Classification of Local Chemical Environments from X-ray Absorption Spectra using Supervised Machine Learning

Abstract

X-ray absorption spectroscopy is a premier element-specific technique for materials characterization. Specifically, the x-ray absorption near-edge structure (XANES) encodes important information about the local chemical environment of an absorbing atom, including coordination number, symmetry, and oxidation state. Interpreting XANES spectra is a key step towards understanding the structural and electronic properties of materials, and as such, extracting structural and electronic descriptors from XANES spectra is akin to solving a challenging inverse problem. Existing methods rely on empirical fingerprints, which are often qualitative or semiquantitative and not transferable. In this paper, we present a machine learning-based approach, which is capable of classifying the local coordination environments of the absorbing atom from simulated K-edge XANES spectra. The machine learning classifiers can learn important spectral features in a broad energy range without human bias and once trained, can make predictions on the fly. The robustness and fidelity of the machine learning method are demonstrated by an average 86% accuracy across the wide chemical space of oxides in eight 3d transition-metal families. We found that spectral features beyond the preedge region play an important role in the local structure classification problem especially for the late 3d transition-metal elements.

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