Fabrication of silver nanostructures in the form of particles, dendrites and flowers on silicon for use in sers substrates

Surface Enhanced Raman Scattering (SERS) is a technique that is increasingly being used to detect trace amounts of various types of molecules, especially organic and biological molecules. The SERS effect is available mainly due to the SERS substrate - a noble metal surface that is rough at the nano level or a set of noble metal nanoparticles in a certain arrangement.