Suppression of edge localized modes and improvement of plasma confinement performance by flowing liquid lithium limiter in EAST

G.Z. Zuo 1 , J.S. Hu 1 , R. Maingi 2 , Q. X. Yang 1 , Z. Sun 1 , M. Huang 1 , X. C. Meng 3 , W. Xu 1 , J.G. Li 1 , A. Diallo 2 , R. Lunsford 2 , D. Mansfield 2 , T. Osborne 4 , K. Tritz 5 and EAST team 1 Institue of Plasma Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hefei, Anhui 230031, China 2 Princeton University Plasma Physics Laboratory Princeton, NJ 08543, USA 3 Department of Applied Physics, Hunan University, Changsha 410082, China 4 General Atomics, PO Box 85608, San Diego, CA 92186-5608, USA 5 Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21211, USA