Rahim Forouhi
Founder, President and CEO
n&k Technology, Inc.

Dr. Rahim Forouhi, President of n&k Technology, Inc., is responsible for overseeing n&k’s overall business direction as well as driving the technical expertise in broad-band spectrophotometry, semiconductor processing and optical instrumentation.
Dr. Forouhi holds a patent based on what is known in current scientific literature as the Forouhi-Bloomer optical dispersion equations. Together with n&k co-founder, Dr. Iris Bloomer, he developed the patented “n&k Method” a spectrophotometric method utilizing the Forouhi-Bloomer optical dispersion equations for simultaneously determining thickness, index of refraction, extinction coefficient and the energy band gap for a variety of thin films, Semiconductors, Optical Coatings and Flat Panel Displays. A pioneer in his field, Dr. Forouhi holds 27 patents for semiconductor processing, optical instrumentation and optical characterization of materials and has authored numerous technical publications.

Dr. Forouhi holds a Bachelor of Arts in Physics from the first graduating class of the Institute of Technology in Tehran, Iran, and a Masters in Physics from the University of Oslo. He received his PhD in Materials Science from the University of California, Berkeley.