Abstract: | Ab initio calculations of optical-phonon deformation potentials (ODP's), i.e., d0, d30, d10 (val) and d10 (con) for sixteen semiconductors were carried out systematically. The calculations are based on the LMTO-ASA band-structure method within the framework of the frozen-phonon approximation model, in which the displacement of empty sphere is considered to match its atomic sphere partners, We have compared the d0 values obtained by several different theoretical calculation methods and studied the main factors affecting them. It is pointed out that the two different models (rhombohedral strain model and frozen-phonon model) for calculations will lead to different results of d0. |