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Hindawi Publishing Corporation Research Letters in Optics Volume 2009, Article ID 475941, 5 pages doi:10.1155/2009/475941 Research Letter Surface Plasmons and Surface Enhanced Raman Spectra of Aggregated and Alloyed Gold-Silver Nanoparticles Y. Fleger1, 2 and M. Rosenbluh1, 2 1 Department of Physics, The Jack and Pearl Resnick Institute for Advanced Technology, Bar-Ilan University, 52900 Ramat-Gan, Israel 2 Institute of Nanotechnology and Advanced Materials, Bar-Ilan University, 52900 Ramat-Gan, Israel Correspondence should be addressed to Y. Fleger, gutmany@mail.biu.ac.il Received 17 February 2009; Accepted 10 May 2009 Recommended by Roberto Morandotti Effects of size, morphology, and composition of gold and silver nanoparticles on surface plasmon resonance (SPR) and surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) are studied with the purpose of optimizing SERS substrates. Various gold and silver films made by evaporation and subsequent annealing give different morphologies and compositions of nanoparticles and thus different position of the SPR peak. SERS measurements of 4-mercaptobenzoic acid obtained from these films reveal that the proximity of the SPR peak to the exciting laser wavelength is not the only factor leading to the highest Raman enhancement. Silver nanoparticles evaporated on top of larger gold nanoparticles show higher SERS than gold-silver alloyed nanoparticles, in spite of the fact that the SPR peak of alloyed nanoparticles is narrower and closer to the excitation wavelength. The highest Raman enhancement was obtained for substrates with a two-peak particle size distribution for excitation wavelengths close to the SPR. Copyright © 2009 Y. Fleger and M. Rosenbluh. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which pe