Recently,
low-dimensional hybrid antimony halides have been demonstrated
with high performance broadband light emitting behaviors. However,
the exploration of nonlinear optical (NLO) properties of these hybrid
antimony halides is in its infancy. In particular, the second harmonic
generation (SHG) requires a structural noncentrosymmetry, which is
challenging but highly desirable for NLO photonic applications. In
this work, two pairs of new chiral hybrid antimony halides have been
synthesized by combining the organic chiral amine (R/S)-3-aminopiperidine (R/S-3-APD) and the second-order Jahn–Teller cation
Sb3+, which crystallize in the noncentrosymmetric P212121 space group in
centimeter sizes. NLO characterizations reveal that these hybrid antimony
halides exhibit high-efficiency SHG responses with a large laser damage
threshold and high birefringence, which provides a guideline for future
exploration of new metal halide materials for nonlinear photonic applications.