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Islands and vacancy islands are produced on the Au(100) surface by deposition of submonolayer quantities of gold and by argon ion sputtering, respectively. As noted before, these islands have a rectangular shape with the long side oriented along the long base vector of the 5×n (n≈25) unit mesh of the reconstructed Au(100) surface. The initial (aspect) ratio of the long to the short side is about 10...