Machine Learning Recognition of hybrid lead halide perovskites and perovskite-related structures out of X-ray diffraction patterns

TL;DR

This paper presents a machine learning approach using decision trees to rapidly classify hybrid lead halide perovskite structures from X-ray diffraction data, achieving high accuracy and simplifying complex data interpretation.

Contribution

The study introduces a simple, effective ML classification method for identifying structure types of hybrid lead halides from XRD data, improving speed and accuracy.

Findings

Average prediction accuracy of 86% for inorganic substructure dimensionality.

Validation on experimental data achieved 100% accuracy for dimension prediction.

Method significantly simplifies and accelerates XRD data interpretation.

Abstract

Identification of crystal structures is a crucial stage in the exploration of novel functional materials. This procedure is usually time-consuming and can be false-positive or false-negative. This necessitates a significant level of expert proficiency in the field of crystallography and, especially, requires deep experience in perovskite - related structures of hybrid perovskites. Our work is devoted to the machine learning classification of structure types of hybrid lead halides based on available X-ray diffraction data. Here, we proposed a simple approach to quickly identify of dimensionality of inorganic substructures, types of lead halide polyhedra connectivity and structure types using common powder XRD data and ML - decision tree classification model. The average accuracy of our ML algorithm in predicting the dimensionality of inorganic substructure, type of connection of lead halide and inorganic substructure topology by theoretically calculated XRD pattern among 14 most common structure types reaches 0.86+-0.05, 0.827+-0.028 and 0.71+-0.05, respectively. The validation of our decision tree classification ML model on experimental XRD data shows the accuracies of 1.0 and 0.82 for the dimension and structure type prediction. Thus, our approach can significantly simplify and accelerate the interpretation of highly complicated XRD data for hybrid lead halides.