Surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) sensors, although label-free and extremely sensitive, are still not reproducible and not uniform enough for practical adoption. We propose an unique approach to quantitative 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 4.6x108. SERS spectra from four DNA bases are measured and their corresponding peaks are well defined down to 10 pM concentration.
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