Materials Project Materials Absorption API

openapi: 3.1.0
info:
  title: Materials Project Defect Tasks Materials Absorption API
  description: "\nThe Materials Project API allows anyone to have direct access to current, up-to-date information from the Materials Project database in a structured way.\n\nThis allows for analysis, development of automated tools, machine learning, downloading personal copies of the Materials Project database and more on a large scale.\n\nThe API is offered with the hopes of making Materials Project data more useful to you. We want you to use our data! As such, the API is offered free-of-charge and we support several tools to help you get started.\n\n## API Key\nTo make any request to the Materials Project API, you must use an API key. Your API key is generated for you automatically upon registering with the Materials Project website and is synced with the email you used to register.\n\nRemember to keep your API key safe and to not share it with anyone you do not trust.\n\nIf you are logged in, you can always access your API key from this page or from your [dashboard](https://next-gen.materialsproject.org/dashboard).\n\nIf you intend heavy API usage, you can give us a heads up by sending a message to <heavy.api.use@materialsproject.org>. With the exception of retrieving charge densities, this is not required, but may help us if we see unusual load on our servers.\n\n## Accessing Data\nTo use the API, you have three options:\n\n1. You can use our first-party supported Python client. This is the recommend route. The `mp-api` package containing the client is pip installable.\n\n    ```\n    pip install mp-api\n    ```\n\n    The `MPRester` client can be accessed by importing from it. This will ultimately replace the legacy `MPRester` available in pymatgen.\n\n    For more details on how to use this, including code examples, please see <https://next-gen.materialsproject.org/api>.\n\n2. You can demo the API interactively on this documentation page. Click the \"Authorize\" button, paste in your API key, and then click the appropriate section to try out a query.\n\n3. Since this is a REST API, and offers a fully-compliant OpenAPI specification, it's possible to use the API with many libraries in many languages and environments, including JavaScript, MATLAB, Mathematica, etc. However, we do not offer first-party support for explaining how to do this, and you will have to follow the specification yourself.\n\n"
  version: 0.86.4rc5.dev1+g77c2c1315
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security:
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tags:
- name: Materials Absorption
paths:
  /materials/absorption/:
    get:
      tags:
      - Materials Absorption
      summary: Get AbsorptionDoc documents
      operationId: search_materials_absorption__get
      parameters:
      - name: material_ids
        in: query
        required: false
        schema:
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          - type: 'null'
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          title: Nsites Max
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      - name: nsites_min
        in: query
        required: false
        schema:
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          description: Query for minimum value of nsites
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      - name: nsites
        in: query
        required: false
        schema:
          anyOf:
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          - type: 'null'
          description: Query for nsites being equal to an exact value
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        required: false
        schema:
          anyOf:
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          title: Nsites Not Eq
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        required: false
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      - name: nsites_neq_any
        in: query
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          anyOf:
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        in: query
        required: false
        schema:
          type: string
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          title: Nelements Eq Any
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        in: query
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          title: Nelements Neq Any
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        required: false
        schema:
          anyOf:
          - type: number
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          description: Query for minimum value of volume
          title: Volume Min
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      - name: density_max
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        required: false
        schema:
          anyOf:
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          - type: 'null'
          description: Query for maximum value of density
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        description: Query for maximum value of density
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        in: query
        required: false
        schema:
          anyOf:
          - type: number
          - type: 'null'
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          title: Density Min
        description: Query for minimum value of density
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        in: query
        required: false
        schema:
          anyOf:
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          title: Density Atomic Max
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        in: query
        required: false
        schema:
          anyOf:
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          - type: 'null'
          description: Query for minimum value of density_atomic
          title: Density Atomic Min
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        in: query
        required: false
        schema:
          anyOf:
          - type: number
          - type: 'null'
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          title: Bandgap Max
        description: Query for maximum value of bandgap
      - name: bandgap_min
        in: query
        required: false
        schema:
          anyOf:
          - type: number
          - type: 'null'
          description: Query for minimum value of bandgap
          title: Bandgap Min
        description: Query for minimum value of bandgap
      - name: _page
        in: query
        required: false
        schema:
          type: integer
          description: Page number to request (takes precedent over _limit and _skip).
          title: ' Page'
        description: Page number to request (takes precedent over _limit and _skip).
      - name: _per_page
        in: query
        required: false
        schema:
          type: integer
          description: Number of entries to show per page (takes precedent over _limit and _skip). Limited to 1000.
          default: 100
          title: ' Per Page'
        description: Number of entries to show per page (takes precedent over _limit and _skip). Limited to 1000.
      - name: _skip
        in: query
        required: false
        schema:
          type: integer
          description: Number of entries to skip in the search.
          default: 0
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      - name: _limit
        in: query
        required: false
        schema:
          type: integer
          description: Max number of entries to return in a single query. Limited to 1000.
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          title: ' Limit'
        description: Max number of entries to return in a single query. Limited to 1000.
      - name: _fields
        in: query
        required: false
        schema:
          type: string
          description: 'Fields to project from AbsorptionDoc as a list of comma separated strings.                    Fields include: `builder_meta` `nsites` `elements` `nelements` `composition` `composition_reduced` `formula_pretty` `formula_anonymous` `chemsys` `volume` `density` `density_atomic` `symmetry` `material_id` `deprecated` `deprecation_reasons` `last_updated` `origins` `warnings` `structure` `property_name` `task_id` `energies` `energy_max` `absorption_coefficient` `average_imaginary_dielectric` `average_real_dielectric` `bandgap` `nkpoints`'
          title: ' Fields'
        description: 'Fields to project from AbsorptionDoc as a list of comma separated strings.                    Fields include: `builder_meta` `nsites` `elements` `nelements` `composition` `composition_reduced` `formula_pretty` `formula_anonymous` `chemsys` `volume` `density` `density_atomic` `symmetry` `material_id` `deprecated` `deprecation_reasons` `last_updated` `origins` `warnings` `structure` `property_name` `task_id` `energies` `energy_max` `absorption_coefficient` `average_imaginary_dielectric` `average_real_dielectric` `bandgap` `nkpoints`'
      - name: _all_fields
        in: query
        required: false
        schema:
          type: boolean
          description: Include all fields.
          default: false
          title: ' All Fields'
        description: Include all fields.
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Search for a AbsorptionDoc
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/Response_AbsorptionDoc_'
        '422':
          description: Validation Error
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/HTTPValidationError'
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          title: Run Id
          description: The run id associated with this data build.
        batch_id:
          anyOf:
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          - type: 'null'
          title: Batch Id
          description: Identifier corresponding to the origin of this document's blessed task.
        database_version:
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          - type: 'null'
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        formula_anonymous:
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          description: Anonymized representation of the formula.
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        volume:
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          - type: 'null'
          title: Volume
          description: Total volume for this structure in ų.
        density:
          anyOf:
          - type: number
          - type: 'null'
          title: Density
          description: Density in g/cm³.
        density_atomic:
          anyOf:
          - type: number
          - type: 'null'
          title: Packing Density
          description: The atomic packing density in ų/atom.
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            - '3453'
            - mp-834-Ag
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            examples:
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            - task:pqrs
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          type: array
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          default: []
        property_name:
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          title: Property Name
          default: Optical absorption spectrum
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          title: Task Id
          description: Calculation id
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          type: array
          title: Energies
          description: Absorption energy in eV starting from 0
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          title: Energy Max
          description: Maximum energy
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            type: number
          type: array
          title: Absorption Coefficient
          description: Absorption coefficient in cm^-1
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          description: Imaginary part of the dielectric function corresponding to the energies
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          title: Average Real Dielectric
          description: Real part of the dielectric function corresponding to the energies
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          - type: 'null'
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          - type: number
          - type: 'null'
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      - energy_max
      - absorption_coefficient
      - average_imaginary_dielectric
      - average_real_dielectric
      title: AbsorptionDoc
      description: Absorption spectrum based on frequency dependent dielectric function calculations.
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          description: The calculation ID this property comes from.
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          format: date-time
          title: Last Updated
          description: The timestamp when this calculation was last updated
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      required:
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      description: Provenance document for the origin of properties in a material document
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