Band gap

Band gap - energy range in a solid where no electron states can exist. Article “Band gap” in English Wikipedia has 60.2 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 50 references and 12 sections.

In this language version of Wikipedia the article has the best quality. Also, this article is the most popular in that (English) language version.

In June 2026 the article “Band gap” was edited by 1 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 1 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Band gap”, its content was written by 171 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 602 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 592 times in English Wikipedia and cited 2871 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #3551 in January 2003
• Global: #2532 in January 2004

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #25546 in April 2015
• Global: #26383 in October 2014

There are 29 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2026 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	English (en) Band gap		60.1704
2	Simple English (simple) Band gap		54.5264
3	Greek (el) Ενεργειακό χάσμα		54.0516
4	Hungarian (hu) Tiltott sáv		41.1816
5	German (de) Bandlücke		40.4111
6	French (fr) Bande interdite		39.5823
7	Catalan (ca) Banda prohibida		38.9498
8	Spanish (es) Banda prohibida		35.2375
9	Persian (fa) نوار ممنوعه		34.3763
10	Hindi (hi) बैण्ड अन्तराल		30.3585

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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

The most popular language versions of the article "Band gap" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Band gap		4 246 645
2	Japanese (ja) バンドギャップ		1 339 926
3	Russian (ru) Запрещённая зона		644 692
4	German (de) Bandlücke		630 893
5	Spanish (es) Banda prohibida		405 735
6	Chinese (zh) 能隙		332 967
7	Polish (pl) Przerwa energetyczna		222 164
8	Italian (it) Banda proibita		156 907
9	Korean (ko) 띠틈		137 162
10	Portuguese (pt) Banda proibida		122 894

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

The most popular language versions of the article "Band gap" in June 2026

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Band gap		4 837
2	Japanese (ja) バンドギャップ		1 387
3	German (de) Bandlücke		1 015
4	Russian (ru) Запрещённая зона		801
5	Chinese (zh) 能隙		430
6	French (fr) Bande interdite		386
7	Spanish (es) Banda prohibida		349
8	Polish (pl) Przerwa energetyczna		215
9	Italian (it) Banda proibita		174
10	Korean (ko) 띠틈		122

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

Language versions of the article "Band gap" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Band gap		171
2	German (de) Bandlücke		88
3	Russian (ru) Запрещённая зона		38
4	Italian (it) Banda proibita		36
5	Spanish (es) Banda prohibida		25
6	Dutch (nl) Verboden zone		25
7	Japanese (ja) バンドギャップ		23
8	Persian (fa) نوار ممنوعه		21
9	Polish (pl) Przerwa energetyczna		21
10	Chinese (zh) 能隙		18

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

Language versions of the article "Band gap" with the highest AI in June 2026

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Band gap		1
2	Arabic (ar) فجوة النطاق		0
3	Catalan (ca) Banda prohibida		0
4	German (de) Bandlücke		0
5	Greek (el) Ενεργειακό χάσμα		0
6	Esperanto (eo) Bendbreĉo		0
7	Spanish (es) Banda prohibida		0
8	Estonian (et) Keelutsoon (füüsika)		0
9	Persian (fa) نوار ممنوعه		0
10	French (fr) Bande interdite		0

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

Language versions of the article "Band gap" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Band gap		592
2	Japanese (ja) バンドギャップ		285
3	German (de) Bandlücke		247
4	French (fr) Bande interdite		217
5	Chinese (zh) 能隙		192
6	Russian (ru) Запрещённая зона		172
7	Persian (fa) نوار ممنوعه		144
8	Korean (ko) 띠틈		134
9	Spanish (es) Banda prohibida		130
10	Italian (it) Banda proibita		116

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic فجوة النطاق
ca	Catalan Banda prohibida
de	German Bandlücke
el	Greek Ενεργειακό χάσμα
en	English Band gap
eo	Esperanto Bendbreĉo
es	Spanish Banda prohibida
et	Estonian Keelutsoon (füüsika)
fa	Persian نوار ممنوعه
fr	French Bande interdite
he	Hebrew פער אסור
hi	Hindi बैण्ड अन्तराल
hu	Hungarian Tiltott sáv
id	Indonesian Celah pita
it	Italian Banda proibita
ja	Japanese バンドギャップ
ko	Korean 띠틈
nl	Dutch Verboden zone
pl	Polish Przerwa energetyczna
pt	Portuguese Banda proibida
ru	Russian Запрещённая зона
simple	Simple English Band gap
sl	Slovenian Prepovedani pas
sv	Swedish Bandgap
th	Thai ช่องว่างพลังงาน
tr	Turkish Bant aralığı
uk	Ukrainian Заборонена зона
uz	Uzbek Taqiqlangan zona
zh	Chinese 能隙

Best Rank

English: #25546 04.2015

Global: #26383 10.2014

Best Rank

English: #3551 01.2003

Global: #2532 01.2004

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