# Superscattering pattern shaping for radially anisotropic nanowires

## TL;DR

This paper demonstrates how radially anisotropic nanowires can be engineered to produce tailored superscattering patterns through resonant multipolar interference, with practical realization via isotropic multilayered nanowires.

## Contribution

It introduces a method to shape superscattering patterns using radial anisotropy and shows how to realize this with multilayered isotropic nanowires.

## Key findings

- Radial anisotropy enables resonant overlap of electric and magnetic multipoles.
- Engineered superscattering patterns with specific angular distributions are achieved.
- Isotropic multilayered nanowires can realize the required anisotropic scattering properties.

## Abstract

We achieve efficient shaping of superscattering by radially anisotropic nanowires relying on resonant multipolar interferences. It is shown that the radial anisotropy of refractive index can be employed to resonantly overlap electric and magnetic multipoles of various orders, and as a result effective superscattering with different engineered angular patterns can be obtained. We further demonstrate that such superscattering shaping relying on unusual radial anisotropy parameters can be directly realised with isotropic multi-layered nanowires, which may shed new light to many fundamental researches and various applications related to scattering particles.