Mirzaei, AliShadrivov, Ilya V.Miroshnichenko, AndreyKivshar, Yuri2015-10-272015-10-270003-6951http://hdl.handle.net/1885/16123We analyse scattering of light from multi-layer plasmonic nanowires and employ a genetic algorithm for optimizing the scattering cross section. We apply the mode-expansion method using experimental data for material parameters to demonstrate that our genetic algorithm allows designing realistic core-shell nanostructures with the superscattering effect achieved at any desired wavelength. This approach can be employed for optimizing both superscattering and cloaking at different wavelengths in the visible spectral range.The authors acknowledge a support from the Australian Research Council through the Future Fellowship (FT110100037) and the Discovery Project programs.http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/issn/0003-6951..."Publishers version/PDF may be used on author's personal website, institutional website or institutional repository" from SHERPA/RoMEO site (as at 26/10/15). Copyright 2014 American Institute of Physics. This article may be downloaded for personal use only. Any other use requires prior permission of the author and the American Institute of Physics. The following article appeared in Applied Physics Letters and may be found at https://doi.org/10.1063/1.48874752014-07-0810.1063/1.48874752015-12-11