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| author | Ma, Haoran Zheng, Yuchen Zhang, Leining Chen, Xiaofei Wang, Dan |
| author_facet | Ma, Haoran Zheng, Yuchen Zhang, Leining Chen, Xiaofei Wang, Dan |
| contents | Strain engineering provides a powerful route for tuning the electronic properties of two-dimensional (2D) materials, but exploring the full multidimensional strain space with density functional theory (DFT) is computationally prohibitive due to the nonlinear coupling between normal and shear components. In this work, we introduce a Transformer-based, multi-target surrogate model framework that achieves DFT-level bandgap prediction accuracy, reaching a mean absolute error of 0.0103 eV while retaining full interpretability through attention-weight analysis. The learned self-attention map consistently identifies shear strain as the interaction center that influences both bandgap and phonon stability, an insight not readily captured by classical feature-importance metrics. This work establishes attention-based architectures as physically interpretable surrogate models for multi-property prediction, offering a generalizable strategy for accelerating deep elastic strain engineering in materials informatics. |
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| publishDate | 2026 |
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| spellingShingle | Transformer-based prediction of two-dimensional material electronic properties under elastic strain engineering Ma, Haoran Zheng, Yuchen Zhang, Leining Chen, Xiaofei Wang, Dan Materials Science Strain engineering provides a powerful route for tuning the electronic properties of two-dimensional (2D) materials, but exploring the full multidimensional strain space with density functional theory (DFT) is computationally prohibitive due to the nonlinear coupling between normal and shear components. In this work, we introduce a Transformer-based, multi-target surrogate model framework that achieves DFT-level bandgap prediction accuracy, reaching a mean absolute error of 0.0103 eV while retaining full interpretability through attention-weight analysis. The learned self-attention map consistently identifies shear strain as the interaction center that influences both bandgap and phonon stability, an insight not readily captured by classical feature-importance metrics. This work establishes attention-based architectures as physically interpretable surrogate models for multi-property prediction, offering a generalizable strategy for accelerating deep elastic strain engineering in materials informatics. |
| title | Transformer-based prediction of two-dimensional material electronic properties under elastic strain engineering |
| topic | Materials Science |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.20141 |