Table 1: Material parameters used in the calculations at 300 K. They are taken from References [24,25].

Parameters (T = 300 k)

Symbols

GaAs

GaP

AlAs

AlP

GaBi

Lattice constant

α(Å)

5.653

5.4505

5.6622

5.4672

96.324

Band Gap

Eg(eV)

1.42

2.994

3.099

3.63

-1.45

Electron mass

m*e/m0

0.0665

0.13

0.15

0.22

0.039

Luttinger parameters

γ1

6.85

4.05

3.4

3.35

13.4

 

γ2

2.1

0.49

0.82

0.71

4.7

Deformation potentials

av(eV)

1.16

-8.2

2.47

25.7

-6.85

 

ac(eV)

-7.17

-1.7

-5.64

23.0

0.79

Elastic constant

C11(GPa)

1221

1405

1250

1330

119.2

 

C12(GPa)

566

620.3

534

630

59.9

Spin-orbit energy

Δ0(eV)

0.341

0.08

0.28

0.07

2.15

Refractive indices

nop

3.3

3.363

3.677

2.348

4.532