Summary of Significant Accounting Policies, Revenue Recognition (Details) - item	12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2018	Dec. 31, 2017
Revenue recognition
Remaining performance obligation, expected timing for substantial portion of performance obligations	3 months
Remaining performance obligation, expected timing for nearly all performance obligations	1 year
Practical expedient, performance obligation	true
Practical expedient, incremental cost of obtaining contract	true
Percentage of net sales attributable to broadband communication market (as a percent)		6.00%
Minimum
Revenue recognition
Payment terms	30 days
Number of reporting periods that may be extended across for multiple delivery dates	1
Maximum
Revenue recognition
Payment terms	120 days
Percentage of net sales recognized over time	5.00%

The number of reporting periods that may extend across for multiple delivery dates relating to customer contracts.

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- Definition

This element represents the percentage of consolidated sales that are attributable to the broadband communication market.

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The percentage of net sales recognized over time.

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- Definition

Payment terms for contract with customer. Includes, but is not limited to, timing of payment, existence of financing component, variability of consideration and constraint on variable consideration.

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- Definition

Period in which nearly all of the remaining performance obligations are expected to be recognized as revenue, in 'PnYnMnDTnHnMnS' format, for example, 'P1Y5M13D' represents reported fact of one year, five months, and thirteen days.

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Period in which a substantial portion of the remaining performance obligations is expected to be recognized as revenue, in 'PnYnMnDTnHnMnS' format, for example, 'P1Y5M13D' represents reported fact of one year, five months, and thirteen days.

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Line items represent financial concepts included in a table. These concepts are used to disclose reportable information associated with domain members defined in one or many axes to the table.

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- Definition

Indicates (true false) whether practical expedient was elected to recognize incremental cost of obtaining contract as expense when incurred if amortization period would have been one year or less.

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-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 606
-SubTopic 10
-Section 50
-Paragraph 22
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Indicates (true false) whether optional exemption was applied not to disclose amount of transaction price allocated to and explanation of expected timing of revenue recognition for remaining performance obligation, when contract has expected duration of one year or less or right to consideration corresponds directly to performance completed.

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