Skills
Physics
Plasma Physics
Simulation
Fortran
Scientific Computing
Optics

At Sandia, Slutz designed light ion-driven inertial fusion targets, including the greenhouse target, which was adopted as the main approach to light ion fusion. He also developed magnetically insulated light ion diodes both theoretically and experimentally, work for which he holds a patent.

Slutz was chief theorist on z-pinch driven dynamic hohlraums, designing and simulating dynamic hohlraums to drive inertial fusion targets which held the record neutron yield for pulsed power driven fusion in 2006. His contributions to the MagLIF (magnetized linear inertial fusion) concept include demonstrating numerically that high-gain is possible with magneto-inertial fusion and the development of auto-magnetizing linear to obtain highly magnetized fuel.