Engineered-phosphor led packages and related methods

A light-emitting device comprising:

• a bare light-emitting die having an emission surface;
• a binder disposed over at least a portion of the emission surface;
• and
• disposed within the binder, a plurality of wavelength-conversion particles for absorbing at least a portion of light emitted from the light-emitting die and emitting converted light having a different wavelength, wherein (i) converted light and unconverted light emitted by the light-emitting die combine to form substantially white light, (ii) a divergence of color temperature of the substantially white light emitted from the light-emitting device varies, over an angular range of 0° to 70°, no more than 0.01 in terms of a Δu′v′ deviation from a spatially weighted averaged chromaticity, and (iii) u′ and v′ are chromaticity coordinates on a chromaticity diagram,
• wherein a concentration of the wavelength-conversion particles varies in a direction substantially perpendicular to the emission surface.