The structural stability, thermodynamic and optical properties of delafossite CuAlO2 were investigated using the norm-conserving pseudopotential technique based on the fi rst-principle density-functional theory. The ground-state properties obtained by minimizing the total energy were in favorable agreement with previous works. By using the quasi-harmonic Debye model, the thermodynamic properties including the Debye temperature QD, heat capacity CV, thermal expansion coeffi cient a, and Grüneisen parameter g were successfully obtained in the temperature range from 0 to 1 000 K and pressure range from 0 to 80 GPa, respectively. The optical properties including dielectric function e（v）, absorption coeffi cient a（v）, refl ectivity coeffi cient R（v）, and refractive index n（v） were also calculated and analyzed.
