Revisiting semicontinuous silver films as surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy substrates

• Malwina Liszewska,
• Bogusław Budner,
• Małgorzata Norek,
• Bartłomiej J. Jankiewicz and
• Piotr Nyga

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2019, 10, 1048–1055, doi:10.3762/bjnano.10.105

• percolation threshold has the SERS signal about four times lower than the highest signal sample. Keywords: metal island film; plasmon resonance; semicontinuous silver film; SERS; surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy; Introduction Noble metal nanostructures exhibit exceptional optical properties. They can