READ ME File For 'THz-TDS: extracting complex conductivity of two-dimensional materials via neural networks trained on synthetic and experimental data - Dataset' Dataset DOI: https://doi.org/10.5258/SOTON/D3433 ReadMe Author: Ben Beddoes, University of Southampton This dataset supports the publication: Ben Beddoes, Nick Klokkou, Jon Gorecki, Patrick Whelan, Peter Boggild, Peter Jepsen and Vasilis Apostolopoulos THz-TDS: extracting complex conductivity of two-dimensional materials via neural networks trained on synthetic and experimental data Optics Express DOI: https://doi.org/10.1364/OE.557580 This dataset contains: Training and validation data used for 4 networks: - Large synthetically trained network using 2e5 training sets Comparison networks for different training sets - Small synthetic network 1600 data sets - Experimental network 800 data sets - Hybrid trained network with 1600 datasets (800 experimental sets, 800 synthetic sets) The files (contained in ZIP folder) are as follows: **LargeSynthetic_TrainingData** Training data for network used in figure 3 **ReducedSynthetic_TrainingData** Training data for network trained using purely synthetic data figure 4a **Exp_TrainingData** Training data for network trained using purely experimental data, figure 4b **Hybrid_TrainingData** Training data for hybrid trained network, figure 4c **Synthetic_ValidationData** Synthetic validation data, figure 4 **ExpOOD_ValidationData** Out-of-distribution experimental validation data, figure 4 Dates of data collection: Oct-Dec 2024 Information about geographic location of data collection: University of Southampton, U.K. Licence - CC-BY Date that the file was created: 20/03/2025