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Varughese B, Manna S, Loeffler TD, Batra R, Cherukara MJ, Sankaranarayanan SKRS. Active and Transfer Learning of High-Dimensional Neural Network Potentials for Transition Metals. ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES 2024. [PMID: 38593033 DOI: 10.1021/acsami.3c15399] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/11/2024]
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Classical molecular dynamics (MD) simulations represent a very popular and powerful tool for materials modeling and design. The predictive power of MD hinges on the ability of the interatomic potential to capture the underlying physics and chemistry. There have been decades of seminal work on developing interatomic potentials, albeit with a focus predominantly on capturing the properties of bulk materials. Such physics-based models, while extensively deployed for predicting the dynamics and properties of nanoscale systems over the past two decades, tend to perform poorly in predicting nanoscale potential energy surfaces (PESs) when compared to high-fidelity first-principles calculations. These limitations stem from the lack of flexibility in such models, which rely on a predefined functional form. Machine learning (ML) models and approaches have emerged as a viable alternative to capture the diverse size-dependent cluster geometries, nanoscale dynamics, and the complex nanoscale PESs, without sacrificing the bulk properties. Here, we introduce an ML workflow that combines transfer and active learning strategies to develop high-dimensional neural networks (NNs) for capturing the cluster and bulk properties for several different transition metals with applications in catalysis, microelectronics, and energy storage, to name a few. Our NN first learns the bulk PES from the high-quality physics-based models in literature and subsequently augments this learning via retraining with a higher-fidelity first-principles training data set to concurrently capture both the nanoscale and bulk PES. Our workflow departs from status-quo in its ability to learn from a sparsely sampled data set that nonetheless covers a diverse range of cluster configurations from near-equilibrium to highly nonequilibrium as well as learning strategies that iteratively improve the fingerprinting depending on model fidelity. All the developed models are rigorously tested against an extensive first-principles data set of energies and forces of cluster configurations as well as several properties of bulk configurations for 10 different transition metals. Our approach is material agnostic and provides a methodology to transfer and build upon the learnings from decades of seminal work in molecular simulations on to a new generation of ML-trained potentials to accelerate materials discovery and design.
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Affiliation(s)
- Bilvin Varughese
- Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Illinois, Chicago, Illinois 60607, United States
- Center for Nanoscale Materials, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, Illinois 60439, United States
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- Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Illinois, Chicago, Illinois 60607, United States
- Center for Nanoscale Materials, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, Illinois 60439, United States
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- Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Illinois, Chicago, Illinois 60607, United States
- Center for Nanoscale Materials, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, Illinois 60439, United States
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- Center for Nanoscale Materials, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, Illinois 60439, United States
- Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai 600036, India
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- Center for Nanoscale Materials, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, Illinois 60439, United States
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- Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Illinois, Chicago, Illinois 60607, United States
- Advanced Photon Source, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, Illinois 60439, United States
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SAW Resonators and Filters Based on Sc0.43Al0.57N on Single Crystal and Polycrystalline Diamond. MICROMACHINES 2022; 13:mi13071061. [PMID: 35888879 PMCID: PMC9316532 DOI: 10.3390/mi13071061] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/06/2022] [Revised: 06/28/2022] [Accepted: 06/29/2022] [Indexed: 02/01/2023]
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The massive data transfer rates of nowadays mobile communication technologies demand devices not only with outstanding electric performances but with example stability in a wide range of conditions. Surface acoustic wave (SAW) devices provide a high Q-factor and properties inherent to the employed materials: thermal and chemical stability or low propagation losses. SAW resonators and filters based on Sc0.43Al0.57N synthetized by reactive magnetron sputtering on single crystal and polycrystalline diamond substrates were fabricated and evaluated. Our SAW resonators showed high electromechanical coupling coefficients for Rayleigh and Sezawa modes, propagating at 1.2 GHz and 2.3 GHz, respectively. Finally, SAW filters were fabricated on Sc0.43Al0.57N/diamond heterostructures, with working frequencies above 4.7 GHz and ~200 MHz bandwidths, confirming that these devices are promising candidates in developing 5G technology.
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Machine learning the metastable phase diagram of covalently bonded carbon. Nat Commun 2022; 13:3251. [PMID: 35668085 PMCID: PMC9170764 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-022-30820-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/18/2022] [Accepted: 05/16/2022] [Indexed: 11/08/2022] Open
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Conventional phase diagram generation involves experimentation to provide an initial estimate of the set of thermodynamically accessible phases and their boundaries, followed by use of phenomenological models to interpolate between the available experimental data points and extrapolate to experimentally inaccessible regions. Such an approach, combined with high throughput first-principles calculations and data-mining techniques, has led to exhaustive thermodynamic databases (e.g. compatible with the CALPHAD method), albeit focused on the reduced set of phases observed at distinct thermodynamic equilibria. In contrast, materials during their synthesis, operation, or processing, may not reach their thermodynamic equilibrium state but, instead, remain trapped in a local (metastable) free energy minimum, which may exhibit desirable properties. Here, we introduce an automated workflow that integrates first-principles physics and atomistic simulations with machine learning (ML), and high-performance computing to allow rapid exploration of the metastable phases to construct "metastable" phase diagrams for materials far-from-equilibrium. Using carbon as a prototypical system, we demonstrate automated metastable phase diagram construction to map hundreds of metastable states ranging from near equilibrium to far-from-equilibrium (400 meV/atom). We incorporate the free energy calculations into a neural-network-based learning of the equations of state that allows for efficient construction of metastable phase diagrams. We use the metastable phase diagram and identify domains of relative stability and synthesizability of metastable materials. High temperature high pressure experiments using a diamond anvil cell on graphite sample coupled with high-resolution transmission electron microscopy (HRTEM) confirm our metastable phase predictions. In particular, we identify the previously ambiguous structure of n-diamond as a cubic-analog of diaphite-like lonsdaelite phase.
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A Novel Methodology to Obtain the Mechanical Properties of Membranes by Means of Dynamic Tests. MEMBRANES 2022; 12:membranes12030288. [PMID: 35323765 PMCID: PMC8951155 DOI: 10.3390/membranes12030288] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/28/2022] [Revised: 02/22/2022] [Accepted: 02/26/2022] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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A new, non-destructive methodology is proposed in this work in order to determine the mechanical properties of membrane using vibro-acoustic tests. This procedure is based on the dynamic analysis of the behavior of the membrane. When the membrane is subjected to a sound excitation it responds by vibrating based on its modal characteristics and this modal parameter is directly related to its mechanical properties. The paper is structured in two parts. First, the theoretical bases of the test are presented. The interaction between the sound waves and the membrane (mechano-acoustic coupling) is complex and requires meticulous study. It was broadly studied by means of numerical simulations. A summary of this study is shown. Aspects, such as the position of the sound source, the measuring points, the dimensions of the membrane, the frequency range, and the magnitudes to be measured, among others, were evaluated. The validity of modal analysis curve-fitting techniques to extract the modal parameter from the data measures was also explored. In the second part, an experimental test was performed to evaluate the validity of the method. A membrane of the same material with three different diameters was measured with the aim of estimating the value of the Young’s modulus. The procedure was applied and satisfactory results were obtained. Additionally, the experiment shed light on aspects that must be taken account in future experiments.
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Manna S, Loeffler TD, Batra R, Banik S, Chan H, Varughese B, Sasikumar K, Sternberg M, Peterka T, Cherukara MJ, Gray SK, Sumpter BG, Sankaranarayanan SKRS. Learning in continuous action space for developing high dimensional potential energy models. Nat Commun 2022; 13:368. [PMID: 35042872 PMCID: PMC8766468 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-27849-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/27/2021] [Accepted: 12/13/2021] [Indexed: 12/17/2022] Open
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Reinforcement learning (RL) approaches that combine a tree search with deep learning have found remarkable success in searching exorbitantly large, albeit discrete action spaces, as in chess, Shogi and Go. Many real-world materials discovery and design applications, however, involve multi-dimensional search problems and learning domains that have continuous action spaces. Exploring high-dimensional potential energy models of materials is an example. Traditionally, these searches are time consuming (often several years for a single bulk system) and driven by human intuition and/or expertise and more recently by global/local optimization searches that have issues with convergence and/or do not scale well with the search dimensionality. Here, in a departure from discrete action and other gradient-based approaches, we introduce a RL strategy based on decision trees that incorporates modified rewards for improved exploration, efficient sampling during playouts and a "window scaling scheme" for enhanced exploitation, to enable efficient and scalable search for continuous action space problems. Using high-dimensional artificial landscapes and control RL problems, we successfully benchmark our approach against popular global optimization schemes and state of the art policy gradient methods, respectively. We demonstrate its efficacy to parameterize potential models (physics based and high-dimensional neural networks) for 54 different elemental systems across the periodic table as well as alloys. We analyze error trends across different elements in the latent space and trace their origin to elemental structural diversity and the smoothness of the element energy surface. Broadly, our RL strategy will be applicable to many other physical science problems involving search over continuous action spaces.
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- Sukriti Manna
- Center for Nanoscale Materials, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, IL, 60439, USA
- Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Illinois, Chicago, IL, 60607, USA
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- Center for Nanoscale Materials, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, IL, 60439, USA
- Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Illinois, Chicago, IL, 60607, USA
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- Center for Nanoscale Materials, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, IL, 60439, USA
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- Center for Nanoscale Materials, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, IL, 60439, USA
- Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Illinois, Chicago, IL, 60607, USA
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- Center for Nanoscale Materials, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, IL, 60439, USA
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- Center for Nanoscale Materials, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, IL, 60439, USA
- Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Illinois, Chicago, IL, 60607, USA
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- Center for Nanoscale Materials, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, IL, 60439, USA
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- Center for Nanoscale Materials, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, IL, 60439, USA
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- Math and Computer Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, IL, 60439, USA
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- Advanced Photon Source, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, IL, 60439, USA
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- Center for Nanoscale Materials, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, IL, 60439, USA
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- Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, 37831, USA
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- Center for Nanoscale Materials, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, IL, 60439, USA.
- Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Illinois, Chicago, IL, 60607, USA.
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Noor-A-Alam M, Olszewski OZ, Campanella H, Nolan M. Large Piezoelectric Response and Ferroelectricity in Li and V/Nb/Ta Co-Doped w-AlN. ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES 2021; 13:944-954. [PMID: 33382599 DOI: 10.1021/acsami.0c19620] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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Enhancement of piezoelectricity in w-AlN is desired for many devices including resonators for next-generation wireless communication systems, sensors, and vibrational energy harvesters. Based on density functional theory, we show that Li and X (X = V, Nb, and Ta) co-doping in 1Li:1X ratio transforms brittle w-AlN crystal to ductile, along with broadening the compositional freedom for significantly enhanced piezoelectric response, promising them to be good alternatives to expensive Sc. Interestingly, these co-doped w-AlN also show quite large spontaneous electric polarization (e.g., about 1 C/m2 for Li0.125X0.125Al0.75N) with the possibility of ferroelectric polarization switching, opening new possibilities in wurtzite nitrides. An increase in piezoelectric stress constant (e33) with a decrease in elastic constant (C33) results in an enhancement of piezoelectric strain constant (d33), which is desired for improving the performance of bulk acoustic wave (BAW) resonators for high-frequency radio frequency (RF) signals. Also, these co-doped w-AlN are potential lead-free piezoelectric materials for energy harvesting and sensors as they improve the longitudinal electromechanical coupling constant (K332), transverse piezoelectric strain constant (d31), and figure of merit (FOM) for power generation. However, the enhancement in K332 is not as pronounced as that in d33 because co-doping increases dielectric constant. The longitudinal acoustic wave velocity (7.09 km/s) of Li0.1875Ta0.1875Al0.625N is quite comparable to that of commercially used piezoelectric LiNbO3 or LiTaO3 in special cuts (about 5-7 km/s) despite the fact that the acoustic wave velocities, important parameters for designing resonators or sensors, decrease with co-doping or Sc concentration.
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- Mohammad Noor-A-Alam
- Tyndall National Institute, Lee Maltings, Dyke Parade, University College Cork, Cork T12 R5CP, Ireland
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- Tyndall National Institute, Lee Maltings, Dyke Parade, University College Cork, Cork T12 R5CP, Ireland
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- Tyndall National Institute, Lee Maltings, Dyke Parade, University College Cork, Cork T12 R5CP, Ireland
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- Tyndall National Institute, Lee Maltings, Dyke Parade, University College Cork, Cork T12 R5CP, Ireland
- NIBEC, School of Engineering, Ulster University, Shore Road, Antrim BT37 0QB, Northern Ireland
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Loeffler TD, Manna S, Patra TK, Chan H, Narayanan B, Sankaranarayanan S. Active Learning A Neural Network Model For Gold Clusters & Bulk From Sparse First Principles Training Data. ChemCatChem 2020. [DOI: 10.1002/cctc.202000774] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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- Troy D. Loeffler
- Center for Nanoscale Materials Argonne National Laboratory Lemont Illinois 60439 United States
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- Center for Nanoscale Materials Argonne National Laboratory Lemont Illinois 60439 United States
- Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering University of Illinois Chicago Illinois 60607 United States
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- Department of Chemical Engineering Indian Institute of Technology Madras Chennai TN 600036 India
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- Center for Nanoscale Materials Argonne National Laboratory Lemont Illinois 60439 United States
- Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering University of Illinois Chicago Illinois 60607 United States
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering University of Louisville Louisville KY 40292 USA
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- Center for Nanoscale Materials Argonne National Laboratory Lemont Illinois 60439 United States
- Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering University of Illinois Chicago Illinois 60607 United States
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Krey M, Hähnlein B, Tonisch K, Krischok S, Töpfer H. Automated Parameter Extraction Of ScAlN MEMS Devices Using An Extended Euler-Bernoulli Beam Theory. SENSORS (BASEL, SWITZERLAND) 2020; 20:E1001. [PMID: 32069884 PMCID: PMC7071012 DOI: 10.3390/s20041001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/19/2019] [Revised: 01/23/2020] [Accepted: 02/06/2020] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Magnetoelectric sensors provide the ability to measure magnetic fields down to the pico tesla range and are currently the subject of intense research. Such sensors usually combine a piezoelectric and a magnetostrictive material, so that magnetically induced stresses can be measured electrically. Scandium aluminium nitride gained a lot of attraction in the last few years due to its enhanced piezoelectric properties. Its usage as resonantly driven microelectromechanical system (MEMS) in such sensors is accompanied by a manifold of influences from crystal growth leading to impacts on the electrical and mechanical parameters. Usual investigations via nanoindentation allow a fast determination of mechanical properties with the disadvantage of lacking the access to the anisotropy of specific properties. Such anisotropy effects are investigated in this work in terms of the Young's modulus and the strain on basis of a MEMS structures through a newly developed fully automated procedure of eigenfrequency fitting based on a new non-Lorentzian fit function and subsequent analysis using an extended Euler-Bernoulli theory. The introduced procedure is able to increase the resolution of the derived parameters compared to the common nanoindentation technique and hence allows detailed investigations of the behavior of magnetoelectric sensors, especially of the magnetic field dependent Young's modulus of the magnetostrictive layer.
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- Maximilian Krey
- Advanced Electromagnetics Group, Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology, Technische Universität Ilmenau, Postfach 100565, 98684 Ilmenau, Germany;
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- Technical Physics 1 Group, Institute of Micro- and Nanotechnologies (IMN MacroNano), Technische Universität Ilmenau, Postfach 100565, 98684 Ilmenau, Germany; (B.H.); (K.T.); (S.K.)
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- Technical Physics 1 Group, Institute of Micro- and Nanotechnologies (IMN MacroNano), Technische Universität Ilmenau, Postfach 100565, 98684 Ilmenau, Germany; (B.H.); (K.T.); (S.K.)
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- Technical Physics 1 Group, Institute of Micro- and Nanotechnologies (IMN MacroNano), Technische Universität Ilmenau, Postfach 100565, 98684 Ilmenau, Germany; (B.H.); (K.T.); (S.K.)
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- Advanced Electromagnetics Group, Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology, Technische Universität Ilmenau, Postfach 100565, 98684 Ilmenau, Germany;
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