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 a first portion of the binder, a first 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 concentration of the first plurality of wavelength-conversion particles varies in a direction substantially perpendicular to the emission surface to result in a divergence of color temperature of the substantially white light emitted from the binder that 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,
• (iii) u′ and v′ are chromaticity coordinates on a chromaticity diagram, and
• (iv) a second portion of the binder is substantially free of wavelength-conversion particles.