Perovskite materials have become ubiquitous in many technologically relevant applications, ranging from catalysts in solid oxide fuel cells to light absorbing layers in solar photovoltaics. The thermodynamic phase stability is a key parameter that broadly governs whether the material is expected to be synthesizable, and whether it may degrade under certain operating conditions. Phase stability can be calculated using Density Functional Theory (DFT), but the significant computational cost makes such calculation potentially prohibitive when screening large numbers of possible compounds. In this work, we developed machine learning models to predict the thermodynamic phase stability of perovskite oxides using a dataset of more than 1900 DFTcalculated perovskite oxide energies. The phase stability was determined using convex hull analysis, with the energy above the convex hull (Ehull) providing a direct measure of the stability.We generated a set of 791 features based on elemental property data to correlate with the Ehull value of each perovskite compound, and found through feature selection that the top 70 features were sufficient to produce the most accurate models without significant overfitting. For classification, the extra trees algorithm achieved the best prediction accuracy of 0.93 (+/-0.02), with an F1 score of 0.88 (+/-0.03). For regression, leave-out 20% cross-validation tests with kernel ridge regression achieved the minimal root mean square error (RMSE) of 28.5 (+/-7.5) meV/atom between cross-validation predicted Ehull values and DFT calculations, with the mean absolute error (MAE) in cross-validation energies of 16.7 (+/-2.3) meV/atom. This error is within the range of errors in DFT formation energies relative to elemental reference states when compared to experiments and therefore may be considered sufficiently accurate to use in place of full DFT calculations. We further validated our model by predicting the stability of compounds not present in the training set and demonstrated our machine learning models are a fast and effective means of Highlights • Performed machine-learning based studies on a dataset of DFT-calculated stability data of over 1900 perovskite oxides.• Demonstrated a complete workflow from feature generation and selection to model validation and testing.• Showed that a machine learning approach is capable of accurately and efficiently obtaining stability information for a wide composition range of perovskite oxides.• Showed that a machine learning prediction of perovskite oxide stability can supplement DFT calculations for faster screening of novel materials. Main 1 IntroductionThe discovery of novel functional materials is central to the continuing development of materials technologies. Recently, high-throughput DFT methods have been used to guide the discovery of new compounds for numerous applications, including: perovskite oxides for solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) cathodes[1, 2], thermochemical water splitting,[3] half-heusler and sintered compounds for thermoelectrics,[4, 5] oxides...

Electron microscopy and defect analysis are a cornerstone of materials science, as they offer detailed insights on the microstructure and performance of a wide range of materials and material systems. Building a robust and flexible platform for automated defect recognition and classification in electron microscopy will result in the completion of analysis orders of magnitude faster after images are recorded, or even online during image acquisition. Automated analysis has the potential to be significantly more efficient, accurate, and repeatable than human analysis, and it can scale with the increasingly important methods of automated data generation. Herein, an automated recognition tool is developed based on a computer vison-based approach; it sequentially applies a cascade object detector, convolutional neural network, and local image analysis methods. We demonstrate that the automated tool performs as well as or better than manual human detection in terms of recall and precision and achieves quantitative image/defect analysis metrics close to the human average. The proposed approach works for images of varying contrast, brightness, and magnification. These promising results suggest that this and similar approaches are worth exploring for detecting multiple defect types and have the potential to locate, classify, and measure quantitative features for a range of defect types, materials, and electron microscopic techniques.