SERS has been actively researched due to its powerful label-free sensing mechanism. However, SERS sensors, although sensitive and powerful, are still not reproducible and not uniform for practical adoption. Our unique approach to SERS sensors satisfies all the sought-after characteristics: a SERS substrate that is uniform, reproducible, sensitive, large, and cost-effective. Specifically, we achieve a sensing uniformity of 4.2% averaged over 4 points and 2.3% over 16 points throughout the entire 6” substrate, and a SERS enhancement of 4.6 x 10^8. SERS spectra from four DNA bases are measured and their corresponding peaks are well defined down to 10 pM concentration.
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