Two new conjugated polyfluorene derivatives bearing triphenylamine moiety through a vinylene bridge,
PDPF and
PBPF, have been successfully synthesized according to the Suzuki coupling method. Thestructures and properties of the monomers and the resulting conjugated polymers were characterized byusing
1H NMR,
13C NMR, FT-IR, elemental analysis, GPC, TGA, DSC, UV-vis absorption spectroscopy,photoluminescence (PL) spectroscopy, and cyclic voltammetry (CV). The obtained polymers possessexcellent solubility in common organic solvents, good thermal stability with 5% weight loss temperatureof 415-448
C, and relatively high glass transition temperature (
Tg) at about 91-159
C. The weight-average molecular weight (
Mw) of
PDPF and
PBPF were 5.79 × 10
4 and 1.68 × 10
4 with thepolydispersity index (PDI) of 2.75 and 2.69, respectively. The two-dimensional conjugated system ofPFs can effectively suppress
-stacking/aggregation, improve hole injection, and facilitate intramolecularenergy transfer. Single-layer PLED devices using
PDPF and
PBPF with the configuration of ITO/PEDOT:PSS/polymer/Ca/Al were fabricated. The maximum electroluminescence (EL) efficiency of the single-layer PLEDs based on
PDPF and
PBPF was about 0.19 and 0.51 cd/A, respectively. Meanwhile, thePLEDs with the optimized configuration of ITO/PEDOT:PSS/polymer/Alq
3/Al showed greatly improvedperformance. The double-layer device based on
PDPF emitted very stable greenish blue light with a lowturn-on voltage of 3.6 V and showed the maximum luminance of about 2930 cd/m
2 at 21.0 V. Themaximum EL efficiency of the double-layer PLEDs based on
PDPF and
PBPF was both about 2.08cd/A.