Table 2 Comparison to experimental data.

From: Computational screening of materials with extreme gap deformation potentials

Material

ID

\({\widetilde{\Xi }}_{{{{\rm{gap}}}}}\) (eV)

Exp. (eV)

GaP

mp-2490

−0.72 (−8.18)

– (−9.9)

GaAs

mp-2534

−7.30

−8.5

InP

mp-20351

−5.42

−6.4

ZnS

mp-10695

−4.37

−4.0

ZnSe

mp-1190

−3.98

−5.4

CdTe

mp-406

−2.97

−3.4

CdS

mp-2469

−2.23

−3.1

CdSe

mp-2691

−2.08

−3.0

AlN

mp-661

−8.98

−7.1/−9.5

  1. Comparison between experimental values and estimated deformation potentials. All experimental values were obtained from refs. 5,6,75 and references therein. For GaP we show the deformation potential for the direct gap in parenthesis.