Sample Set A Description: Variation in epilayer growth temperature AFM data: RMS roughness (Figure 3 (a)) Temperature RMS roughness ERROR °C nm nm 830 12.15 0.4 845 10.52 0.11 860 8.01 0.39 880 8.37 0.37 895 22.19 0.64 910 75.33 8.71 AFM data: Feature size extracted from AFM measurements (Figure 3 (b)) Temperature Feature size (para) ERROR Feature size (perp) ERROR °C µm µm µm µm 830 0.46723 0.0532 2.56505 0.09535 845 0.45305 0.01656 2.43231 0.0936 860 0.4979 0.02512 1.99088 0.12448 880 0.79127 0.06375 1.60183 0.08156 895 1.27829 0.11843 1.69933 0.13847 910 1.40441 0.21112 1.70227 0.16078 XRD phase analysis: (Figure 5 (a)) The relative portion of the zincblende GaN phase, wurtzite GaN phase and highly defective material have been extracted from XRD intensity profiles of the 113 and 1-103 reflections. These profiles have been fitted by three Pseudo-Voigt functions. Temperature zincblende wurtzite mixed mixed & wurtzite °C I(1-13) I(1-103) I(mix) I(1-103) + I(mix) 830 99.81 0.14 0.05 0.19 845 98.44 0.79 0.77 1.56 860 99.04 0.44 0.52 0.96 880 97.68 1.19 1.13 2.32 895 95.38 2.15 2.46 4.61 910 91.79 4.9 3.31 8.21 XRD w-Rocking curves FWHM (Figure 5 (b)) Temperature FWHM (para) FWHM (perp) °C arcmin arcmin 830 74.07 52.34 845 77.45 62.03 860 61.58 48.89 880 47.53 37.73 895 43.878 37.24 910 37.64 32.31