journal article·2025-09Open access

AI‐Driven Robot Enables Synthesis‐Property Relation Prediction for Metal Halide Perovskites in Humid Atmosphere

Ansuman Halder, Maher B. Alghalayini, Shuan Cheng, Nikil Thalanki, Thong M. Nguyen, Abigail R. Hering, Do‐Kyoung Lee, Simon Arnold, Marina S. Leite, Edward Barnard, Aleksandr Razumtcev, Morgan Wall, Arian Gashi, Yi‐Ru Liu, Marcus M. Noack, Shijing Sun, Carolin M. Sutter‐Fella

Advanced Energy Materials· Volume 15· Issue 34

Abstract

Abstract Materials Acceleration Platforms (MAPs) – also known as self‐driving laboratories– present a new paradigm for materials science and promise an order of magnitude accelerated materials discovery compared to the traditional trial‐and‐error approach. Metal halide perovskites (MHPs) are an emerging class of materials for optoelectronic applications but are plagued by irreproducible optoelectronic quality, particularly for films fabricated in a humid atmosphere. Here, a machine learning (ML)‐guided closed‐loop platform is developed with a multimodal data fusion approach to predict synthesis–property relations for the optical quality of MHP thin films in relative humidities (RHs) ranging from 5–55%. The efficiency of this approach is confirmed by the fast‐dropping learning rate to 2% after experimentally sampling less than 1% of the possible 5,000+ combinations. The prediction of synthesis–property relations is done by optical and imaging characterizations. In situ photoluminescence characterization revealed the origin of thin film quality variation at different RH. These insights provide an avenue for controlling the MHP crystallization by fine‐tuning the synthesis parameters and RH for a given chemistry, thus lifting the need for stringent atmosphere control. The MAP enables an accelerated screening and understanding of the synthesis design space, facilitating rational synthesis recipe choice for a wide range of materials.
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OpenAlex topics: Perovskite Materials and Applications · Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques · Machine Learning and ELM

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Affiliations

Molecular Foundry Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Berkeley CA 94720 USA

Energy Storage and Distributed Resources Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Berkeley CA 94720 USA

Applied Mathematics and Computational Research Division Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Berkeley CA 94720 USA

Department of Mechanical Engineering University of Washington Seattle WA 98195 USA

Department of Materials Science and Engineering University of California Berkeley CA 94720 USA

Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering University of Washington Seattle WA 98195 USA

Department of Materials Science and Engineering University of California 1 Shields Ave Davis CA 95616 USA

Nevada Extreme Conditions Laboratory University of Nevada Las Vegas NV 89154 USA

Institute of Materials for Electronics and Energy Technology (i‐MEET) Department of Materials Science and Engineering Friedrich‐Alexander‐Universität Erlangen‐Nürnberg 91058 Erlangen Germany

Funding

University of Washington · Bayerisch-Kalifornischen Hochschulzentrum · National Science Foundation · Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education · Basic Energy Sciences · United States - India Educational Foundation

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