Editing Levitated Dipole Experiment (section)

{{Infobox fusion devices
|name                 = LDX
|fullname             = Levitated Dipole Experiment
|image                = Outside the LDX chamber.png
|imagetitle           = A picture of the LDX chamber on 25 Jan 2010
|type                 = [[Levitated dipole]]
|city                 = [[Cambridge, Massachusetts|Cambridge]]
|state                = [[Massachusetts]]
|country              = [[United States]]
|affiliation          = [[MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center]], [[Columbia University]]
|major_radius         = {{cvt|0.34|m}}
|minor_radius         = <!-- {{cvt|00|m}} -->
|volume               = <!-- {{val|00|ul=m3}} -->
|field                = <!-- {{cvt|00|T}} -->
|heating              = <!-- {{val|00|ul=MW}} -->
|power                = <!-- {{val|00|ul=MW}} -->
|time                 = <!-- {{val|00|ul=s}} -->
|current              = <!-- {{val|00|ul=MA}} -->
|temperature          = <!-- {{val|00|e=6|ul=K}} -->
|construction_date    = 
|operation_start_year = 2004
|operation_end_year   = 2011
|prev                 = 
|next                 = 
|related              = Collisionless Terrella Experiment (CTX)
|website              = {{URL|https://www-internal.psfc.mit.edu/ldx/| The Levitated Dipole eXperiment website}}
|other_links          = 
}}

The '''Levitated Dipole Experiment''' ('''LDX''') was an experiment investigating the generation of [[fusion power]] using the concept of a [[levitated dipole]]. The device was the first of its kind to test the levitated dipole concept and was funded by the [[United States Department of Energy|US Department of Energy]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=Levitated Dipole Experiment|url=https://www-internal.psfc.mit.edu/ldx/|access-date=2020-06-22|website=www-internal.psfc.mit.edu}}</ref>  The machine was also part of a collaboration between the [[MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center]] and [[Columbia University]], where another (non-levitated) dipole experiment, the Collisionless Terrella Experiment (CTX), was located.<ref>{{Cite web|title=CTX|url=http://sites.apam.columbia.edu/CTX/index.html|access-date=2020-06-22|website=sites.apam.columbia.edu}}</ref>

LDX ceased operations in November 2011 when its funding from the Department of Energy ended as resources were being diverted to [[tokamak]] research.<ref name="fundingcut">{{cite web|title=LDX funding canceled|url=http://www.fusenet.eu/node/216|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130117084532/http://fusenet.eu/node/216|archive-date=2013-01-17|access-date=June 27, 2012}}</ref><ref name="fundingcut2">{{cite journal|last=Feder|first=Toni|year=2011|title=US narrows fusion research, joins German stellarator|journal=Physics Today|volume=64|issue=9|pages=30|doi=10.1063/PT.3.1252}}</ref>