Machine learning gives ultrafast atomic measurements of perovskite solar cell
The researchers developed a technique for making ultrafast measurements using atomic force microscopy, which previously could only investigate slow or static material structures and functions. In AFM, a rastering probe maps a material’s surface and captures physical and chemical properties but the probe is slow to respond to what it detects. Instead, the ORNL fast free force recovery technique uses advanced machine learning algorithms to analyse instantaneous tip motion to produce high-resolution images 3,500 times faster than standard AFM detection methods.
“This new approach can probe fast processes, such as charge screening, ionic transport and electrochemical phenomena, which were previously inaccessible with traditional AFM,” said Liam Collins at ORNL. The technique has been used to map the surface voltage dynamics from ion migration induced by an electric field in a perovskite solar cell (shown above).
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