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Quantifying the CVD-grown two-dimensional materials via image clustering.

Zebin Li¹, Jihea Lee², Fei Yao²

¹Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, Buffalo, NY, USA. hongyues@buffalo.edu.

|September 8, 2021

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Machine learning (ML) automates quality control for novel two-dimensional (2D) materials synthesized via chemical vapor deposition (CVD). This unsupervised image clustering method efficiently assesses material quality, saving time and resources for scientists.

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Area of Science:

Materials Science
Nanotechnology
Artificial Intelligence

Background:

Chemical vapor deposition (CVD) is a key method for synthesizing high-quality two-dimensional (2D) materials.
Manual quality assessment of CVD-grown 2D materials from optical images is labor-intensive and time-consuming.
Machine learning (ML) offers potential for automating material quality evaluation.

Purpose of the Study:

To develop an unsupervised ML strategy for automated quality assessment of CVD-grown 2D materials using optical images.
To integrate Self-Organizing Map (SOM) and k-means clustering for image analysis.
To provide an efficient tool for materials scientists to evaluate material quality.

Main Methods:

Utilized an unsupervised machine learning approach for image clustering.
Integrated Self-Organizing Map (SOM) and k-means algorithms for optical image analysis.
Applied the methodology to optical images of CVD-grown 2D materials.

Main Results:

The proposed unsupervised clustering algorithm demonstrated high accuracy, with results closely matching expert labels.
The data-driven strategy effectively categorized the quality of CVD-grown 2D materials.
The method proved to be an efficient tool for quality assessment.

Conclusions:

The developed unsupervised ML methodology offers an effective toolkit for evaluating CVD-grown 2D materials.
This approach significantly reduces the time and labor associated with manual quality assessment.
The methodology has broad applicability across various material systems and synthesis techniques.