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Rapid design and development of the emergent ultrawide-bandgap semiconductors Ga2O3 and Al2O3 require a compact model of their electronic structures, accurate over the broad energy range accessed in future high-field, high-frequency, and high-temperature electronics and visible and ultraviolet photonics. A minimal tight-binding model is developed to reproduce the first-principles electronic structures of the β- and α-phases of Ga2O3 and Al2O3 throughout their reciprocal spaces. Application of this model to α-Ga2O3=α-Al2O3 superlattices reveals that intersubband transitions can be engineered to the 1:55 μm telecommunications wavelength, opening new directions in oxide photonics. Furthermore, by accurately reproducing the bandgap, orbital character, effective mass, and high-energy features of the conduction band, this compact model will assist in the investigation and design of the electrical and optical properties of bulk materials, devices, and quantum confined heterostructures. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]