Band gap

Quality:

Band gap - energy range in a solid where no electron states can exist. Article “Band gap” in Simple English Wikipedia has 54.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 31 references and 7 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “Band gap”, its content was written by 13 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 602 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 16 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 2871 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #1600 in December 2011
• Global: #2532 in January 2004

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #2235 in October 2018
• 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

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

#	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

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

#	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

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

#	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

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

#	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

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

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