Campus Units
Mechanical Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Plant Sciences Institute
Document Type
Article
Publication Version
Submitted Manuscript
Publication Date
11-9-2020
Journal or Book Title
In Review
DOI
10.21203/rs.3.rs-88996/v1
Abstract
The problem of efficient design of material microstructures exhibiting desired properties spans a variety of engineering and science applications. An ability to rapidly generate microstructures that exhibit user-specified property distributions transforms the iterative process of traditional microstructure-sensitive design. We reformulate the microstructure design process as a constrained Generative Adversarial Network (GAN). This approach explicitly encodes invariance constraints within a GAN to generate two-phase morphologies for photovoltaic applications obeying design specifications: specifically, various short circuit current density and fill-factor combinations. Such invariance constraints can be represented by deep learning-based surrogates of full physics models mapping microstructure to photovoltaic properties. To circumvent data generation bottlenecks, we utilize a multi-fidelity surrogate that reduces the requirements of expensive labels by 5X. Our approach enables fast generation of microstructures (in~190ms) with user-defined properties. Such physics-aware data-driven methods for inverse design problems are expected to democratize and accelerate the field of microstructure-sensitive design.
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The Author(s)
Copyright Date
2020
Language
en
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application/pdf
Recommended Citation
Lee, Xian Yeow; Waite, Joshua R.; Yang, Chih-Hsuan; Pokuri, Balaji Sesha Sarath; Joshi, Ameya; Balu, Aditya; Hegde, Chinmay; Ganapathysubramanian, Baskar; and Sarkar, Soumik, "Fast Inverse Design of Microstructures via Generative Invariance Networks" (2020). Mechanical Engineering Publications. 449.
https://lib.dr.iastate.edu/me_pubs/449
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Comments
This is a pre-print of the article Lee, Xian Yeow, Joshua Waite, Chih-Hsuan Yang, Balaji Pokuri, Ameya Joshi, Aditya Balu, Chinmay Hegde, Baskar Ganapathysubramanian, and Soumik Sarkar. "Fast Inverse Design of Microstructures via Generative Invariance Networks." In Review (2020). DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-88996/v1. Posted with permission.