The demand of portable electronic devices with multiple function has promoted the improvement of semiconductor technologies in order to increase the number of transistors in a dense integrated circuit. Two-dimensional (2D) materials have been widely developed in the field of semiconductor device fabrication due to their difference between monolayers and multilayers, intriguing excitonic behaviors, tunable carrier mobilities, and flexible properties. However, the growth of large-scale single crystal 2D materials has become a major challenge that should be overcome to achieve further practical applications. This article aims to introduce the recent reports of substrate selection, metal sputtering, and heat treatment methods that have been performed to achieve wafer-scale single crystal 2D materials including graphene, boron nitride, and molybdenum disulfide. In addition, characterization techniques such as optical microscopy and low-energy electron diffraction have also been introduced to further verify the crystal quality of the as-grown monolayer 2D materials.