PINN Predicts Vibrational Stability of Semiconductors

Published:Dec 26, 2025 02:18
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ArXiv

Analysis

This paper introduces a Physics-informed Neural Network (PINN) to predict the vibrational stability of inorganic semiconductors, a crucial property for high-throughput materials screening. The key innovation is incorporating the Born stability criteria directly into the loss function, ensuring the model adheres to fundamental physics. This approach leads to improved performance, particularly in identifying unstable materials, which is vital for filtering. The work contributes a valuable screening tool and a methodology for integrating domain knowledge to enhance predictive accuracy in materials informatics.

Reference

The model shows consistent and improved performance, having been trained on a dataset of 2112 inorganic materials with validated phonon spectra, and getting an F1-score of 0.83 for both stable and unstable classes.