A New Carbazole‐Constructed Hyperbranched Polymer: Convenient One‐Pot Synthesis, Hole‐Transporting Ability, and Field‐Effect Transistor Properties

Abstract A new hyperbranched polymer (HB‐car), constructed fully by carbazole moieties, is successfully synthesized through a one‐pot Suzuki coupling reaction. The resultant polymer is well‐characterized, and its hole‐transporting ability is studied carefully. The device, in which HB‐car is utilized as a hole‐transporting layer and tris‐(8‐hydroxyquinoline) aluminum as an electron‐emitting layer as well as electron‐transporting layer, gives a much higher efficiency (3.05 cd A^–1), than that of a poly(N‐vinylcarbazole) based device (2.19 cd A^–1) under similar experimental conditions. The remarkable performance is attributed to its low energy barrier and enhanced hole‐drifting ability in the HB‐car based device. In addition, for the first time, a field‐effect transistor (FET) based on the hyperbranched polymer is fabricated, and the organic FET device shows that HB‐car is a typical p‐type FET material with a saturation mobility of 1 × 10^–5 cm² V^–1 s^–1, a threshold voltage of –47.1 V, and an on‐to‐off current ratio of 10³.