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Hindawi Publishing Corporation Journal of Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics Volume 2012, Article ID 683830, 6 pages doi:10.1155/2012/683830 Research Article Uniformly Immobilizing Gold Nanorods on a Glass Substrate Hadas Weinrib, Amihai Meiri, Hamootal Duadi, and Dror Fixler Faculty of Engineering and The Institute of Nanotechnology and Advanced Materials, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan 52900, Israel Correspondence should be addressed to Dror Fixler, dror.fixler@biu.ac.il Received 10 February 2012; Revised 5 April 2012; Accepted 5 April 2012 Academic Editor: Rachela Popovtzer Copyright © 2012 Hadas Weinrib et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. The goal of this paper is to immobilize gold nanoparticles uniformly on a glass substrate. In order to attach gold-nanorods (GNRs) to an area of a few squared microns surface of glass substrate without preliminary coating of the GNR, 3-(Mercaptopro- pyl)trimethoxysilane molecules were used as linker while using different methods. These methods included placing the glass slide and the GNR (1) inside a tube without any motion; (2) inside a shaker; (3) in a fan setup. The fan setup included a tube containing the GNR solution and the glass slide at a vertical position, when the fan blows above the tube, producing turbulations in the liquid. Each method was evaluated according to the density and the homogeneousness of the GNR monolayer on the surface. The uniformity of the monolayer was demonstrated using AFM images of different areas on the slides, and the effectiveness of the protocol was demonstrated by calculating the average density