Scanning-tunneling-microscopy measurements of submonolayer growth of Si on Si(001) show anisotropic island shapes. From coarsening experiments it is determined that these shapes are a consequence of the growth kinetics. They can be explained by a lateral accommodation coefficient for atoms arriving at the edge of islands that differs by an order of magnitude at the ends and at the sides of dimer rows.
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