increasingly becomes an important tool in handling data scarcity, especially when applying machine learning (ML) to novel materials science problems. In autonomous workflows to optimize optoelectronic thin films, high-throughput thickness characterization is often required as...
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Published in | Digital discovery Vol. 2; no. 5; pp. 1334 - 1346 |
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Main Authors | , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |
Format | Journal Article |
Language | English |
Published |
09.10.2023
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Summary: | Transfer learning (TL) increasingly becomes an important tool in handling data scarcity, especially when applying machine learning (ML) to novel materials science problems. In autonomous workflows to optimize optoelectronic thin films, high-throughput thickness characterization is often required as a downstream process. To surmount data scarcity and enable high-throughput thickness characterization, we propose a transfer learning workflow centering an ML model called
thicknessML
that predicts thickness from UV-Vis spectrophotometry. We demonstrate the transfer learning workflow from a generic source domain (of materials with various bandgaps) to a specific target domain (of perovskite materials), where the target-domain data are from just 18 refractive indices from the literature. While featuring perovskite materials in this study, the target domain easily extends to other material classes with a few corresponding literature refractive indices. With accuracy defined as being within-10%, the accuracy rate of perovskite thickness prediction reaches 92.2 ± 3.6% (mean ± standard deviation) with TL compared to 81.8 ± 11.7% without. As an experimental validation,
thicknessML
with TL yields a 10.5% mean absolute percentage error (MAPE) for six deposited perovskite films.
thicknessML
predicts film thickness from reflection and transmission spectra. Transfer learning enables thickness prediction of different materials with good performance. Transfer learning also bridges the gap between simulation and experiment. |
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Bibliography: | https://doi.org/10.1039/d2dd00149g Electronic supplementary information (ESI) available. See DOI |
ISSN: | 2635-098X 2635-098X |
DOI: | 10.1039/d2dd00149g |