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Bandgap prediction of two-dimensional materials using machine learning

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  • Yu Zhang
  • Wenjing Xu
  • Guangjie Liu
  • Zhiyong Zhang
  • Jinlong Zhu
  • Meng Li

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The bandgap of two-dimensional (2D) materials plays an important role in their applications to various devices. For instance, the gapless nature of graphene limits the use of this material to semiconductor device applications, whereas the indirect bandgap of molybdenum disulfide is suitable for electrical and photo-device applications. Therefore, predicting the bandgap rapidly and accurately for a given 2D material structure has great scientific significance in the manufacturing of semiconductor devices. Compared to the extremely high computation cost of conventional first-principles calculations, machine learning (ML) based on statistics may be a promising alternative to predicting bandgaps. Although ML algorithms have been used to predict the properties of materials, they have rarely been used to predict the properties of 2D materials. In this study, we apply four ML algorithms to predict the bandgaps of 2D materials based on the computational 2D materials database (C2DB). Gradient boosted decision trees and random forests are more effective in predicting bandgaps of 2D materials with an R2 >90% and root-mean-square error (RMSE) of ~0.24 eV and 0.27 eV, respectively. By contrast, support vector regression and multi-layer perceptron show that R2 is >70% with RMSE of ~0.41 eV and 0.43 eV, respectively. Finally, when the bandgap calculated without spin-orbit coupling (SOC) is used as a feature, the RMSEs of the four ML models decrease greatly to 0.09 eV, 0.10 eV, 0.17 eV, and 0.12 eV, respectively. The R2 of all the models is >94%. These results show that the properties of 2D materials can be rapidly obtained by ML prediction with high precision.

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  • Yu Zhang & Wenjing Xu & Guangjie Liu & Zhiyong Zhang & Jinlong Zhu & Meng Li, 2021. "Bandgap prediction of two-dimensional materials using machine learning," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 16(8), pages 1-12, August.
  • Handle: RePEc:plo:pone00:0255637
    DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0255637
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