Zhiqing Xu | Searcharxiv

arXiv2026

Scalable High-Precision Microfabrication on Various Lithography-Incompatible Substrates and Materials Enabled by Wafer-Scale Transfer Lithography of Commercial Photoresists

Photolithography conventionally requires flat, rigid and stable substrates, limiting its applications in flexible, curved, and transient electronics. In this study, a breakthrough approach is reported that employs a reversibly adhesion-switchable phase-changing polymer to universally transfer commercial photoresists onto previously inaccessible substrates, overcoming fundamental limitations of conventional photolithography.

physics.app-ph↗

arXiv2019

Bayesian Inference of a Finite Population Mean Under Length-Biased Sampling

We present a robust Bayesian method to analyze forestry data when samples are selected with probability proportional to length from a finite population of unknown size. Specifically, we use Bayesian predictive inference to estimate the finite population mean of shrub widths in a limestone quarry dominated by re-growth of mountain mahogany. The data on shrub widths are collected using transect sampling and it is assumed that the probability that a shrub is selected is proportional to its width; this is length-biased sampling. In this type of sampling, the population size is also unknown and this creates an additional challenge. The quantity of interest is average finite population shrub width and the total shrub area of the quarry can be estimated. Our method is assisted by using the three-parameter generalized gamma distribution, thereby robustifying our procedure against a possible model failure. Using conditional predictive ordinates, we show that the model, which accommodates length bias, performs better than the model that does not. In the Bayesian computation, we overcome a technical problem associated with Gibbs sampling by using a random sampler.

stat.AP↗