Abstract:Binding energies of Wannier excitons in ternary mixed crystals(TMGs) of polar crystals were variationally calculated by taking the interaction between the exciton and two branches of optical phonon modes into account in the modified random-element-isodisplacement(MREI) model.The numerical results of the excitonic binding energies as functions of the composition x were given for several TMCs.The contributions of the two branches of phonons to the excitonic binding energies were discussed.It is shown that the electron-phonon(e-p) coupling plays an important role for the binding energies of the excitons with larger electron-hole mass differences.A non-linear dependence of the phonon contributions to the binding energies on the composition x is found.The validity of the effective phonon mode approximation(EPMA) to formulate the exciton-phonon interaction was discussed.